{"id":6963,"date":"2011-06-28T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2011-06-28T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:59:00","slug":"greetings-from-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/greetings-from-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much blogging this week, as I&#8217;m at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsj2011.org\/\">World Conference of Science Journalists<\/a> in Doha, Qatar.  I&#8217;m informed that the technical term describing my role here is that of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trailing_spouse\">trailing spouse<\/a>.  But I did give a little talk on upcoming discoveries we should be looking forward to in particle physics and cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to put up a more full report later.  Right now I&#8217;ve just been guilted into blogging because I&#8217;m listening to a sexy and exciting panel about science blogs, staring <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/neurophilosophy\/\">Mo Costandi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/superbug\">Maryn McKenna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedphysics.typepad.com\/\">Jennifer Ouellette<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/\">Ed Yong<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/\">Mohammed Yahia<\/a>.  And just to prove I&#8217;m here, I can show you what a sign inside Starbucks looks like in an Arab country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/06\/starbucks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/06\/starbucks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6965\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards I&#8217;ll be headed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Souq_Waqif\">souk<\/a> to shop for scimitars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much blogging this week, as I&#8217;m at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, Qatar. I&#8217;m informed that the technical term describing my role here is that of trailing spouse. But I did give a little talk on upcoming discoveries we should be looking forward to in particle physics and cosmology. I&#8217;ll try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}