{"id":193,"date":"2008-11-30T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2008\/11\/30\/bananas_and_slugs_the_long_tail_of_science\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:48:46","slug":"bananas_and_slugs_the_long_tail_of_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2008\/11\/30\/bananas_and_slugs_the_long_tail_of_science\/","title":{"rendered":"Bananas and Slugs &#8211; the long tail of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here on Nature Network, several bloggers have lamented the difficulty in keeping up with the literature in their field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bananaslug.com\/index.php\">BananaSLUG<\/a> adds even more of a challenge!<\/p>\n<p>By throwing a random word into your Google search string, BananaSlug will return hits that would otherwise be buried several pages into the results.<\/p>\n<p>BananaSlug &#8220;was designed to promote serendipitous surfing&#8221;. I am not sure it does that &#8211; surely serendipity is not found by looking for it &#8211; but this is a fun gadget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here on Nature Network, several bloggers have lamented the difficulty in keeping up with the literature in their field. BananaSLUG adds even more of a challenge! By throwing a random word into your Google search string, BananaSlug will return hits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2008\/11\/30\/bananas_and_slugs_the_long_tail_of_science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-the-phd","category-nature-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}