{"id":656094,"date":"2010-02-05T05:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2010-02-05T05:51:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T10:51:23","slug":"off-to-houston-d-c-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656094","title":{"rendered":"Off to Houston, D.C. | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out for a series of <em>Unscientific America<\/em> talks this Friday\/Monday, as long as the weather permits for the second leg of the journey:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Houston, TX<br \/>\nLunch Discussion and Book Signing<br \/>\nFriday, February 5<br \/>\n12:30 PM\u20132:30 PM<br \/>\nEvent sponsored by the Science and Technology Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy<br \/>\nDore Commons<br \/>\nJames A. Baker Hall<br \/>\nRice University<br \/>\nHouston, TX<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.bakerinstitute.org\/events\/unscientific-america-how-scientific-illiteracy-threatens-our-fu\">Web site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda, MD<br \/>\nSpeech at the National Institutes of Health<br \/>\nMonday, February 8<br \/>\n10:00 AM\u201311:00 AM<br \/>\nNational Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine<br \/>\nNIH Clinical Research Center<br \/>\n(Building 10)<br \/>\nBethesda, MD<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/nccam.nih.gov\/research\/consultservice\/lecture.htm\">Web site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stop in if you live\/are going to be in these areas&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.:<\/strong> I am revising the talk to contain a bit more ethos and pathos, because like many science-focused or intellectual talks, it currently has too much logos. Jokes are still good though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nwph3jFV0Vk9lrlbHkziNDljo94\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nwph3jFV0Vk9lrlbHkziNDljo94\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nwph3jFV0Vk9lrlbHkziNDljo94\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nwph3jFV0Vk9lrlbHkziNDljo94\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/mR8BjI0PkMs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out for a series of Unscientific America talks this Friday\/Monday, as long as the weather permits for the second leg of the journey: Houston, TX Lunch Discussion and Book Signing Friday, February 5 12:30 PM\u20132:30 PM Event sponsored by the Science and Technology Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KGa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}