{"id":287,"date":"2008-03-21T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-03-21T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:04:24","slug":"knowledge-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/planck.jpg\" title=\"Max Planck would eat no franks\u2026\" alt=\"Max Planck would eat no franks\u2026\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, Friday, March 21, 2pm, the guest on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~humanistic\/faculty\/lightman.html\"  target=\"_blank\">Alan Lightman<\/a>, author of the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375421686\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original Papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375421686\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Discoveries\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/41c75ejx7fl_ss500_.jpg\" title=\"The Discoveries\" alt=\"The Discoveries\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>This November 2005 re-broadcast looks at how insight has influenced the discovery process in science, but, even more, why the last century&#8217;s greatest scientific discoveries, like those of Max Planck, above, formulator of quantum theory, are actually considered great.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis native Alan Lightman received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology. His novels include <em>Einstein\u2019s Dreams<\/em>, <em>Good Benito<\/em>, <em>The Diagnosis<\/em>, and <em>Reunion<\/em>. He lives in Massachusetts, and  is an adjunct professor of humanities at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re outside of the New York tri-state, you can check NONFICTION via <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\"  target=\"_blank\">our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\"  target=\"_blank\">our archive<\/a> for up to two weeks after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Friday, March 21, 2pm, the guest on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, will be Alan Lightman, author of the book, The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original Papers. This November 2005 re-broadcast looks at how insight has influenced the discovery process in science, but, even more, why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,47,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}