{"id":240703,"date":"2026-07-12T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/in-a-flight-of-starlings-by-giorgio-parisi"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:03:00","slug":"in-a-flight-of-starlings-by-giorgio-parisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/in-a-flight-of-starlings-by-giorgio-parisi","title":{"rendered":"In a Flight of Starlings by Giorgio Parisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-flight-of-starlings-by-giorgio-parisi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist.\u201d <strong>\u2014Carlo Rovelli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With <em>In a Flight of Starlings<\/em>, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds\u2014collections of everything from atoms and planets to other animals, such as ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. \u201c[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist.\u201d \u2014Carlo Rovelli With In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}