{"id":4864,"date":"2012-02-07T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:58:57","slug":"talking-science-at-balticon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4864","title":{"rendered":"Talking Science at Balticon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I decided to focus more on science outreach, especially giving science talks to general audiences. As part of that, I&#8217;ll be attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balticon.org\/\">Balticon<\/a>, the long-standing SFF convention in Baltimore. I&#8217;m especially excited because I&#8217;m getting to interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1997\/phillips-autobio.html\">Bill Phillips<\/a>. In 1997 Dr. Phillips won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on using lasers to cool and trap neutral atoms. That work was fundamental to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.ncsu.edu\/jet\/theses\/index.html\">my thesis research<\/a> that led to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/298\/5601\/2179.abstract\">paper in <i>Science<\/i><\/a>. Without Dr. Phillips&#8217;s work, my professional life wouldn&#8217;t be what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, I&#8217;m excited.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/disasterpiecetheatre.com\/\">podcasting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.dragoncontv.com\/\">filmmaking<\/a> along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o\">science<\/a>. If you&#8217;re going to be in Baltimore on Memorial Day weekend, stop by and say hi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I decided to focus more on science outreach, especially giving science talks to general audiences. As part of that, I&#8217;ll be attending Balticon, the long-standing SFF convention in Baltimore. I&#8217;m especially excited because I&#8217;m getting to interview Bill Phillips. In 1997 Dr. Phillips won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talking Science at Balticon 2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}