{"id":173,"date":"2008-08-12T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/12\/unashamedly_geeky\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:08:34","slug":"unashamedly_geeky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/12\/unashamedly_geeky\/","title":{"rendered":"Unashamedly geeky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>bq. <strong>Question:  Picasso pioneered what short-lived but influential form of art?  Answer: Copper, Bismuth, Samarium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nSo the biologists among us must all have played the &#8220;What words can you find in the human|rat|frog|wombat genome?&#8221; game. Some of us might even have looked for our own names (which is fine as long as we&#8217;re not, for example &#8216;Bob&#8217; or &#8216;Jenny&#8217; \u2014 you may blame <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.arizona.edu\/biochemistry\/problem_sets\/aa\/Dayhoff.html\">Margaret Dayhoff<\/a> for this terrible oversight).<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the chemists, potentially, have much more fun. With over a hundred chemical symbols to choose from, the possibilities are maybe not endless, but certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellington.org\/nandor\/chemwords\/chemwords.htm\">fascinating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a FOReTaSTe, consider <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe longest word you can spell with chemical symbols is [&#8230;] &#8220;NoNRePReSeNTaTiONaLiSmS.&#8221; . . .  The longest obscure word [&#8230;] is &#8220;hypothalamicohypophyseal,&#8221; which can be spelled 8 different ways with chemical symbols.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHours of fun for all the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bq. Question: Picasso pioneered what short-lived but influential form of art? Answer: Copper, Bismuth, Samarium So the biologists among us must all have played the &#8220;What words can you find in the human|rat|frog|wombat genome?&#8221; game. Some of us might even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/12\/unashamedly_geeky\/\">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-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}