{"id":1039,"date":"2009-10-21T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:22:46","slug":"music-of-the-spheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/music-of-the-spheres","title":{"rendered":"Music of the Spheres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XGK84Poeynk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XGK84Poeynk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is by <a title=\"Symphony of Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symphonyofscience.com.\/\" target=\"_blank\">the same guy<\/a> as <a title=\"A Glorious Dawn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">A Glorious Dawn<\/a>, John Boswell. Not only are these beautiful and sincere, but they address something that <a title=\"You should probably listen to this all the way through anyway.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Krulwich<\/a> said in a <a title=\"He had a cold at the time.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wnyc.org\/radiolab\/2008\/07\/29\/tell-me-a-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">graduation speech<\/a> at the California Institute of Technology: we have to learn to tell stories about science. The underlying logical beauty of the process is not enough. Because there are other people with better stories, and the stories are what get people to think, to accept, to challenge, and ultimately to act.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like we can have beautiful music about science, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is by the same guy as A Glorious Dawn, John Boswell. Not only are these beautiful and sincere, but they address something that Robert Krulwich said in a graduation speech at the California Institute of Technology: we have to learn to tell stories about science. The underlying logical beauty of the process is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/music-of-the-spheres\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music of the Spheres&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}