{"id":2827,"date":"2009-06-15T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2009-06-15T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T08:00:13","slug":"not-quite-the-red-badge-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2827","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite the Red Badge of Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/we_dont_need_no_stinkin_badges.php\">Heisenbergian one<\/a>, I discover the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/\">Science Scout Merit Badges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cI blog about science\u201d badge.  <em>Obviously<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cscience deprives me of my bed\u201d badge (LEVEL II)  <em>Two week at Cornell&#8217;s Nanofabrication Lab (NNF)<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cbroken heart for science\u201d badge  <em>I just had to go to grad school \u2026<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cnon-explainer\u201d badge (LEVEL I)  <em>My mom still introduces me as a nuclear physicist<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cwhat I do for science dictates my having to wash my hands before I use the toilet\u201d badge.  <em>On occasion \u2026<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cworks with acids\u201d badge.  <em>HF scares me, but I used it at the NNF<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cI\u2019ve set fire to stuff\u201d badge (LEVEL III)  <em>&#8217;nuff said<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cexperienced with electrical shock\u201d badge (LEVEL III)  <em>I remember &#8220;locating&#8221; the 400V leads to the piezo stack on the confocal cavity while adjusting some optics<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cI\u2019ve done science with no conceivable practical application\u201d badge.  <em>TRIUMF<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cI work with way too much radioactivity, and yet still no discernable superpowers yet\u201d badge.  <em>TRIUMF again, and time in 5 nuclear power plants while in the navy<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201chas frozen stuff just to see what happens\u201d badge (LEVEL III)  <em>Ah, the joys of Liquid nitrogen<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cdestroyer of quackery\u201d badge.  <em>Got my start at talk.origins on USENET<\/em><br \/>\nThe \u201cinappropriate nocturnal use of lab equipment in the name of alternative science experimentation \/ communication\u201d badge.  <em>If you&#8217;ve got it, use it!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Heisenbergian one, I discover the Science Scout Merit Badges The \u201cI blog about science\u201d badge. Obviously The \u201cscience deprives me of my bed\u201d badge (LEVEL II) Two week at Cornell&#8217;s Nanofabrication Lab (NNF) The \u201cbroken heart for science\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2827\">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":[46,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}