{"id":838,"date":"2009-09-05T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2009-09-05T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:30:21","slug":"scientific-head-scratchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/05\/scientific-head-scratchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific head-scratchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Roger Henry, a list of oddities from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/special\/13-more-things\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>2. Dark Flow<\/strong>: Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Eocene Hothouse<\/strong>: Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 \u00b0C. Now let&#8217;s talk about climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Fly-by Anomalies<\/strong>: Space probes using Earth&#8217;s gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving faster than they should. Call in dark matter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Roger Henry, a list of oddities from New Scientist: 2. Dark Flow: Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed. 3. Eocene Hothouse: Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,16,44],"tags":[240,69],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science","category-space-science","tag-globalwarming","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}