{"id":90,"date":"2012-03-14T22:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T22:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/?p=90"},"modified":"2012-03-14T22:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T22:45:18","slug":"peering-through-the-eye-piece-of-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/2012\/03\/14\/peering-through-the-eye-piece-of-randomness\/","title":{"rendered":"Peering through the Eye Piece of Randomness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbnlib.com\/preview\/0375424040\/The-Drunkard-s-Walk-How-Randomness-Rules-Our-Lives\">http:\/\/www.isbnlib.com\/preview\/0375424040\/The-Drunkard-s-Walk-How-Randomness-Rules-Our-Lives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weeks reading is over randomness and pure chance, wow didn&#8217;t really expect that but oh well. Usually, people try to figure out how things work and that everything has a solution to it or a reason for it to happen. However, in this book, it talks about how things cannot be explained, especially events that happen out of luck. I got to say, I was actually entertained by this book for a bit. I mean I was reading a couple of pages and one part of the book really caught my attention. It was the part where they were discussing about the flight instructor and his pilots. In that part, the author break down how people think that praising a person for doing good would cause them to do bad the next day while scolding the person or punishing them would cause them to do better. But, what it all comes down to is actually pure luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.isbnlib.com\/preview\/0375424040\/The-Drunkard-s-Walk-How-Randomness-Rules-Our-Lives This weeks reading is over randomness and pure chance, wow didn&#8217;t really expect that but oh well. Usually, people try to figure out how things work and that everything has a solution to it or a reason for it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/2012\/03\/14\/peering-through-the-eye-piece-of-randomness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/interdepartmentalhonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}