{"id":1739,"date":"2008-09-11T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2008-09-11T13:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T12:54:42","slug":"snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jove.com\/index\/details.stp?ID=890\">induce egglaying in frogs <\/a> (Not safe for frog lovers) by injecting them with human hormones: I learned this indirectly from a letter this morning about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/sep\/11\/research\">my column on wikigenes<\/a>, which turned out to appeal to an Oxford researcher who also liked the Swedish book. The particular video to which I have linked may be disturbing to frog-lovers; but the site itself is a fascinating compendium of video&#8217;ed experiments ove every sort, and an example of the spread of bottom-up science on the web that I was writing about. Of course, someone will be along now to say that fertility rtreatment in humans involves injhecting them with horse hormones or something.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Yesterday, in the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8217;s editorial conference, when the morning&#8217;s paper was boing swiftly run through, it was announced that &#8220;Richard Littlejohn will have an orgasm this week: there are three supplements full of advertising in <em>Society Guardian<\/em>&#8221;&#8212;but it turns out the news is too important to wait for Littlejohn&#8217;s column, and the paper devotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1054497\/Its-worst-recession-60-years-private-firms-slashing-jobs-cutting-pensions-But-public-sector-boomtime.html\">a whole page<\/a> to denouncing us today.<\/li>\n\t\t<li>On the other hand, the <em>Mail<\/em>&#8217;s splash today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1054496\/Lawyer-centre-Scotland-Yard-race-war-convicted-conman-suspect-legal-qualifications.html\">a corking story<\/a>: a really wonderful piece of journalism, in which they establish that the immensely rich Iranian lawyer currently adivising five of the London policemen suing the Met for racial discrimination has a conviction for telesales farud in California and appears to have bought his law degree from a mail order university in Hawaii, subsequently shut down by the authorities.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>You can induce egglaying in frogs (Not safe for frog lovers) by injecting them with human hormones: I learned this indirectly from a letter this morning about my column on wikigenes, which turned out to appeal to an Oxford researcher &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}