{"id":199,"date":"2006-04-19T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/19\/rawr\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T07:40:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T07:40:57","slug":"rawr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/19\/rawr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawr!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-fadaa62884e697587811284b341f1a8d-dino190.jpg\" alt=\"i-fadaa62884e697587811284b341f1a8d-dino190.jpg\" \/>I retain just enough of my childhood fascination with dinosaurs to be interested in a headline like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/18\/science\/18dino.html?ei=5088&#038;en=9bc7391c75c44595&#038;ex=1303012800&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1145445076-t89UCq7vRGYiJ\/OUw2XyWg\">&#8220;A Meat Eater Bigger Than T. Rex Is Unearthed&#8221;<\/a>. Of course, most of the information you would really want is right there in the headline: New dinosaur species, really big, carnivorous, next story please.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent years of scientific training have given me a second reaction to this sort of story, after &#8220;Whoa, cool.&#8221; Namely, &#8220;Boy, the graphics with this story are useless.&#8221; I mean, the little shadow-dinosaur jpeg at left is a standard thing, but the almost completely featureless map of Argentina? What, exactly, am I to glean from that? At least draw some mountains or rivers on it, so I feel like I&#8217;m getting some information.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, how about a picture? OK, fine, the nice people at the Museum of Natural History haven&#8217;t gotten around to reconstructing the skeleton so it looks cool, but surely somebody took pictures of the bones. Why not put one with the online article? Or the classic &#8220;guy-in-a-pith-helmet-standing-in-a-hole&#8221; shot? I realize that the cost of ink means you can&#8217;t have photos with every story in the physical paper, but why should that doom us to image-free blandness on the Web?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I retain just enough of my childhood fascination with dinosaurs to be interested in a headline like &#8220;A Meat Eater Bigger Than T. Rex Is Unearthed&#8221;. Of course, most of the information you would really want is right there in the headline: New dinosaur species, really big, carnivorous, next story please. Subsequent years of scientific&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/19\/rawr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rawr!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}