{"id":2472,"date":"2013-07-31T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13f13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2474 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13f13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"asimov\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The pione"},"modified":"2013-08-19T01:32:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:32:53","slug":"asimov-on-speculation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-science\/asimov-on-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Asimov on Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2474 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"asimov\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov-366x490.jpg 366w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/07\/asimov.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>The pioneering science-fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, also wrote insightful non-fiction essays about science over the course of his lengthy career. \u00a0A number of these short reflective pieces have been collected into an anthology,\u00a0<em>The Roving Mind<\/em>. In one essay Asimov discusses the role of speculation in scientific inquiry and the responsibility of the non-specialist to recognize and distinguish between profitable scientific speculation and misleading pseudoscience. \u00a0Read the short essay and use it as a springboard for discussion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.acu.edu\/users\/dicksonk\/web\/Cornerstone\/Asimov-Speculation.pdf\">Isaac Asimov, &#8220;Speculation&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a>(<em>Note: myACU login required to access reading)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Discussion Questions:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">What advice does Asimov give for testing the potential value of scientific speculation?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>How does he define pseudoscience?<\/li>\n<li>Why, according to Asimov, is science fiction not pseudoscience?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We welcome comments on this or other related topics on the main Spotlight page<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to <a title=\"Exploring the Natural Sciences\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-science\/\">Rusty Towell&#8217;s Spotlight page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pioneering science-fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, also wrote insightful non-fiction essays about science over the course of his lengthy career. \u00a0A number of these short reflective pieces have been collected into an anthology,\u00a0The Roving Mind. In one essay Asimov discusses the role of speculation in scientific inquiry and the responsibility of the non-specialist to recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8023,"featured_media":0,"parent":1456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T2tB-DS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2472\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}