{"id":1446,"date":"2005-02-27T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/02\/27\/can_a_biologist_fix_a_radio.html"},"modified":"2005-02-27T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T14:57:10","slug":"can_a_biologist_fix_a_radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/02\/27\/can_a_biologist_fix_a_radio.html","title":{"rendered":"Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like science humor to brighten my day so i was laughing hysterically when a friend read to me from <a href=\"http:\/\/1.mol.bio.msu.ru\/biokhimiya\/contents\/v69\/pdf\/bcm_1403.pdf\">Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? &#8211; or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How would we begin? First, we would secure funds to obtain a large supply of identical functioning radios in order to dissect and compare them to the one that is broken. We would eventually find how to open the radios and will find objects of various shape, color, and size. We would describe and classify them into families according to their appearance. We would describe a family of square metal objects, a family of round brightly colored objects with two legs, roundshaped objects with three legs and so on. Because the objects would vary in color, we will investigate whether changing the colors affects the radio&#8217;s performance. Although changing the colors would have only attenuating effects (the music is still playing but a trained ear of some people can discern some distortion), this approach will produce many publications and result in a lively debate&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Note: said friend sees this article as a call-to-arms, not simply science humor&#8230; apparently i&#8217;m not as big of a nerd as i think.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like science humor to brighten my day so i was laughing hysterically when a friend read to me from Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? &#8211; or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis. How would we begin? First, we would secure funds to obtain a large supply of identical functioning radios in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}