{"id":1028,"date":"2005-10-08T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1028"},"modified":"2005-10-08T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T20:06:01","slug":"ig-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1028","title":{"rendered":"Ig Nobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005\">2005<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/ig-top.html\">Ig Nobels<\/a> were awarded this week!<\/p>\n<p>(Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to read some of the original articles from work.)<\/p>\n<p>Of this years winners, I particularly liked  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d swim faster in syrup, as I&#8217;d be completely disgusted and want to get out as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2005 Ig Nobels were awarded this week! (Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to read some of the original articles from work.) Of this years winners, I particularly liked Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-health-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}