{"id":16,"date":"2004-12-03T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T05:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-04-01T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T08:54:40","slug":"gene-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/gene-tan-16","title":{"rendered":"Gene Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gene (of National Library Board) gave his usual 'shameless' kind of presentation today for Life Sciences lecturers at my institution. <\/p>\n<p>I expected shocked looks on audience faces - and I was not disappointed. <\/p>\n<p>So why is he so creative? My take is that the National Library has not <strong>demotivated<\/strong>  his enthusiasm for off-the-wall approaches. Most people are creative (and motivated to learn) but the situation they find themselves in destroys that motivation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/gene-tan-16#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene (of National Library Board) gave his usual 'shameless' kind of presentation today for Life Sciences lecturers at my institution. I expected shocked looks on audience faces - and I was not disappointed. So why is he so creative? My take is that the National Library has not demotivated his enthusiasm for off-the-wall approaches. Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}