{"id":7311,"date":"2010-12-10T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:00:30","slug":"i-calculate-that-its-all-greek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7311","title":{"rendered":"I Calculate That It&#039;s All Greek to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2010\/12\/the-unbearable-lightness-of-lego.html\">Cocktail Party Physics:  the unbearable lightness of LEGO<\/a> (with some good detail and history to be found there), a LEGO\u2122 reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RLPVCJjTNgk?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RLPVCJjTNgk?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smallmammal.com\/post\/2156532687\/behind-the-scenes-lego-antikythera-mechanism\">How (and why) they did it.<\/a>  The &#8220;why&#8221; part works on a lot of geeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Cocktail Party Physics: the unbearable lightness of LEGO (with some good detail and history to be found there), a LEGO\u2122 reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video &nbsp; How &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7311\">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":[21,39,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","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=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}