{"id":191483,"date":"2009-08-13T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/great-another-plush-toy-my-children-will-demand\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T20:37:00","slug":"great-another-plush-toy-my-children-will-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/great-another-plush-toy-my-children-will-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Great, Another Plush Toy My Children will Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantmicrobes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img21.imageshack.us\/img21\/6985\/giantmicrobesnew3102340.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>First, it was Giant Gicrobes<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, and now we have ParticleZoo<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, foam filled representations of subatomic particles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.particlezoo.net\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img33.imageshack.us\/img33\/9915\/particlesplash3011666.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>They found the former at a museum, and I am honor bound to notify them of the latter, and so they will demand the fuzzy harbingers of entropy&#8230;.I find this all a bit&#8230;.strange.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In any case, I feel like I am the victim of some sort of twisted physics related drive-by.<\/p>\n<p>They also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.particlezoo.net\/physicsLOLcats.html\">physics Lolcat page<\/a>, go there if you dare.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some researchers at CERN actually used a special order Particle Zoo plushie in their roll-out of the single-top quark:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/03ffrEpvFXk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/03ffrEpvFXk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">It&#8217;s a physics pun.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">But no, this is not just a vehicle for a pun, my kids <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >are<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> heavily into Giant Microbes<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was Giant Gicrobes\u00ae, and now we have ParticleZoo\u00ae, foam filled representations of subatomic particles. They found the former at a museum, and I am honor bound to notify them of the latter, and so they will demand the fuzzy harbingers of entropy&#8230;.I find this all a bit&#8230;.strange.* In any case, I feel like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}