{"id":36,"date":"2008-06-15T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/dodgeball-101\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T23:59:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T23:59:15","slug":"dodgeball-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/dodgeball-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgeball 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"Dodgeball\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d834236afb53ef00e5535692cd8833 \" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834236afb53ef00e5535692cd8833-120pi\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 90px; height: 112px;\" title=\"Dodgeball\"><br \/>\nI recently spotted a paper (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/journals\/ps\/19_7_inpress\/lin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pdf<\/a>) in the July 2008 issue of the influential journal <em>Psychological Science<\/em> with the following title: &#8220;Objects on a Collision Path With the Observer Demand Attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey,<br \/>\nyou think I should pay attention to that thing headed for my face?<br \/>\nLeave it to scientists to require grant funding to figure out what they<br \/>\nwere supposed to pick up in gym class by like first grade.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, those guys would not stand at chance at <a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/mentalball.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mentalball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Super-seriously, there are some new findings in the paper. Don&#8217;t let the cool kids tell you science is not cool.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently spotted a paper (pdf) in the July 2008 issue of the influential journal Psychological Science with the following title: &#8220;Objects on a Collision Path With the Observer Demand Attention.&#8221; Hey, you think I should pay attention to that thing headed for my face? Leave it to scientists to require grant funding to figure [&hellip;]<\/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-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}