{"id":24414,"date":"2021-01-27T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-curuios-higher-and-lower-notes-you-hear-from-tapping-a-coffee-mug#id28920"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:59:00","slug":"who-am-i-to-jolt-them-out-of-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/who-am-i-to-jolt-them-out-of-complacency\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Who am I to jolt them out of complacency?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9N1aYy8Q9jo?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda explains the curious higher and lower notes you hear from tapping a coffee mug. From a good interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127\/\">in Quanta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>I&rsquo;m trying to jolt myself out of my complacency. When I share, I just want to share with people. I hope that they&rsquo;ll like it, but I&rsquo;m not trying to educate them, and I don&rsquo;t think people are complacent. People are struggling in their own ways and making efforts and trying to improve. Who am I to jolt them out of complacency? But I like to be surprised, and I like to be proved wrong. Not in public, because that&rsquo;s humiliating. But in private, I really like to be proved wrong, because that means that afterward, if I come to terms with it when the dust settles, I am ever so slightly smarter than before, and I feel better that way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/thekidshouldseethis.com\/post\/how-many-pitches-does-your-mug-make-and-why\">TKSST<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-curuios-higher-and-lower-notes-you-hear-from-tapping-a-coffee-mug\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda explains the curious higher and lower notes you hear from tapping a coffee mug. From a good interview in Quanta:<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m trying to jolt myself out of my complacency. When I share, I j&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24415,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414\/revisions\/24415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}