{"id":287,"date":"2006-11-14T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/on-the-limits-of-science\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T13:51:56","slug":"on-the-limits-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/on-the-limits-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"On the limits of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard of the <a href=\"The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump\">Wikipedia Knowledge Dump<\/a>? With the headline &#8220;WikiDumper: The Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects. One man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trash is another man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s treasure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dr. Cliff Pickover collects the best entries. For example you can read about the <em>Beard Theorem<\/em> that suggests that the size of one&#8217;s beard has a direct correlation to the radicality of a person&#8217;s socialist views. The site is as good as the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/10\/06\/ig-nobel-diary\/\">Ig Noble<\/a>, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard of the Wikipedia Knowledge Dump? With the headline &#8220;WikiDumper: The Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects. One man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trash is another man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s treasure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dr. Cliff Pickover collects the best entries. For example you can read about the Beard Theorem that suggests that the size of one&#8217;s beard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/on-the-limits-of-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the limits of science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,161,160,159,158],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-fun-nothing-else","tag-wikidumper","tag-one_man","tag-socialist","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}