{"id":3761,"date":"2016-02-12T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2016-02-15T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:49:48","slug":"freethought-fridayreads-the-magic-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/02\/12\/freethought-fridayreads-the-magic-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Freethought #FridayReads \u2013 The Magic of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Darwin Day and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/feb\/12\/richard-dawkins-has-stroke-on-eve-of-australia-and-new-zealand-tour\" target=\"_blank\">in support of Professor Dawkins<\/a>, today I&#8217;d like to\u00a0signal boost\u00a0a book which helps teach evolutionary theory and other necessary scientific ideas to\u00a0children: <em>The Magic of Reality. <\/em>Specifically, I&#8217;d like to plug the book in the form of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicofrealityapp.com\/\">interactive iPad\u00a0app<\/a>. Here is what it looks like in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magic of Reality app demo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHu5_Zc5ChU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">After this lesson in relative planet size (not to orbital scale, naturally) the kids started playing with the built-in planetary orbit simulator. So cool. The complete text of the book and some of the audio narration is packed in there as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As to the target age group, my teenager says it was fun to start\u00a0toying around with the app around 8 or 9 years old, and that he started to really understand the material after just a couple years. \u00a0Nowadays, he is taking pre-AP bio, and finds himself significantly more comfortable with the source material than his peers who didn&#8217;t grow up with Dawkins teaching Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>Share and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Darwin Day and in support of Professor Dawkins, today I&#8217;d like to\u00a0signal boost\u00a0a book which helps teach&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friday-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}