{"id":69,"date":"2008-10-24T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lookingatnothing.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-01-04T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:04:33","slug":"too-difficult-to-present-nicely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/69","title":{"rendered":"Too difficult to present nicely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new TED presentation out there. And whilst this one is not necessarily superb (The presenter is a little out of touch with the audience, and apparently rather nervous: his jokes do not hit the mark), what is very impressive is the way he presents his topic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nThe TED presentation in question is this one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Garrett Lisi at TED\">here<\/a>. Go ahead, sit out the first minutes, and start enjoying. He shows a model of particle physics theory that would indicate the existence of extra particles. Now normally, this would be presented with an amazing amount of complex mathematics. Here, however, it is shown as smooth graphics, as he takes you from one-dimensional particle theory to an eight-dimensional graphical display, showing clearly missing particles as &#8220;gaps&#8221; in the plots.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf anyone <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">ever<\/span>\u00a0comes to me in the future complaining that they cannot present their topic in a way that makes it understandable to all, I will point them here and go &#8220;oh reeeeaaallly&#8221;. Be forewarned. It has now been demonstrated that even theoreticians working in the most abstract field can make their topic (partially) understood using some well-chosen graphics, and a good story to support it with.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There is a new TED presentation out there. And whilst this one is not necessarily superb (The presenter is a little out of touch with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/69\" title=\"Too difficult to present nicely?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[56,57],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preteach","tag-presentations","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gZ2v-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}