{"id":26739,"date":"2009-07-03T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/03\/life-in-biosphere-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T20:10:26","slug":"life-in-biosphere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/life-in-biosphere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Biosphere 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, I was at a going away party for Bruno.  Bruno was a hard core scientist who was being brought into the Biosphere project down in Arizona to get it straightened out after a long period of bad press.<\/p>\n<p>One of the folks at the party was an archaeology graduate student, Ben, who had a very dry sense of humor.  As Ben was leaving that evening, he turned to Bruno to wish him well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bruno, see you around!  And good luck with the terrarium!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, that&#8217;s my only Biosphere story.  Here&#8217;s a Ted Talk on it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"334\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/JanePoynter_2009-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/JanePoynter-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=320&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=573\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Jane Poynter<\/strong> tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 &#8212; an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments. This is the first TED talk drawn from an independently organized TEDx event, held at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, I was at a going away party for Bruno. Bruno was a hard core scientist who was being brought into the Biosphere project down in Arizona to get it straightened out after a long period of bad press. One of the folks at the party was an archaeology graduate student, Ben, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/life-in-biosphere-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life in Biosphere 2<\/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":[],"tags":[4810,239],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Xh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739"}],"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=26739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}