{"id":167,"date":"2012-10-18T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/?p=167"},"modified":"2012-10-18T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:19:58","slug":"science-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2012\/10\/18\/science-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Round up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch volcanoes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/10\/scienceshot-watching-volcanoes.html\">erupting on Io<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An exoplanet found at the closest star to ours (please bear in mind what sort of distance that implies anyway). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature11572.html\">An earth mass planet orbiting alpha Centauri B<\/a>, going around it about every three days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/156\/156ra139.full\">For once an ancient Chinese herb that seems to actually do something<\/a>. \u00a0Triptolide has been shown to help against a large number of cancers, and they&#8217;re working on turning that into a useable drug.<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, some attempt to get past the BS of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0094576512003384\">Drake equation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch volcanoes erupting on Io. An exoplanet found at the closest star to ours (please bear in mind what sort&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}