{"id":6575,"date":"2011-10-14T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2011-12-05T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T11:38:47","slug":"friday-math-movie-symphony-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-symphony-of-science-6575","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Symphony of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full name of today's video is: \"Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)\".<\/p>\n<p>I'm still trying to get a handle on how big the \"anti-science religion\" is. Richard Dawkins is worried enough to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Enemies_of_Reason\">whole TV series<\/a> about how religion, mysticism and superstition are beginning to take over the debate. <\/p>\n<p>It's clear from the climate change fiasco that there are powerful forces operating against scientific endeavor. But then again, it was like that in the Dark Ages, too.<\/p>\n<p>Does this video change your world view? It's certainly pressing some buttons - over 1.7 million people have viewed it at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Cd36WJ79z4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>(One could argue the <a href=\"http:\/\/symphonyofscience.com\/\">Symphony of Science<\/a> project is approaching a religion, but that's another matter...)<\/p>\n<p>You can see more Symphony of Science videos in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/melodysheep\">melodysheep's YouTube channel<\/a>. Don't miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f0vlrTVC2tQ\">Children of Africa<\/a>, by Alice Roberts and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-symphony-of-science-6575#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-symphony-of-science-6575\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/10\/poetry-reality.jpg\" title=\"The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt's a sad state of affairs when we need to write anthems for science.<\/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":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575"}],"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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}