{"id":91393,"date":"2025-08-12T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91393"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:00:34","slug":"derek-lowe-writes-on-science-as-an-endeavor-its-important-to-never-lose-sight-of-its-fundamental-strangeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91393","title":{"rendered":"Derek Lowe writes on science as an endeavor: \u201cit\u2019s important to never lose sight of its fundamental strangeness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/praise-weirdness\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/praise-weirdness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a longer essay that covers my own thoughts fairly closely. Magic and religion, by comparison, are a much better fit to human cognition and psychology. <\/p>\n<p>Science would never happen if religion made useful predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/praise-weirdness It\u2019s a longer essay that covers my own thoughts fairly closely. Magic and religion, by comparison, are a much better fit to human cognition and psychology. Science would never happen if religion made useful predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91394,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91393\/revisions\/91394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}