{"id":1525,"date":"2015-11-17T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:10:52","slug":"randall-munroe-ted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/2015\/11\/17\/randall-munroe-ted-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall Munroe TED Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/files\/2015\/11\/comics-what-if-randall-munroe-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1530 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/files\/2015\/11\/comics-what-if-randall-munroe-01-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"comics-what-if-randall-munroe-01\" width=\"147\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/files\/2015\/11\/comics-what-if-randall-munroe-01-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/files\/2015\/11\/comics-what-if-randall-munroe-01.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0A popular non-fiction book this year has been\u00a0<em>What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions<\/em>, by Randall Munroe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/randall_munroe_comics_that_ask_what_if?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2015-11-15&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=bottom_right_button#t-8535\" target=\"_blank\">He did a TED Talk<\/a> last year on comics that ask &#8220;what if&#8230;&#8221;. It&#8217;s interesting to watch him talk about the process of coming to a serious scientific answer when people pose these absurd questions. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A popular non-fiction book this year has been\u00a0What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by Randall Munroe. He did a TED Talk last year on comics that ask &#8220;what if&#8230;&#8221;. It&#8217;s interesting to watch him talk about the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/2015\/11\/17\/randall-munroe-ted-talk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}