{"id":5808,"date":"2011-08-12T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/12\/the-stupidest-thing-youll-read\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:28:17","slug":"the-stupidest-thing-youll-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/12\/the-stupidest-thing-youll-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupidest Thing You&#8217;ll Read Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shockingly, it does not seem to involve right-wing politics in any way. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amicistours.com\/wineswirling.html\">this explanation of why swirling wine in your glass clockwise produces different effects than swirling it counter-clockwise<\/a>. a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like all living things wine cells have a magnetic polarity, just like humans and the Earth. The positive pole is more highly charged, just like the North Pole of the Earth, which is why there are Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle, but not Southern Lights in the Antarctic. This polarity tends to keep wine cells generally upright, spinning on their axis when they are being swirled. This magnetic action within a liquid is commonly demonstrated in laboratories. Because plant molecules are mostly liquid, when they form they are also subject to the electromagnetic forces that are a component of the rotation of the Earth. As a result, the pores on the surface of the molecules develop based on that rotation, like the shingles on a roof. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/11\/in_which_we_learn_lots_about_wine_swirling.php\">Derek Lowe has more<\/a>, if you need it.<\/p>\n<p>I had been planning to say something scathing about <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-World-Without-Scholars-A\/128541\/#disqus_thread\">this bit of fatuous and self-important nonsense<\/a>, but really, &#8220;wine cells&#8221; is so over-the-top that there really isn&#8217;t much point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shockingly, it does not seem to involve right-wing politics in any way. It&#8217;s this explanation of why swirling wine in your glass clockwise produces different effects than swirling it counter-clockwise. a sample: Like all living things wine cells have a magnetic polarity, just like humans and the Earth. The positive pole is more highly charged,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/12\/the-stupidest-thing-youll-read\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Stupidest Thing You&#8217;ll Read Today<\/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":[34,72,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life_science","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","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=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}