{"id":8374,"date":"2017-03-03T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2017-03-03T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:06:57","slug":"obscure-title-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/03\/obscure-title-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure Title of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23331133-200-universes-that-spawn-cosmic-brains-should-go-on-the-scrapheap\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Reject universes that lead to cosmic brains<\/i><\/a>&#8220;, <span class=\"author\">Anil Ananthaswamy<\/span>, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (18 February 2017). The last paragraph is fun, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf a theory predicts that the overwhelming majority of observers are Boltzmann brains, then that theory is ruled out,\u201d he says. But he thinks Carroll\u2019s argument introduces an unnecessary mystique. \u201cThere is no need for fancy notions like \u2018cognitive instability\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Reject universes that lead to cosmic brains&#8220;, Anil Ananthaswamy, NewScientist (18 February 2017). The last paragraph is fun, too. \u201cIf a theory predicts that the overwhelming majority of observers are Boltzmann brains, then that theory is ruled out,\u201d he says. But he thinks Carroll\u2019s argument introduces an unnecessary mystique. \u201cThere \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/03\/obscure-title-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}