{"id":320,"date":"2008-11-25T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/25\/science-is-full-of-surprises\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T02:50:00","slug":"science-is-full-of-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/25\/science-is-full-of-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Science is full of surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The good:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sat down on the sofa this morning with my oatmeal and big cup of tea, and switched on the local TV news. The first thing I saw was one of my colleagues, nervously pipetting culture medium into culture dishes and talking about his findings that came out in a C\/N\/S journal<sup>1<\/sup> today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A couple of hours later I went to put my lunch in the office fridge, and found a packet of lab mouse food (&#8220;bacon flavour!&#8221;) next to my milk.<\/p>\n<p>Science isn&#8217;t dull!<sup>2<\/sup> PI CV updates are a different story however&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Right, I&#8217;m off to watch the hockey with historically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2008\/11\/24\/luongo-canucks-injury.html\">low<\/a> expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">1. For the non-scientists: Cell\/Nature\/Science, i.e. top-tier, very prestigious.<br \/>2. Bonus point to anyone who can tell me which British TV show used that catchphrase in the early 90s!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good: I sat down on the sofa this morning with my oatmeal and big cup of tea, and switched on the local TV news. The first thing I saw was one of my colleagues, nervously pipetting culture medium into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/11\/25\/science-is-full-of-surprises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","category-science","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}