{"id":179,"date":"2014-09-09T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T01:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:38:37","slug":"what-makes-science-newsworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/2014\/09\/09\/what-makes-science-newsworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes science newsworthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Question posed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/121217\/121217-5869304801879150593\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What makes science newsworthy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>My comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For specialists: a new discovery or confirmed hypothesis. Eg inflation marker, fine details of element 117.<\/p>\n<p>For the couch scientist &amp; inquiring minds: anything written well enough to be interesting.<br \/>\nEg practical uses of graphene, quantum mechanics, &#8220;Cosmos&#8221;, Neanderthals vs Cromags.<\/p>\n<p>For the non scientist: discoveries and developments that have the potential to affect them directly. Eg faster car, climate change, room temp super conductors, fusion power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Question posed on LinkedIn. &#8220;What makes science newsworthy?&#8221; My comment: For specialists: a new discovery or confirmed hypothesis. Eg inflation marker, fine details of element 117. For the couch scientist &amp; inquiring minds: anything written well enough to be interesting. Eg practical uses of graphene, quantum mechanics, &#8220;Cosmos&#8221;, Neanderthals vs Cromags. For the non [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-provided","tag-media-reporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}