{"id":3575,"date":"2010-03-11T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:24:36","slug":"aside-i-could-find-more-absurd-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/aside-i-could-find-more-absurd-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: I could find more absurd ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If these are really the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/03\/10\/ncbi-rofl-top-10-absurd-papers-from-2009\/\">10 most absurd scientific papers from last year<\/a> then published hard science has nothing, absurditywise, on published humanities. (I&#8217;d actually be interested in reading <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/15\/are-full-or-empty-beer-bottles-sturdier-and-does-their-fracture-threshold-suffice-to-break-the-human-skull\/\">the results of<\/a> &#8220;Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">If these are really the 10 most absurd scientific papers from last year then published hard science has nothing, absurditywise, on published humanities. (I&#8217;d actually be interested in reading the results of &#8220;Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?&#8221;) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/aside-i-could-find-more-absurd-ones\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,3],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-technology","tag-academic-papers","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-VF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}