{"id":686,"date":"2013-02-28T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2013-04-24T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:24:15","slug":"161-sir-harry-kroto-the-state-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"161 &#8211; Sir Harry Kroto &#8211; The State of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode, I talk to Sir Harold Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-discovery of carbon-60, or Buckminsterfullerine. <\/p>\n<p>We continue the discussion from episode 160, and talk about<br \/>\n&#8211; Stereotypes of scientists<br \/>\n&#8211; Science and natural philosophy<br \/>\n&#8211; What are non-science people interested in?<br \/>\n&#8211; Kids as scientists<br \/>\n&#8211; Meccano and engineering<br \/>\n&#8211; Some of the issues children face today and the barriers to science<br \/>\n&#8211; Science and funding<\/p>\n<p>This is part 2 of a 2 part interview.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s listener of the episode is Mulia Marzuki, from Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM161-HarryKroto.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 161<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode, I talk to Sir Harold Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-discovery of carbon-60, or Buckminsterfullerine. We continue the discussion from episode 160, and talk about &#8211; Stereotypes of scientists &#8211; Science and natural philosophy &#8211; What are non-science people interested in? &#8211; Kids as scientists &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,16,341,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}