{"id":2210,"date":"2017-02-13T02:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2017-02-13T02:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:47:45","slug":"aeon-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/aeon-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeon Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2211\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NationalGeographic_1160360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2211\" class=\"wp-image-2211 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NationalGeographic_1160360.jpg\" alt=\"NationalGeographic_1160360\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NationalGeographic_1160360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NationalGeographic_1160360-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cold and calculating. A Dorid nudibranch (Tritoniella belli) in Antarctica. Photo by Norbert Wu\/Minden\/National Geographic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sea slugs, sound waves, falcons, and electrons all enact amazingly complex pieces of mathematics. In the fibers of their being and their ongoing activities they are mathematicians-by-practice. <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/theres-more-maths-in-slugs-and-corals-than-we-can-think-of\">Here<\/a> in <em>Aeon<\/em> magazine, IFF director Margaret Wertheim explores the idea that math may be seen as a kind of performance akin to playing music.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea slugs, sound waves, falcons, and electrons all enact amazingly complex pieces of mathematics. In the fibers of their being and their ongoing activities they are mathematicians-by-practice. Here in Aeon magazine, IFF director Margaret Wertheim explores the idea that math may be seen as a kind of performance akin to playing music. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}