{"id":1721,"date":"2009-03-04T04:53:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T09:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2009-03-04T04:53:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T09:53:29","slug":"against-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1721","title":{"rendered":"Against the Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v23\/st6\">Swimming against the Tide<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[P]olymers in a solution that isn&#8217;t at a uniform temperature behaved in an unexpected way, with the longer molecules drifting toward the coldest region and the very shortest ones drifting toward the warmest region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminiscent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2688\">Brazil Nut<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1200\/is_20_160\/ai_80747803\">sorting problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming against the Tide [P]olymers in a solution that isn&#8217;t at a uniform temperature behaved in an unexpected way, with the longer molecules drifting toward the coldest region and the very shortest ones drifting toward the warmest region. Reminiscent of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1721\">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":[17,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","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=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}