{"id":1191,"date":"2019-06-16T22:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofadeve.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T09:27:38","slug":"why-truly-innovative-science-demands-a-leap-into-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While studying for his Ph.D in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for scientists to stop thinking of research as a direct line from question to answer, but as something more creative. It&#8217;s a message that will resonate, no matter what your field.<\/p>\n<p>Uri Alon studies how cells work, using an array of tools (including improv theater) to understand the biological circuits that perform the functions of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/uri_alon_why_truly_innovative_science_demands_a_leap_into_the_unknown?utm_source=newsletter_daily&#038;utm_campaign=daily&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=button__2014-06-12\" target=\"_blank\">>> Watch Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While studying for his Ph.D in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for scientists to stop thinking of research as a direct line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/urialon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jq4Y-jd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofadeve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}