{"id":4898,"date":"2010-07-29T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/29\/dorky-poll-experimental-hazing\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:09:20","slug":"dorky-poll-experimental-hazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/29\/dorky-poll-experimental-hazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Experimental Hazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be spending a good chunk of the rest of my day scrounging up adapters to connect two different classes of plumbing fittings. In honor of that, here&#8217;s a poll question based on something that one research group used to do:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3542492.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3542492\/\">Sending a new graduate student to the lab down the hall to ask for a BNC to Swagelok adapter is:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, I have seen something that easily could have been turned into a Swagelok to BNC adapter (in fact, I might still have one in my lab), that served a serious purpose.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(BNC is a type of electrical connection, Swagelok is a type of plumbing fitting. You wouldn&#8217;t normally connect one to the other.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be spending a good chunk of the rest of my day scrounging up adapters to connect two different classes of plumbing fittings. In honor of that, here&#8217;s a poll question based on something that one research group used to do: Sending a new graduate student to the lab down the hall to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/29\/dorky-poll-experimental-hazing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorky Poll: Experimental Hazing<\/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":[19,7,137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-physics","category-polls","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}