{"id":2460,"date":"2008-04-03T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/03\/cut-and-paste-error-of-the-yea\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:10:06","slug":"cut-and-paste-error-of-the-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/03\/cut-and-paste-error-of-the-yea\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut and Paste Error of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EurekAlert provides a sort of firehose feed of press releases, some of which contain really hilariously awkward phrases. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2008-04\/uom-ggg040308.php\">This release about a graphene-based measurement of the fine structure constant<\/a> is one of the all-time greats, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prof Geim, who in 2004 discovered graphene with Dr Kostya Novoselov, a one-atom-thick gauze of carbon atoms resembling chicken wire, says: &#8220;Change this fine tuned number by only a few percent and the life would not be here because nuclear reactions in which carbon is generated from lighter elements in burning stars would be forbidden. No carbon means no life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand exactly how that sort of thing gets written, and I feel a little sorry for the press officer responsible. But mostly, I&#8217;m impressed by how much Dr. Novoselov has accomplished, given that he&#8217;s only one atom thick and resembles chicken wire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EurekAlert provides a sort of firehose feed of press releases, some of which contain really hilariously awkward phrases. This release about a graphene-based measurement of the fine structure constant is one of the all-time greats, though: Prof Geim, who in 2004 discovered graphene with Dr Kostya Novoselov, a one-atom-thick gauze of carbon atoms resembling chicken&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/03\/cut-and-paste-error-of-the-yea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cut and Paste Error of the Year<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}