{"id":1247,"date":"2006-05-26T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2006-05-26T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T18:47:35","slug":"a-puzzling-class-obmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/05\/26\/a-puzzling-class-obmission\/","title":{"rendered":"A Puzzling Class Obmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was an undergraduate at Caltech, which is located in southern California in the city of Pasadena.  This meant that when I went home for the holidays, I would have to drive ten hours north to my home in Yreka, California (by the way, the San Francisco bay area is NOT Northern California!)  Along the way I would often stop to pick up my friend Luis who was going to school in Berkeley.  Even from Berkeley the drive to Yreka is about five hours.  So what would we do during this long drive?  Puzzles.  Riddles.  Brain teasers.  Five hours of brain busting fun!  And on the way back: five more hours of brain busting fun!  Which got me thinking the other day: why aren&#8217;t there classes in puzzles and games?  I mean I have no doubt that doing these teasers, even at my advanced age, is good for my brain.  Actually, come to think of it, <em>especially at my advanced age<\/em>!   It seems kind of strange to me that such an important tool for keeping your brain sharp is so completely (at least as far as I&#8217;ve seen) ignored by higher education.  I&#8217;m not sure what can be done about this puzzling obmission from education, but certainly it would be excellent to teach a class in puzzles, brain teasers, and games.  Plus there is the added benefit that it might increase your chances of getting hired at a hedge fund \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was an undergraduate at Caltech, which is located in southern California in the city of Pasadena. This meant that when I went home for the holidays, I would have to drive ten hours north to my home in Yreka, California (by the way, the San Francisco bay area is NOT Northern California!) Along the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/05\/26\/a-puzzling-class-obmission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Puzzling Class Obmission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}