{"id":2060,"date":"2007-12-11T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/11\/tree-of-science-1\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:15:27","slug":"tree-of-science-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/11\/tree-of-science-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree of SCIENCE!!! #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the first of this year’s series of pictures proving that our Christmas tree is all about SCIENCE!!! (which, for the record, needs to be said like it’s in a Thomas Dolby song). Some of these will eventually get kind of obscure, but we’ll start with an easy one:<\/p>\n

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This little guy, obviously, stands for the life sciences and evolution.<\/p>\n

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Why evolution? Well, because he’s an iguana, and they’re found in the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin did all that work, back in the day.<\/p>\n

Also, we got him (her? it’s hard to tell…) at the Darwin exhibit at the science museum in Boston.<\/p>\n

You can’t see it very well in this picture, but the ornament is articulated– the tail and body are made of overlapping segments, and can be bent around almost in a circle. It’s not inherently Christmasy (in fact, I’m not 100% certain is was intended to be an ornament), but it’s a little glittery articulated iguana, and who wouldn’t want one of those?<\/p>\n

The blue-and-white thing in the background is a blown-glass ornament that I made at the Corning Glass Museum a couple of years ago. “Blown glass” makes it sound like it ought to be fragile, but in fact, it weighs a ton. Glass is kind of science-y, too– lenses and mirrors and beakers and flasks– so there’s some bonus extra science content for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the first of this year’s series of pictures proving that our Christmas tree is all about SCIENCE!!! (which, for the record, needs to be said like it’s in a Thomas Dolby song). Some of these will eventually get kind of obscure, but we’ll start with an easy one: This little guy, obviously, stands for… Continue reading Tree of SCIENCE!!! #1<\/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":[50,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}