{"id":502,"date":"2012-01-03T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2012-01-03T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:04:00","slug":"the-problem-with-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December was lost down the gullet of school.  I did manage to go to the enormous AGU conference (&#8220;What do 16000 earth scientists look like?  This is what 16000 earth science posters look like!&#8221;) with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.existencia.org\/pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/poster.pdf\">Poster on the Himalayas<\/a>, and write two papers on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.existencia.org\/pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paper1.pdf\">Optimal Slash-and-Burn Farming<\/a>.  And I started work on a plan to build a spaceship (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.existencia.org\/pro\/?p=22\">plan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/spaceship\/index-old.html\">model<\/a>) and built a <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/spin\/\">spinner<\/a> for risk experiments.  But I am so exhausted from the whole thing.  I wasn&#8217;t done with grading until New Years Eve, so I&#8217;ve just started recovering.<\/p>\n<p>I want to write a rant on how school makes people stupid, because there seems to be no way to not come out of it a mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December was lost down the gullet of school. I did manage to go to the enormous AGU conference (&#8220;What do 16000 earth scientists look like? This is what 16000 earth science posters look like!&#8221;) with a Poster on the Himalayas, and write two papers on Optimal Slash-and-Burn Farming. And I started work on a plan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Problem with School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}