{"id":313939,"date":"2010-02-12T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2201217"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:40:00","slug":"jump-into-olympic-size-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/313939","title":{"rendered":"Jump into Olympic-size science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/science-of-the-games\/\"><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100212-coslog-curling-466px-1030a.jpg\" width=466 height=255><\/A><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">NBCOlympics.com<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\"><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/science-of-the-games\/\">Click for video:<\/A><\/STRONG> The sport of curling lends itself to a discussion of physics <BR>in a video presented by NBC Learn in cooperation with the National Science <BR>Foundation. Click on the image to see the full video series.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>Science and sports aficionados are using the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/\">Winter Olympics<\/A> as a teachable moment, for subjects ranging from the mechanics behind a curling freeze to the meteorology behind Vancouver&#8217;s non-freeze.<\/p>\n<p><P>The geeks and the jocks may be on opposing sides in the battle for high-school supremacy. By the time you get to the Olympic-scale level of excellence, however, geeks and jocks definitely need each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/02\/12\/2201217.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2201217\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBCOlympics.com Click for video: The sport of curling lends itself to a discussion of physics in a video presented by NBC Learn in cooperation with the National Science Foundation. Click on the image to see the full video series. Science and sports aficionados are using the Winter Olympics as a teachable moment, for subjects ranging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313939","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\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}