{"id":15213,"date":"2021-08-04T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:34:13","slug":"the-art-of-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/04\/the-art-of-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Art of Logic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I quite enjoyed this Talk at Google by mathematician &amp; concert pianist (what a slouch!) Eugenia Cheng. <em>Wait, wait, don&#8217;t go<\/em>\u2014I swear it&#8217;s infinitely more down-to-earth &amp; charming than one would think. Among other things she uses (extremely accessible math (er, &#8220;maths&#8221; &#x1f644;) to illuminate touchy subjects like societal privilege, diet, and exercise. It&#8217;s also available in <a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+OSrIPkjhM\">podcast<\/a> form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Art of Logic | Eugenia Cheng | Talks at Google\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YHZKX0H6cUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. With her new book &#8220;The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn&#8217;t&#8221;, Eugenia has set out to show how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly &#8211; and know when politicians and companies are trying to mislead us. This talk, like the book, is filled with useful real-life examples of logic and illogic at work and an essential guide to decoding modern life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I quite enjoyed this Talk at Google by mathematician &amp; concert pianist (what a slouch!) Eugenia Cheng. Wait, wait, don&#8217;t go\u2014I swear it&#8217;s infinitely more down-to-earth &amp; charming than one would think. Among other things she uses (extremely accessible math (er, &#8220;maths&#8221; &#x1f644;) to illuminate touchy subjects like societal privilege, diet, and exercise. It&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15214,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}