{"id":4709,"date":"2010-05-21T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T09:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/21\/precision-measurement-hits-cab\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T09:25:31","slug":"precision-measurement-hits-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/21\/precision-measurement-hits-cab\/","title":{"rendered":"Precision Measurement Hits Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t see it live, but thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can see Tom O’Brian of NIST talking about measurement on the Rachel Maddow show<\/a> last night:<\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tom used to have an office not far from the lab I worked in at NIST, and has a background in laser stuff, so he’s got to be a good guy for this. This was in honor of World Metrology Day, celebrating the hundred-and-mumbleth anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Meter yesterday. Ironically, all the numbers Tom cites are given in English units.<\/p>\n

So, belated happy Metrology Day to all the good folks out there measuring things to ridiculous precision. And good for Rachel Maddow giving some great science a minute in the (cable) spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t see it live, but thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can see Tom O’Brian of NIST talking about measurement on the Rachel Maddow show last night: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Tom used to have an office not far from the lab I worked… Continue reading Precision Measurement Hits Cable<\/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":[80,265,130,7,37,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_science","category-in_the_media","category-journalism","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","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=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}