{"id":388769,"date":"2010-02-27T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=39696"},"modified":"2010-02-27T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:00:36","slug":"warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388769","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Your reality is out of date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of knowledge, they generally think of two sorts of facts: facts that don\u2019t change, like the height of Mount Everest or the capital of the United States, and facts that fluctuate constantly, like the temperature or the stock market close.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>But in between there is a third kind: facts that change slowly. These are facts which we tend to view as fixed, but which shift over the course of a lifetime. For example: What is Earth\u2019s population? I remember learning 6 billion, and some of you might even have learned 5 billion. Well, it turns out it\u2019s about 6.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Samuel Arbesman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/02\/28\/warning_your_reality_is_out_of_date\/\">To read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of knowledge, they generally think of two sorts of facts: facts that don\u2019t change, like the height of Mount Everest or the capital of the United States, and facts that fluctuate constantly, like the temperature or the stock market close. But in between there is a third kind: facts that change slowly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}