{"id":195361,"date":"2010-01-18T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:21:06","slug":"ooo-ran-us-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195361","title":{"rendered":"Ooo-RAN-us | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My pal Amanda Bauer &#8212; aka <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/amandabauer.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/how-do-you-pronounce-uranus.html\">Astropixie<\/a> &#8212; has been posting a great series of short videos called Sixty Symbols, where scientists discuss the meanings of a given symbol in science, and the story behind them. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Az0L_HiGvA\">In the latest<\/a>, she tackles the pronunciation of the planet name Uranus &#8212; the name is Greek, so I think the title of this post is correct &#8212; but the video she made has lots of info on the planet, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1Az0L_HiGvA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Related post (and to pre-empt any Futurama jokes):<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2007\/08\/23\/yes-yes-rings-around-uranus-haha\/\">Yes, yes, rings around Uranus, haha<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2dcXijsGdit_hWvT8yn6Y7RnMOU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2dcXijsGdit_hWvT8yn6Y7RnMOU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2dcXijsGdit_hWvT8yn6Y7RnMOU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2dcXijsGdit_hWvT8yn6Y7RnMOU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/seUmaKs7jxA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/nXLBW1AbQL4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal Amanda Bauer &#8212; aka Astropixie &#8212; has been posting a great series of short videos called Sixty Symbols, where scientists discuss the meanings of a given symbol in science, and the story behind them. In the latest, she tackles the pronunciation of the planet name Uranus &#8212; the name is Greek, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}