{"id":4372,"date":"2019-08-13T20:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:46:33","slug":"in-which-i-realize-i-am-part-of-a-select-sci-art-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2019\/08\/13\/in-which-i-realize-i-am-part-of-a-select-sci-art-group\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I realize I am part of a select sci\/art group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4373\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2019\/08\/13\/in-which-i-realize-i-am-part-of-a-select-sci-art-group\/fed\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4373\" src=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2019\/08\/FED-600x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"202\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2019\/08\/FED-600x202.jpg 600w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2019\/08\/FED-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2019\/08\/FED.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me talking about the antimicrobial resistance crisis back in 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t written here for a gazillion years &#8211; life is just too full-on. But I found out an amusing fact that I wanted to share. I&#8217;m not sure how it came up, but my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/whats-on\/events-2019\/august\/public-fiction-lab-august-2019\">Fiction Lab<\/a> contact at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/\">the Royal Institution<\/a> recently told me he&#8217;d done a little digging and found out that only three published fiction authors had ever given a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigb.org\/blog\/2014\/february\/unheard-history-of-the-friday-evening-discourses\">Friday Evening Discourse<\/a> there. <\/p>\n<p>These were:<\/p>\n<p>1. H.G. Wells<br \/>\n2. Ian McEwan<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>3. Me<\/p>\n<p>!<\/p>\n<p>PS. You can see my talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nmGaq9DsUfo\">here<\/a>. I also <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2015\/01\/04\/in-which-a-tale-of-antibiotics-takes-form\/\">wrote about the terrifying run-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written here for a gazillion years &#8211; life is just too full-on. But I found out an amusing fact that I wanted to share. I&#8217;m not sure how it came up, but my Fiction Lab contact at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2019\/08\/13\/in-which-i-realize-i-am-part-of-a-select-sci-art-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lablit","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}