{"id":24756,"date":"2011-01-29T23:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T23:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/29\/technobabble-1\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T23:53:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T23:53:37","slug":"technobabble-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/technobabble-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Technobabble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not visit web sites if your computer is running Windows.  <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/en_us\/blogs\/microsoft-warns-mhtml-bug-windows-012811\">Recent reports<\/a> indicate that your computer could be taken over by malicious forces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/adventures-in-it\/cairo-mania-egypt-cuts-the-net-807\">Egypt vs. the Netizins.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Model predicts &#8216;religiosity gene&#8217; will dominate society.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-01-religiosity-gene-dominate-society.html\">OMG<\/a>.  Ooops, did I say that?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the Antikythera Mechanism was a computer built in Greece at around 100 BCE. It is an astronomical device for ascertaining the positions of celestial bodies and it is quite accurate.  Some crazy scientists bult a fully-functional Lego replica of the device:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLPVCJjTNgk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not visit web sites if your computer is running Windows. Recent reports indicate that your computer could be taken over by malicious forces. Egypt vs. the Netizins. Model predicts &#8216;religiosity gene&#8217; will dominate society. OMG. Ooops, did I say that? And finally, the Antikythera Mechanism was a computer built in Greece at around 100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/technobabble-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technobabble<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ri","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}