{"id":1735,"date":"2007-11-29T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:04:33","slug":"physics-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/29\/physics-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics in the New York Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One good reason to subscribe to the New York Times is that they have what I consider far above average science reporting for a newspaper.  Their Tuesday Science Times section is a must read for me pretty much every week.  Over the last three weeks I&#8217;ve been keeping track of the stories that were run in Tuesday&#8217;s science section.  By my count, three weeks ago there were two stories which might be considered as articles about physics, one of which the categorization is a stretch (swarm models have been studied by physicists, but I doubt many physicists would consider this physics), and since two weeks ago, not a single article on physics has appeared.  So the question is whether the reason for this is (1) not much is happening in physics that is newsworthy, (2) physics is, after many years of being hailed as achieving great public relations, losing its public relations touch, (3) biology and medicine are much more important, interesting, and newsworthy, (4) the New York Times hates physics, physicists, and even physicist&#8217;s children, or (5) none of the above?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBy my count there have been at least a few subjects which I think would have made fine articles.  Just off the top of my head I&#8217;d count negative refraction materials that &#8220;trap rainbows&#8221;, Berry&#8217;s phases in solid-state qubits, and UK withdrawing from Gemini.  So it doesn&#8217;t gel in my head that there aren&#8217;t more physics related stories out there to be reported on, but of course this is a use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=88\">extralusionary intelligence<\/a> of the highest order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One good reason to subscribe to the New York Times is that they have what I consider far above average science reporting for a newspaper. Their Tuesday Science Times section is a must read for me pretty much every week. Over the last three weeks I&#8217;ve been keeping track of the stories that were run &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/29\/physics-in-the-new-york-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physics in the New York Times?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"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":[28,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extralusionary-intelligence","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}