{"id":8293,"date":"2016-07-05T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2016-07-03T12:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T16:19:57","slug":"ted-talk-randall-munroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/07\/05\/ted-talk-randall-munroe\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: Randall Munroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have followed <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">XKCD<\/a> for years. His <a href=\"https:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/\">What If?<\/a> blog (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/21413662-what-if\">book<\/a>) is really good as well. He walks step-by step through the inputs and effects of the questions. The What If for the video below is <a href=\"http:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/1\/\">Relativistic Baseball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Randall Munroe: Comics that ask &quot;what if?&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/randall_munroe_comics_that_ask_what_if\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<p>If the video does not load, then try\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/randall_munroe_comics_that_ask_what_if?language=en\">Randall\u00c2\u00a0Munroe: Comics\u00c2\u00a0That\u00c2\u00a0Ask\u00c2\u00a0What\u00c2\u00a0If?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have followed XKCD for years. His What If? blog (and book) is really good as well. He walks step-by step through the inputs and effects of the questions. The What If for the video below is Relativistic Baseball. If the video does not load, then try\u00c2\u00a0Randall\u00c2\u00a0Munroe: Comics\u00c2\u00a0That\u00c2\u00a0Ask\u00c2\u00a0What\u00c2\u00a0If? &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1210],"tags":[2963,1856,669],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-chem","tag-randall-munroe","tag-ted-talk","tag-xkcd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-29L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}