{"id":2238,"date":"2014-11-24T01:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2014-11-24T01:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:08:34","slug":"answering-scientific-questions-in-plain-language-with-ask-smithsonian-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/answering-scientific-questions-in-plain-language-with-ask-smithsonian-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering scientific questions in plain language with &#8216;Ask Smithsonian&#8217; video&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered if lightning can strike twice or if Stress can Turn Your Hair Gray? A lot of us have questions that usually require a whole bunch of scientific language to answer and while that works for adults it is usually not the most useful thing when trying to explain things to a kid. Keeping that thought in mind the Smithsonian has created short videos (about a min in length) that answer such questions in plain English.  Check them out at the <a href='http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/videos\/category\/ask-smithsonian\/?no-ist'>Ask Smithsonian video <\/a> archive.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is that you can also submit your questions to the site and if selected a video with the answer would be uploaded to the site. Some of the questions that are currently answered on the site are:<\/p>\n<p><i>Ask Smithsonian: Does Chicken Soup Really Help With a Cold?<br \/>\nAsk Smithsonian: How Do Noise-Canceling Headphones Work?<br \/>\nAsk Smithsonian: Why Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t People Smile in Old Photographs?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/ask-smithsonian-videos-answer-scientific-questions-in-1661584527\">lifehacker.com<\/a> for this great link.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered if lightning can strike twice or if Stress can Turn Your Hair Gray? A lot of us have questions that usually require a whole bunch of scientific language to answer and while that works for adults it is usually not the most useful thing when trying to explain things to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}