{"id":4796,"date":"2010-02-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2010-02-10T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:00:00","slug":"is-that-what-i-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4796","title":{"rendered":"Is That What I Sound Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2010-02\/scientists-use-boombox-deter-plague-beetles\">To Deter Plague of Bark Beetles, A Boombox Blasting Bug Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he NAU scientists started by blasting rock music and backwards recordings of Rush Limbaugh (presumably because playing the Rush Limbaugh recordings forward is a punishment too terrible even for the beetles). Unfortunately, the beetles quickly became immune to the sounds of heavy metal and heavy bloviating.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers then struck back with an even more annoying sound: recordings of the beetles themselves. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It worked with then bugs, but would it work with Rush?  Somehow, I think not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Deter Plague of Bark Beetles, A Boombox Blasting Bug Sounds [T]he NAU scientists started by blasting rock music and backwards recordings of Rush Limbaugh (presumably because playing the Rush Limbaugh recordings forward is a punishment too terrible even for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4796\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","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=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}