{"id":8538,"date":"2011-04-27T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2011-04-27T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T08:00:10","slug":"water-doesnt-put-out-this-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8538","title":{"rendered":"Water Doesn&#039;t Put Out This Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2011\/04\/25\/fire-ants-assemble-into-living-waterproof-rafts\/\">Fire ants assemble into living waterproof rafts<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What happens when you dump 8,000 fire ants into a tray of water? Nathan Mlot from the Georgia Institute of Technology wanted to find out. Mlot scooped the ants into a beaker, swirled it around to roll them into a ball, and decanted them into a half-filled tray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two can<br \/>\ncan<br \/>\na toucan but<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t<br \/>\ndecant<br \/>\nan ant<\/p>\n<p>(sorry; I seem to have contracted poetry.  A case of bad poetry.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the repeated attempts to push the ant-raft into the water<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2bdry7_5qck?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2bdry7_5qck?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire ants assemble into living waterproof rafts What happens when you dump 8,000 fire ants into a tray of water? Nathan Mlot from the Georgia Institute of Technology wanted to find out. Mlot scooped the ants into a beaker, swirled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8538\">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-8538","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\/8538","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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}