{"id":449,"date":"2012-03-23T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-03-23T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:54:06","slug":"flame-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2012\/03\/23\/flame-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Flame Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Alda and the <a title=\"Center for Communicating Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Communicating Science<\/a> have a challenge for scientists: explain a flame to an 11-year-old. \u00a0Brilliant. \u00a0You can read more about this (and submit your entry) <a title=\"Flame Challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/flamechallenge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As a curious 11-year-old, Alan Alda asked his teacher, \u201cWhat is a flame?\u201d She replied: \u201cIt\u2019s oxidation.\u201d Alda went on to win fame as an actor and writer, became an advocate for clear communication of science, and helped found the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. He never stopped being curious, and he never forgot how disappointing that non-answer answer was.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alda&#8217;s guest editorial for <em><a title=\"Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a><\/em>, wherein he issued his challenge, is also well worth reading. \u00a0This can also be found at the Flame Challenge site.<\/p>\n<p>Do it for yourself. \u00a0Do it for the kids. \u00a0Do it for Hawkeye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science have a challenge for scientists: explain a flame to an 11-year-old. \u00a0Brilliant. \u00a0You can read more about this (and submit your entry) here. &#8220;As a curious 11-year-old, Alan Alda asked his teacher, \u201cWhat is a flame?\u201d She replied: \u201cIt\u2019s oxidation.\u201d Alda went on to win fame as&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2012\/03\/23\/flame-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}