{"id":736,"date":"2021-01-05T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/?p=736"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:28:42","slug":"prof-david-furbish-and-phd-student-kelsea-best-follow-up-on-bernard-k-forschers-1963-essay-chaos-in-the-brickyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/prof-david-furbish-and-phd-student-kelsea-best-follow-up-on-bernard-k-forschers-1963-essay-chaos-in-the-brickyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. David Furbish and PhD student Kelsea Best follow up on  Bernard K. Forscher&#8217;s 1963 essay,  Chaos in the Brickyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of The Brickyard in 2020 (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher\u2019s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, \u201cChaos in the Brickyard.\u201d\u00a0 It calls for a need to realign the research endeavor, institutions and incentives with changing values. You can view their essay <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.vanderbilt.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1803\/16353\/The%20Brickyard%20in%202020.pdf?sequence=3&amp;isAllowed=y\">here<\/a> or by logging into the Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, a young brickmaker (Kelsea Best) provides an update to B. K. Forscher&#8217;s 1963 vision of the state of the scientific endeavor as a brickyard. As the brickyard becomes ever more chaotic, this essay calls on young brickmakers to begin to clear the clutter, focusing on the construction of edifices over piles of bricks. Her essay can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.vanderbilt.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1803\/16354\/Young%20Brickmakers.pdf?sequence=3&amp;isAllowed=y\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of The Brickyard in 2020 (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher\u2019s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, \u201cChaos in the Brickyard.\u201d\u00a0 It calls for a need to realign the research endeavor, institutions and incentives with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[11,16],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}