{"id":101,"date":"2008-08-06T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/08\/06\/microscopists_needed_to_solve_border_disputes\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T07:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:40:34","slug":"microscopists_needed_to_solve_border_disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/08\/06\/microscopists_needed_to_solve_border_disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Microscopists needed to solve border disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a story up about a group at Durham University who have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/staging_site\/in_depth\/the_green_room\/7543837.stm\">produced a map of Arctic boundaries and areas of dispute<\/a>.  Taking a look at the map, I was surprised to read this in the legend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDenmark claimed continental shelf beyond 200 nm\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Setting aside the grammatical contortions that necessitate reading this like a tabloid headline, claiming an area beyond 2 x 10^-7^ m seems a bit picky.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to the Fount of All Truths that is Wikipedia, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nautical_mile#Unit_symbol\">several symbols that could have been used for nautical miles<\/a>, so perhaps they have some very fine-scale measuring equipment they want to sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a story up about a group at Durham University who have produced a map of Arctic boundaries and areas of dispute. Taking a look at the map, I was surprised to read this in the legend: Denmark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/08\/06\/microscopists_needed_to_solve_border_disputes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}