{"id":15613,"date":"2008-11-12T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T21:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/11\/science-friday-from-mexican-caves-to-the-sun.html"},"modified":"2008-11-12T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T21:42:30","slug":"science_friday_from_mexican_caves_to_the_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/science_friday_from_mexican_caves_to_the_s\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Friday: From Mexican caves to the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>NatGeo features a photo gallery from inside Mexico&#8217;s breathtaking <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2008\/11\/crystal-giants\/crystals-photography\">Cave of Crystals<\/a>.  In an accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/video\/player#\/?titleID=1842856752\">video<\/a>, writer Neil Shea and photographer Carsten Peter discuss the extreme heat &amp; other challenges involved in working in the cave.<\/li>\n<li>Disturbances in the Force: The NYT features an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/28\/science\/28cough.html\">article<\/a> and captivating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/10\/27\/science\/102808-Cough_index.html\">photo gallery<\/a> of &#8220;The Mysterious Cough, Caught on Film&#8221;&#8211;using photography to capture gas dynamics.<\/li>\n<li>Micro:\n<ul>\n<li>The paper also features a narrated gallery of the Nikon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/10\/16\/science\/20081016smallworldgallery.html?th&amp;emc=th\">Small World competition winners<\/a>.\u00a0 If I could paint something as beautiful as these marine diatoms, I&#8217;d be a happy guy.<\/li>\n<li>Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow has figured out how to <a href=\"http:\/\/theflashblog.com\/?p=472\">create abstract backgrounds with a cheap children&#8217;s microscope<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Heavenly:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The Big Picture features revealing shots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/10\/the_sun.html\">the Sun<\/a>. [Via Ivan Cavero Belaunde]        <\/li>\n<li>Air &amp; Space Magazine features a set of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/space-exploration\/Top_NASA_Photos_of_All_Time.html#\">50 Greatest NASA Photos<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Okay, I&#8217;m straying now, but if those are up your alley, I&#8217;ll bet the <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5075235\/rocket+bye+baby\">Rocket-Bye-Baby<\/a> will be, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s not to dig about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/10\/22\/protein-sculpture-in.html\">protein sculpture inspired by Vitruvian Man<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Aquatic:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/10\/24\/piglet-squid-is-cute.html\">Piglet squid<\/a>&#8221; makes me suspect that scientists may be punking us, just to see whether we&#8217;re paying attention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursispaltenstein.ch\/blog\/weblog.php?\/weblog\/galapagos\/\">7 minutes in the Galapagos<\/a> offers some gorgeous moving images, including the rather amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whale_shark\">whale shark<\/a> at the end. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NatGeo features a photo gallery from inside Mexico&#8217;s breathtaking Cave of Crystals. In an accompanying video, writer Neil Shea and photographer Carsten Peter discuss the extreme heat &amp; other challenges involved in working in the cave. Disturbances in the Force: The NYT features an interesting article and captivating photo gallery of &#8220;The Mysterious Cough, Caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613"}],"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=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}