{"id":12712,"date":"2008-03-29T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/03\/science-drops-tumbling-hippies-chinese-cannons-more.html"},"modified":"2008-03-29T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:29:01","slug":"science_drops_tumbling_hippies_chinese_can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/29\/science_drops_tumbling_hippies_chinese_can\/","title":{"rendered":"Science drops: Tumbling hippies, Chinese cannons, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m getting a little far afield of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/scientific_technical_imaging\/\">scientific imaging<\/a> per se, but I found the following interesting &amp; thought you might as well. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh man&#8211;tumbling hippies + Jabberwocky + amino acids: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww\">this 1971 MIT video<\/a> has it all.&#160; When that hoodling organ sountrack kicks in, you know it&#8217;s gonna be good. (Skip ahead 3:30 or so to the dancing.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/03\/15314.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Hmm&#8211;I wonder whether these come in &#8220;Ps&#8221; or &#8220;Ai&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/itsno.name\/index.html\">periodic table rings<\/a>. [Via Jeffrey Warnock]&#160; (Of course, a more committed geek would go with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/28\/knuckle-tattoo-blog.html\">knuckle tattoos<\/a>&#8211;the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/06\/bleedin_for_the.html\">arm<\/a> already having been done.) <\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government is apparently trying to control the weather at the Olympics, literally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/technology\/not_content_with_enormous_weird_buildings_chinese_government_will_also_engineer_the_weather_at_beijing_olympics_9362.asp\">shooting clouds out of the sky<\/a>.&#160; Seriously.<\/li>\n<li>Lunar images &amp; infographics:\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a map of the area covered by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on their Apollo 11 moon walks, <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/alsj\/a11\/A11vsFootball.gif\">superimposed on a soccer field<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/alsj\/a11\/A11vsMLB.gif\">a baseball diamond<\/a>.&#160; (I suppose if I were carrying a 400lb suit, I wouldn&#8217;t get too far, either.)&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/03\/15303.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Photographers captured last month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/gallery?Avis=B0&amp;Dato=20080221&amp;Kategori=PHOTO&amp;Lopenr=221004&amp;Ref=PH\">total lunar eclipse<\/a> in a series of photos.&#160; I especially like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/gallery?Site=B0&amp;Date=20080221&amp;Category=PHOTO&amp;ArtNo=221004&amp;Ref=PH&amp;Params=Itemnr=5\">this shot<\/a> from Johnny Horne. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure that it constitutes scientific imaging, but Wikipedia hosts a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image%3AChip-pan-fire.jpg\">beautiful column of fire<\/a>.&#160; Talk about an awesome blossom.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m getting a little far afield of scientific imaging per se, but I found the following interesting &amp; thought you might as well. Oh man&#8211;tumbling hippies + Jabberwocky + amino acids: this 1971 MIT video has it all.&#160; When that hoodling organ sountrack kicks in, you know it&#8217;s gonna be good. (Skip ahead 3:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}