{"id":29,"date":"2006-01-22T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T09:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/22\/great-experiment-roundup\/"},"modified":"2006-01-22T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T09:32:36","slug":"great-experiment-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/22\/great-experiment-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Experiment Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>It&#8217;s depressingly typical of my life that we would get <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/01\/21\/seed_magazine_launch.html\">BoingBoing-ed<\/A> on a weekend when I&#8217;m visiting the in-laws&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ve gotten a bunch of responses to my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/call_for_blog_posts.php\">earlier request for &#8220;Great Experiments&#8221;<\/A> in other areas of science, and I thought I&#8217;d collect the links in one post (many of them show up as TrackBacks to the original post, but some don&#8217;t):<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolgen\/2006\/01\/best_biology_experimentdiscove.php\">RPM&#8217;s list of Best Biology Experiments\/Discoveries<\/A> on Evolgen.<br \/>\n<LI><A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2006\/01\/great_discoveries.php\">Razib at Gene Expression<\/A> offers another set of biology discoveries.<br \/>\n<LI><A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2006\/01\/the_greatest_cognitive_science_1.php\">Dave and Greta Munger agree<\/A> on a single great cognitive science experiment (with nifty graphics!)<br \/>\n<LI><A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/aetiology\/2006\/01\/post_1.php\">Tara at Aetiology lists great moments in microbiology<\/A> and infectious disease research.<br \/>\n<LI>And Afarensis offers <A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/afarensis\/2006\/01\/19\/great_anthropology\/\">two<\/A> <A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/afarensis\/2006\/01\/20\/great_anthropology_part_two\/\">posts<\/A> covering different classes of great developments in anthropology.<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P>(If I&#8217;ve missed any, or other posts have been made since I last checked, let me know, and I&#8217;ll update the list&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><P>Thanks to all the bloggers who responded. It&#8217;s flattering to have such an off-hand request taken seriously. (Requests for things I ought to post are, of course, welcome in return&#8230;) There&#8217;s lots of interesting material in those posts, and they&#8217;ll provide plenty of reading the next time I&#8217;m looking for cat-vacuuming activities.<\/p>\n<p><P>As for the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/greatest_experiment_ever.php\">Great Experiments in Physics<\/A> post that kicked this off, I&#8217;ve collected a good number of comments, and plan to do some short(ish) posts explaining the most popular choices, once I&#8217;m back home with access to a browser that isn&#8217;t IE, and a keyboard that doesn&#8217;t suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s depressingly typical of my life that we would get BoingBoing-ed on a weekend when I&#8217;m visiting the in-laws&#8230; I&#8217;ve gotten a bunch of responses to my earlier request for &#8220;Great Experiments&#8221; in other areas of science, and I thought I&#8217;d collect the links in one post (many of them show up as TrackBacks to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/22\/great-experiment-roundup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Experiment Round-Up<\/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-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}