{"id":4349,"date":"2009-12-09T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2009-12-09T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:00:36","slug":"i-do-appreciate-you-being-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4349","title":{"rendered":"I Do Appreciate You Being Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/08\/science\/08angier.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">The Circular Logic of the Universe<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sphere is also tough. For a given surface area, it\u2019s stronger than virtually any other shape. If you want to make a secure container using the least amount of material, Dr. Liebovitch said, make that container round. \u201cThat\u2019s why, when you cook a frankfurter, it always splits in the long direction,\u201d he said, rather than along its circumference. The curved part has the tensile strength of a sphere, the long axis that of a rectangle: no contest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Circular Logic of the Universe A sphere is also tough. For a given surface area, it\u2019s stronger than virtually any other shape. If you want to make a secure container using the least amount of material, Dr. Liebovitch said, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4349\">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":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","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=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}