{"id":745,"date":"2015-09-03T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:29:04","slug":"174-dr-zara-dennis-from-sports-science-and-geophysics-to-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"174 &#8211; Dr Zara Dennis &#8211; From Sports Science and Geophysics to Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen in as Dr Zara Dennis talks to us about her journey from sports science to  teaching high school physics.  In particular, Zara talks to us about:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Her interest in geophysics and outer space<br \/>\n&#8211; Working with lasers<br \/>\n&#8211; What led to doing her PhD<br \/>\n&#8211; PhD that looked at electromagnetic to find gold mineralisation<br \/>\n&#8211; An explanation of the experiments Zara used for her research<br \/>\n&#8211; What other uses could these techniques be used for?<br \/>\n&#8211; Life as a teacher<br \/>\n&#8211; How cool science is!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/2iw6atd.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM174-ZaraDennis.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 174<\/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>Listen in as Dr Zara Dennis talks to us about her journey from sports science to teaching high school physics. In particular, Zara talks to us about: &#8211; Her interest in geophysics and outer space &#8211; Working with lasers &#8211; What led to doing her PhD &#8211; PhD that looked at electromagnetic to find gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}