{"id":128,"date":"2018-06-23T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-06-23T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:36:01","slug":"sciencemag-02018-06-15-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"@sciencemag 02018\/06\/15 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was a less than typical issue for catching my interest.\u00a0 The news blurb on NASA priorities was good &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/2018\/06\/06\/majority-of-americans-believe-it-is-essential-that-the-u-s-remain-a-global-leader-in-space\/\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/06\/nasa-s-bridenstine-signals-reprieve-endangered-climate-missions\">interview w\/ Bridenstine<\/a> (NASA Administrator).\u00a0 The update on the status of the Baobab trees was sad:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-05411-7\">Africa&#8217;s strange, old baobab trees are dying (a Nature article, highlighted by Science).<\/a>\u00a0 Update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/360\/6394\/1158\">potential for the U.S. getting coordinated and funded for quantum research<\/a> is hopeful.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/360\/6394\/1204\">article<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/360\/6394\/1188\">insight<\/a> on machine learning for imagery was also interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was a less than typical issue for catching my interest.\u00a0 The news blurb on NASA priorities was good &#8211; the Pew Research Center survey and the interview w\/ Bridenstine (NASA Administrator).\u00a0 The update on the status of the Baobab trees was sad:\u00a0 Africa&#8217;s strange, old baobab trees are dying (a Nature article, highlighted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@sciencemag 02018\/06\/15 highlights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}