{"id":1625,"date":"2012-08-26T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2012\/08\/26\/sometimes-there-s-a-fine-line-between-important-research-and-fun-stuff\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:23:07","slug":"sometimes-there-s-a-fine-line-between-important-research-and-fun-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/sometimes-there-s-a-fine-line-between-important-research-and-fun-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes there&#8217;s a fine line between important research and fun stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, back again, let&#8217;s see what we have right now:<\/p>\n<p>First up, the short list for the first-annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2012\/announcing-the-information-is-beautiful-awards-shortlist\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InformationIsBeautiful+%28Information+Is+Beautiful%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Information is Beautiful awards have been announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The title says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/copyranter\/12-of-the-worstbest-puns-ever\">worst puns ever<\/a>, I say best.<\/p>\n<p>Please, please, please learn to kern:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/web03\/2012\/8\/24\/8\/enhanced-buzz-29273-1345811030-8.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Um, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20120813\/WIRE\/120819857\/2416\/NEWS?Title=Record-17-foot-Burmese-python-caught-in-Everglades&amp;tc=ar\">python that was caught in Florida was 17 feet<\/a>. \u00a0Well I know what I&#8217;ll be having nightmares about now.<\/p>\n<p>Also in animal news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn22195-aphids-may-be-first-photosynthesising-animal.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=online-news\">Aphids may have evolved to use photosynthesis<\/a>. \u00a0Pretty amazing!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s long, but worth it, the Lego story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NdDU_BBJW9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Famous CD covers recreated via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/320044\/iconic-album-covers-recreated-with-socks?all=1\">the medium of&#8230;socks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, have a great one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, back again, let&#8217;s see what we have right now: First up, the short list for the first-annual Information is Beautiful awards have been announced. The title says worst puns ever, I say best. Please, please, please learn to kern: Um, a python that was caught in Florida was 17 feet. \u00a0Well I know what I&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1681,1370,827,1680,289,1050,1682,1679,715,1683,364],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-aphid","tag-cd","tag-information-is-beautiful","tag-kern","tag-lego","tag-nightmare","tag-photosynthesis","tag-pun","tag-python","tag-sock","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}