{"id":3081,"date":"2017-02-18T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2017-02-19T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:11:58","slug":"interview-with-the-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2017\/02\/18\/interview-with-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have read all 346 posts on my Reciprocal Space blog will have no need to read this one. You probably already have a sense of what I do and what I\u2019m like \u2013 my science, my hobbies, my\u00a0hobby-horses, and my foibles.<\/p>\n<p>But on the off chance that you\u2019re new here, or are a faithful reader who just can\u2019t get enough, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreethinktank.com\/interview-professor-stephen-curry\/\">an interview I did with The Free Think Tank<\/a>. I say &#8216;interview&#8217; though this was no Michael Parkinson affair. There was no cosy t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate in comfy armchairs. Instead, it was pure Web2.0 \u2013 they sent me an email with questions, I wrote my replies, and they posted the whole thing online, prefaced by a short introduction and illustrated with a photo taken of me at the EBI last year which refutes the hypothesis that black shirts make me look slim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"View 'Stephen Curry speaking at the EBI in 2016' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sc63\/32154279953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2457\/32154279953_91b0bd0536.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Curry speaking at the EBI in 2016\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em style=\"font-size: 12px\">Does my tum look big in this?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I figured there was no point in doing the interview without giving honest answers, so I tried to be candid, even if I couldn&#8217;t\u00a0prevent myself\u00a0straying from seriousness from time to time. These things are all a matter of taste but I think my interview is <em>definitely<\/em> funnier than the ones with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreethinktank.com\/interview-professor-jim-al-khalili\/\">Jim Al-Khalili<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreethinktank.com\/interview-professor-dame-athene-donald\/\">Athene Donald<\/a>, though probably not as comedic\u00a0as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreethinktank.com\/interview-dr-dean-burnett\/\">Dean Burnett\u2019s<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s more informative or inspirational to younger minds, I will leave for you to decide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have read all 346 posts on my Reciprocal Space blog will have no need to read this one. You probably already have a sense of what I do and what I\u2019m like \u2013 my science, my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2017\/02\/18\/interview-with-the-author\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientific-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}