{"id":1872,"date":"2011-07-23T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2011-07-24T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T14:44:13","slug":"great-use-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/great-use-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Great use of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/large_snowflake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1886\" title=\"Snowfakes30_09\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/large_snowflake-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/large_snowflake-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/large_snowflake.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Just heard a great story on Car Talk. On the segment, &#8220;Stump the Chumps,&#8221; they revisited a caller who asked them the best way to get rid of a fly nest\/hatch in his car [1]. The Car Talk guys had recommended a bug bomb. Well, after looking at all the warning labels on a bug bomb, the caller decided NOT to use it. Instead, he used a little science. He remembered that when temperatures drop, flies go away. So he parked his car in a friend&#8217;s cold storage facility. Sure enough, his car is now bug free. What a great use of a little observational science!<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartalk.com\/Radio\/player5\/player.php?a=segment&amp;segment=09\">http:\/\/www.cartalk.com\/Radio\/player5\/player.php?a=segment&amp;segment=09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard a great story on Car Talk. On the segment, &#8220;Stump the Chumps,&#8221; they revisited a caller who asked them the best way to get rid of a fly nest\/hatch in his car [1]. The Car Talk guys had recommended a bug bomb. Well, after looking at all the warning labels on a bug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[56],"class_list":{"0":"post-1872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-science","7":"tag-science-2","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}