{"id":650908,"date":"2013-04-05T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74300"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:14:12","slug":"in-short-dragonflies-that-amaze-the-secret-of-your-unique-breathprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650908","title":{"rendered":"In short: Dragonflies that amaze, the secret of your unique breathprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/playlists\/5\/insects_are_awesome.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week:<\/p>\n<p>First: Dragonflies are beautiful, deadly and have weird sex. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/02\/science\/dragonflies-natures-deadly-drone-but-prettier.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20130402\" >NY Times<\/a>] While you&#8217;re at it, check out our playlist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/5\/insects_are_awesome.html\" >Insects are awesome!<\/a>, above.<\/p>\n<p>The clap-o-meter was yesterday&#8217;s Big Data. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/03\/a-brief-history-of-applause-the-big-data-of-the-ancient-world\/274014\/\" >The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dimitar_sasselov_how_we_found_hundreds_of_potential_earth_like_planets.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/185388_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a> Scientists now estimate the number of Earth-like, habitable planets in the Galaxy to be around 100 billion. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/gravitational-microlensing-could-lead-to-the-discovery-of-100-billion-earth-like-planets\/\" >Sci tech daily<\/a>] Watch Dimitar Sasselov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dimitar_sasselov_how_we_found_hundreds_of_potential_earth_like_planets.html\" >talk from 2010<\/a> on his own work with Kepler to look for these kinds of planets.<\/p>\n<p>We all have unique fingerprints and genomes &#8212; and breathprints? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn23347-what-we-exhale-is-unique-to-us--our-breathprint.html\" >New Scientist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>What does linguist Ben Zimmer read? A question you never thought you&#8217;d ask, yet you&#8217;re glad you found the answer. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/business\/2013\/04\/ben-zimmer-what-i-read\/63855\/\" >The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Weird but fascinating article on how breeding pigeons in New York City is becoming a representation of the American melting pot\/tossed salad. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/04\/nyregion\/breeding-pigeons-on-rooftops-and-blurring-racial-lines.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20130404\" >NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/willard_wigan_hold_your_breath_for_micro_sculpture.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/106786_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nTiny, tiny, tiny gorgeous paintings of Istanbul by Hasan Kale. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/03\/micro-art-miniature-paintings-of-istanbul-by-hasan-kale-will-leave-you-speechless-_n_3001222.html#slide=2291848\" >Huffington Post<\/a>] They remind me of Willard Wigan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/willard_wigan_hold_your_breath_for_micro_sculpture.html\" >awesome micro sculptures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neat. Fourteen words that are their own opposites. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/49834\/14-words-are-their-own-opposites\" >Mental Floss<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods announces a new partnership with Gotham Greens, co-founded by TED Fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2011\/07\/01\/fellows-friday-with-viraj-puri\/\" >Viraj Puri<\/a>, to build a greenhouse on the roof of its forthcoming location in Gowanus, Brooklyn. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groceryheadquarters.com\/2013\/04\/whole-foods-to-build-rooftop-greenhouse\/\" >Grocery Headquarters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74300\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74300\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74300&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/4DtI7-aOtb8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: First: Dragonflies are beautiful, deadly and have weird sex. [NY Times] While you&#8217;re at it, check out our playlist\u00a0Insects are awesome!, above. The clap-o-meter was yesterday&#8217;s Big Data. [The Atlantic] Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650908","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\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}