{"id":11496,"date":"2012-04-18T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11496"},"modified":"2012-04-18T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T08:00:33","slug":"shut-your-pot-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11496","title":{"rendered":"Shut Your Pot Hole!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/04\/silly-putty-for-potholes.html?\">Silly Putty for Potholes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So we were putzing around with different ideas and things we wanted to work with\u2014and we were like, what&#8217;s a common, everyday problem all around the world that everybody hates?&#8221; explains 21-year-old team member Curtis Obert. &#8220;And we landed on potholes.&#8221; He and four other students decided on a non-Newtonian fluid as a solution because of its unusual physical properties. &#8220;When there&#8217;s no force being applied to it, it flows like a liquid does and fills in the holes,&#8221; says Obert, &#8220;but when it gets run over, it acts like a solid.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly Putty for Potholes So we were putzing around with different ideas and things we wanted to work with\u2014and we were like, what&#8217;s a common, everyday problem all around the world that everybody hates?&#8221; explains 21-year-old team member Curtis Obert. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}