{"id":653583,"date":"2013-04-21T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74955"},"modified":"2013-04-21T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T14:35:17","slug":"a-new-ted-playlist-not-for-the-faint-of-heart-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653583","title":{"rendered":"A new TED Playlist not for the faint of heart: GROSS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/playlists\/93\/gross.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something oddly satisfying about hearing something gross &#8212; something that automatically scrunches your face and makes you cover your eyes, though maybe opening two fingers so that you can sort-of, kind-of see. That\u2019s why we created the new TED Playlist called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/93\/gross.html\">GROSS!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Included in this playlist: Marcel Dicke\u2019s rousing case for why we should eat insects. Kees Moeliker on how discovering a live duck copulating with a dead duck changed his life. And Marcus Byrne\u2019s love letter to the dance of the dung beetle, which allows it to roll poop over great distances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\">TED playlists<\/a>\u00a0are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context.\u00a0A new playlist is added every week. We hope you enjoy this installment.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74955\/\" \/><\/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=74955&#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\/lFa9boTYk-U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something oddly satisfying about hearing something gross &#8212; something that automatically scrunches your face and makes you cover your eyes, though maybe opening two fingers so that you can sort-of, kind-of see. That\u2019s why we created the new TED Playlist called GROSS! Included in this playlist: Marcel Dicke\u2019s rousing case for why we should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653583","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\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}