{"id":1314,"date":"2026-06-17T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:54:14","slug":"1314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/2026\/06\/1314\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/popsciencebooks.blogspot.com\/2026\/06\/the-random-universe-andrew-jaffe.html\"><strong>Five-star review<\/strong>  by Brian Clegg of <em>The Random Universe<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Probably the best book I&#8217;ve ever read on what the scientific method really is, how scientists build models, how they deal with randomness, uncertainty and the pitfalls of induction. Engaging stuff.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-star review by Brian Clegg of The Random Universe: Probably the best book I&#8217;ve ever read on what the scientific method really is, how scientists build models, how they deal with randomness, uncertainty and the pitfalls of induction. Engaging stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}