{"id":362,"date":"2010-06-24T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/06\/24\/on_being_dull\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:21:14","slug":"on_being_dull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/06\/24\/on_being_dull\/","title":{"rendered":"On being dull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, Web of Stories has just uploaded a load of videos of one of the most notorious of all Nobel Prize winners, <a href=\"http:\/\/webofstories.com\/play\/51763\">Jim Watson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><p>\nIn this video (there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/webofstories.com\/play\/51763\">transcript<\/a>), Watson talks about <em>The Double Helix<\/em> and how he wanted it to be a classic; which he tried to achieve by saying things like &#8216;scientists are dull.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, you can&#8217;t be filled with doubts when you might be eaten by a crocodile the next day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSpeak for yourself, Jimbo.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s an amusing bit about Cambridge being beautiful but hung up on honoring people who are still alive, and how Oxford just gets on with it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I&#8217;m much more at ease in Oxford which doesn&#8217;t identify me, doesn&#8217;t have to honor me and, trouble is, Oxford&#8217;s not quite as beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nGo take a look. <a href=\"http:\/\/webofstories.com\/play\/51727\">Fascinating stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, Web of Stories has just uploaded a load of videos of one of the most notorious of all Nobel Prize winners, Jim Watson. In this video (there&#8217;s also a transcript), Watson talks about The Double &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/06\/24\/on_being_dull\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}