{"id":2596,"date":"2018-05-06T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2018-05-06T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T16:44:29","slug":"review-astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Review: Astrophysics for People In A Hurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of essays from Neil deGrasse Tyson warmed my heart, but didn&#8217;t delight me.\u00a0 That may say more about me and prejudices &#8211; having read Asimov&#8217;s math &amp; science essays as a kid &#8211; than Tyson&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 He&#8217;s writing about interesting stuff.\u00a0 He&#8217;s engaging.\u00a0 He illustrates difficult concepts with interesting analogies.\u00a0 He taught me things I didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 But I still come off more warmed than excited.<\/p>\n<p>If you &#8211; or your kids &#8211; have any interest in cosmology and astrophysics take a look.\u00a0 If you want to find out if you have an interest in those things, have a look.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of essays from Neil deGrasse Tyson warmed my heart, but didn&#8217;t delight me.\u00a0 That may say more about me and prejudices &#8211; having read Asimov&#8217;s math &amp; science essays as a kid &#8211; than Tyson&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 He&#8217;s writing about interesting stuff.\u00a0 He&#8217;s engaging.\u00a0 He illustrates difficult concepts with interesting analogies.\u00a0 He taught me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}