{"id":319,"date":"2008-07-24T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2008-07-24T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:40:43","slug":"shrink-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/shrink-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrink ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird description of nanotechnology on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/safety-nanotechnology-products-no-small\/story.aspx?guid={4A261609-77CC-4C77-8BA8-0E959B306E64}&#038;dist=msr_1\">Marketwatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nanotechnology &#8212; the science of reducing materials to tiny sizes with new properties &#8212; already has been used in more than 600 products in the U.S. market&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just an odd way of phrasing it. Over the years*, I&#8217;ve written bunches** of press releases about nanotechnology and never have I described the field as the science of shrinking things. <\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Today on the Lstrblg...<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/shrink-ray\/#_is_there_a_phrase_more_likely_to_stimulate_a_yawn_response_roughly_lots\" >* is there a phrase more likely to stimulate a yawn response? \n** roughly, lots.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_is_there_a_phrase_more_likely_to_stimulate_a_yawn_response_roughly_lots\"><\/span>\n<p>* is there a phrase more likely to stimulate a yawn response?<br \/>\n** roughly, lots.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird description of nanotechnology on Marketwatch: Nanotechnology &#8212; the science of reducing materials to tiny sizes with new properties &#8212; already has been used in more than 600 products in the U.S. market&#8230; Just an odd way of phrasing it. Over the years*, I&#8217;ve written bunches** of press releases about nanotechnology and never have I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-59","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}