{"id":3291,"date":"2015-03-24T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:20:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:20:31","slug":"in-which-life-imitates-science-number-264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2015\/03\/24\/in-which-life-imitates-science-number-264\/","title":{"rendered":"In which life imitates science &#8211; number 264"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scientist is never off-duty, even in a fabulous Michelin-starred restaurant on Charlotte Street.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3292\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2015\/03\/24\/in-which-life-imitates-science-number-264\/suggestivefood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3292\" src=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2015\/03\/SuggestiveFood.jpg\" alt=\"Spindle organization was never this tasty\" width=\"500\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2015\/03\/SuggestiveFood.jpg 500w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2015\/03\/SuggestiveFood-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spindle organization was never this tasty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think pretty much anyone with a cell biology background would have seen what I saw in this rhubarb confection:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3293\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2015\/03\/24\/in-which-life-imitates-science-number-264\/2000px-centriole-svg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3293\" src=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2015\/03\/2000px-Centriole.svg_.jpg\" alt=\"2000px-Centriole.svg\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2015\/03\/2000px-Centriole.svg_.jpg 500w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/files\/2015\/03\/2000px-Centriole.svg_-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Non-rhubarb-associated centrioles, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Centriole.svg\">diagram by Kelvinsong, Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>But alas, my immediate dining companions consisted of a software system engineer and a cognitive neuroscientist, both of whom looked at me blankly &#8211; and with perhaps just a whiff of pity &#8211; when I excitedly pointed at my dessert and made little squeaky noises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientist is never off-duty, even in a fabulous Michelin-starred restaurant on Charlotte Street. I think pretty much anyone with a cell biology background would have seen what I saw in this rhubarb confection: But alas, my immediate dining companions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2015\/03\/24\/in-which-life-imitates-science-number-264\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientific-thinking","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}