{"id":2351,"date":"2013-12-11T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2013-12-11T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T04:54:07","slug":"a-study-of-ginger-using-live-image-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2013\/12\/11\/a-study-of-ginger-using-live-image-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"A study of Ginger using live-image analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ginger while we&#039;re gone...\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/11333662056\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have recently added a new title to my signature: that of director of our institute&#8217;s microscopy facility. One of my goals is to upgrade our capabilities and acquire a microscope capable of super-resolution; that is the ability to differentiate between particles that are as close as ~20 nm to one another&#8211;about 10 fold better than traditional light microscopy methods. I am very excited!<\/p>\n<p>But here I&#8217;d like to demonstrate a classic live-image experiment carried out by my kids. Ginger is allowed on their beds, but not on the sofa in the living room.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Feel free to jump to 1 min 23 secs, to see when the action starts&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hypothesis: Ginger naps on the sofa as well as the beds.<\/p>\n<p>Methods: Live image analysis was used to monitor Ginger&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Results: See for yourselves!<\/p>\n<p>Conclusions: Dogs are smarter than humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently added a new title to my signature: that of director of our institute&#8217;s microscopy facility. One of my goals is to upgrade our capabilities and acquire a microscope capable of super-resolution; that is the ability to differentiate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2013\/12\/11\/a-study-of-ginger-using-live-image-analysis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,91,50],"tags":[305,954,952,955,953,941,895],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-research","category-science","tag-dogs","tag-experiment","tag-ginger","tag-gotcha","tag-live-imaging-analysis","tag-microscopy","tag-vizsla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}