{"id":102,"date":"2013-07-24T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:23:09","slug":"this-week-i-learned-4-24-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/07\/this-week-i-learned-4-24-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned #4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 24 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week (and hopefully, in future weeks) I’ll be trying something a bit different – I think I can dig up enough links to do this twice a week. So enjoy those below, and stay tuned for a second roundup on the weekend! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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  1. Sunken WW1 U-boats a bonanza for historians<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Caterpillars climb over each other in order to move faster<\/a>. (h\/t Christoph Nahr)<\/li>\n
  3. The caterpillars still probably can’t beat the world’s fastest lawnmower, which has a top speed of 130mph<\/a>. Unfortunately, it can only mow at 15. Watch the video ad – it’s quite funny.<\/li>\n
  4. “… a number of scientists say that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d of all things \u00e2\u20ac\u201d boredom is one of the biggest threats to a manned Mars mission, despite the thrill inherent in visiting another planet.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Wealth taxes: a future battleground<\/a>. For a different (Australian) take on it, check out this article<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. The Space Shuttles Atlantis and Enterprise, two years after the end of the program<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This week (and hopefully, in future weeks) I’ll be trying something a bit different – I think I can dig up enough links to do this twice a week. So enjoy those below, and stay tuned for a second roundup … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}