{"id":855,"date":"2009-06-23T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/23\/our-astronmer-in-the-ny-times-today\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T15:03:00","slug":"our-astronmer-in-the-ny-times-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/23\/our-astronmer-in-the-ny-times-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Our&quot; astronmer in the NY Times today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in, from SLU physicist Aileen O&#8217;Donoghue. She&#8217;s been on sabbatical this year, but has been a semi-regular during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour for years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,<br \/>When I was observing at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in March, George Johnson spent an evening with us and his article is in tomorrow&#8217;s NY Times Science section.<br \/>Cheers,<br \/>Aileen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/23\/science\/23Vatican.html?_r=1&amp;ref=science\">TODAY&#8217;s<\/a> NYT. Here&#8217;s a nice quote from Aileen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s the real sky that matters,\u201d she says. She describes how she makes her undergraduate students go outside and look at the Big Dipper at different times of the night. \u201cThey come back and say, \u2018It moves!\u2019 \u201d \u2014 words Galileo legendarily muttered after he was forced to recant. \u201cYou can tell students that the Earth rotates, but until they see that with their eyeballs, they\u2019re not doing science,\u201d she said. \u201cYou might as well be teaching theology and Scripture.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the Times gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sky-Not-Ceiling-Astronomers-Faith\/dp\/1570757038\">Aileen&#8217;s memoir<\/a>, \u201cThe Sky Is Not a Ceiling: An Astronomer\u2019s Faith,\u201d a nice plug too. As do we here in The Inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in, from SLU physicist Aileen O&#8217;Donoghue. She&#8217;s been on sabbatical this year, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[4819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}