{"id":293,"date":"2008-12-22T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T13:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-12-22T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T13:25:21","slug":"cnn-and-math-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"CNN and math literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not what I usually expect to see when I glance at CNN:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_294\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294\" title=\"CNN and integrals\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cnneq.jpg\" alt=\"CNN and integrals\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cnneq.jpg 384w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cnneq-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNN and integrals<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It almost makes me believe that we live in a mathematically literate society. If only!<\/p>\n<p>The topic, by the way, was a British Medical Journal paper on brain damage caused by a dancing style called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Head_banging\">headbanging<\/a>. I must say, even though I grew up during the disco era, I never much liked dancing. But, for what it&#8217;s worth, I not only know how to do integrals, I actually enjoy doing them&#8230;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=293' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not what I usually expect to see when I glance at CNN: It almost makes me believe that we live in a mathematically literate society. If only! The topic, by the way, was a British Medical Journal paper on brain damage caused by a dancing style called headbanging. I must say, even though <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=293' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,31,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-mathematics","category-pop-culture","category-television","category-29-id","category-30-id","category-31-id","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}