{"id":9421,"date":"2006-01-08T23:39:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T04:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/01\/08\/quick-hits\/"},"modified":"2006-01-08T23:39:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T04:39:47","slug":"quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/08\/quick-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick things noticed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\">Cynical-C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/archives\/2006_01.html#004336\">First<\/a>, very much up the old Cosmic Variance alley, a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.nad.ru\/Physics\/English\/top10.htm\">Ten Most Beautiful Physics Experiments<\/a> ever.  I have a funny feeling we&#8217;ve linked to it before, but it&#8217;s worth a visit.  I would have voted for Archimedes taking a bath over Galileo dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which after all probably never happened.  (He did, however, amuse himself during sermons at the next-door cathedral by using his pulse to time the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galileo_Galilei#Physics\">chandelier<\/a> swinging overhead, thereby discovering that the period of a pendulum is independent of its amplitude.)<\/p>\n<p>Our fan base will verify that we here at CV are utterly beholden to the dictates of political correctness, so this other link is somewhat outside our normal fare:  but it is perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/archives\/2006_01.html#004323\">best blonde joke ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick things noticed on Cynical-C. First, very much up the old Cosmic Variance alley, a list of the Ten Most Beautiful Physics Experiments ever. I have a funny feeling we&#8217;ve linked to it before, but it&#8217;s worth a visit. I would have voted for Archimedes taking a bath over Galileo dropping balls from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421","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=9421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}