{"id":3461,"date":"2012-08-29T06:56:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2012\/08\/29\/3461"},"modified":"2012-08-29T06:56:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:00:09","slug":"3461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2012\/08\/29\/3461","title":{"rendered":"\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I find it inter\u00adest\u00ading that the guy is not actu\u00adal\u00adly an athe\u00adist, although I can under\u00adstand why they chose the title. Sec\u00adond, I found this bit at the end very insight\u00adful:<br>\u201cQ: Can\u2019t you do a project of this scope at a top uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty like Cal\u00adtech?<\/p>\n<p>Koch: No. Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties are great at pro\u00adduc\u00ading indi\u00advid\u00adual sci\u00aden\u00adtists who are bril\u00adliant at push\u00ading new ideas, but the entire sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic endeav\u00ador is con\u00adstruct\u00aded on the notion of being hyper-com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtive and as dif\u00adfer\u00adent as pos\u00adsi\u00adble from oth\u00ader peo\u00adple. Oth\u00ader\u00adwise, you don\u2019t get a Ph.D. You don\u2019t get tenure. You don\u2019t get grants. You don\u2019t get papers in high pro\u00adfile jour\u00adnals. So it\u2019s very dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to focus an enor\u00admous amount of research in a dis\u00adci\u00adplined way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2012\/08\/on-reconciling-atheism-and-meaning-in-the-universe\/261627\/2\/?single_page=true&amp;google_editors_picks=true&amp;\">On Rec\u00adon\u00adcil\u00ading Athe\u00adism and Mean\u00ading in the Uni\u00adverse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&amp;gadget=a&amp;resize_h=100&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.theatlantic.com%2Fstatic%2Fmt%2Fassets%2Ffood%2FGlacierTHUMB.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\">\u201cRoman\u00adtic reduc\u00adtion\u00adist\u201d neu\u00adro\u00adsci\u00aden\u00adtist Christof Koch dis\u00adcuss\u00ades the search for mean\u00ading in the world of sci\u00adence, and the philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal influ\u00adence of work\u00ading with Fran\u00adcis Crick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I find it inter\u00adest\u00ading that the guy is not actu\u00adal\u00adly an athe\u00adist, although I can under\u00adstand why they chose the title. Sec\u00adond, I found this bit at the end very insight\u00adful:\u201cQ: Can\u2019t you do a project of this scope at a top uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty like Cal\u00adtech? Koch: No. Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties are great at pro\u00adduc\u00ading indi\u00advid\u00adual sci\u00aden\u00adtists \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2012\/08\/29\/3461\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201c\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-asides","tag-google","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Ded-3461","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}