{"id":1006,"date":"2002-07-27T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2002-07-27T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2002-07-27T15:49:12","slug":"people-who-can-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"people who can count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>count for more than people who can&#8217;t. Rupert, for example, worked out for me how much bigger are the pits in CD than the bases on a string of <span class=\"caps\">DNA.<\/span> It turns out that, if both were the same size, we&#8217;d have to be a hundred feet tall. The pits in a CD are so small that you can fit 3 billion of them into a string five kilometres long, and then coil the whole thing onto a <span class=\"caps\">CD.<\/span> The three billion base pairs of <span class=\"caps\">DNA <\/span>are only a metre long and are coiled into  every cell of your body. That&#8217;s thin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>count for more than people who can&#8217;t. Rupert, for example, worked out for me how much bigger are the pits in CD than the bases on a string of <span class=\"caps\">DNA.<\/span> It turns out that, if both were the same size, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}