{"id":940,"date":"2011-12-15T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-12-15T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:02:18","slug":"discover-the-black-boxs-secrets-on-talking-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/15\/discover-the-black-boxs-secrets-on-talking-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the Black Box&#8217;s Secrets on Talking Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"Talking Science\" src=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-12-at-5.05.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"307\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kelly Sturner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our latest post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/12\/discover-the-black-box%E2%80%99s-secrets-scientific-inquiry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Science<\/a>, a project of the radio program NPR&#8217;s Science Friday, looks into how scientific inquiry works and the mathematical basis for why it&#8217;s so powerful. Adapted with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/nimbios.org\/education\/biologyinabox\" target=\"_blank\">Biology in a Box<\/a>, this hands-on activity is geared toward 9th-12th grade levels and covers probability and mathematics. In the exercise, students work in groups using the hypothesis-driven scientific method to decide on the possible identity of two mystery objects (from a set of 11 potential objects) in a \u201cBlack Box.\u201d More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/category\/biology-by-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biology by Numbers<\/a> posts can be found at the Talking Science website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest post on Talking Science, a project of the radio program NPR&#8217;s Science Friday, looks into how scientific inquiry works and the mathematical basis for why it&#8217;s so powerful. Adapted with permission from Biology in a Box, this hands-on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/15\/discover-the-black-boxs-secrets-on-talking-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,28],"tags":[102,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}