{"id":503,"date":"2006-08-16T07:17:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T07:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/16\/gravity-still-works\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T07:17:23","slug":"gravity-still-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/16\/gravity-still-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Still Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True Lab stories are everywhere, as Arcance Gazebo today features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcanegazebo.net\/2006\/08\/measurements_of_gravity_using.html\">a story of new and interesting liquid nitrogen experiments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Condensed matter labs such as ours receive frequent deliveries of liquid nitrogen in one- or two-hundred liter dewars. Unfortunately, most of the Berkeley cond-mat labs are in Birge Hall, which has no loading dock, so that the LN2 dewars arrive on the first floor of neighboring LeConte where they must be wheeled over to their destination by some low-seniority student. Since the Berkeley campus is on a hill, the loading dock at the back of the building is one floor higher than the other entrances to LeConte and all the entrances to Birge. One can push the dewar around the outside of LeConte, but a shorter route is to take the elevator down one floor and go out the side door.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the LeConte elevator was out of order, which for most of us would have meant taking the long way around. However, one undergrad, tasked with transporting a full 230L dewar, simply decided to take the <i>stairs<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He has pictures. Thankfully, no-one was hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Lab stories are everywhere, as Arcance Gazebo today features a story of new and interesting liquid nitrogen experiments: Condensed matter labs such as ours receive frequent deliveries of liquid nitrogen in one- or two-hundred liter dewars. Unfortunately, most of the Berkeley cond-mat labs are in Birge Hall, which has no loading dock, so that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/16\/gravity-still-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gravity Still Works<\/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":[25,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab_stories","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}