{"id":248,"date":"2016-07-23T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2016-07-23T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T22:32:29","slug":"today-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2016\/07\/today-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of Winchester Science Festival 2016. It&#8217;s an awesome event. If it happens next year: go!<\/p>\n<p>A few random facts that I learned today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average time between a rabbit being bought in a pet shop and it being taken to a rescue centre is 6 weeks but they live 8-10 years.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Rabbits make two types of poo &#8211; one (soft) designed to be eaten &#8211; they digest their food twice.<\/li>\n<li>I saw an amazing video of a &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=kra_9EMVZGM\">rabbit attacking a snake<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Quite how quickly atmospheric CO2 is rising &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/betterfigures.org\/2013\/02\/19\/the-pump-handle\/\">The pump handle graph<\/a>&#8216;<\/li>\n<li>In 1800 the UK had a life expectancy of about 40. It was even lower in almost all other countries.<\/li>\n<li>At this point we&#8217;ll need to do carbon capture (BECS) to keep climate change to 1.5C<\/li>\n<li>Deadly Nightshade is called Belladonna (&#8216;beautiful woman&#8217;) because the berry juice was applied with a feather to dilate ladies&#8217; pupil and make them look more attracted to a partner.  The active ingredient atropine causes hallucinations and larger doses ~1 berry causes death.<\/li>\n<li>Botulinum toxin (botox) is one of the most toxic things known to mankind. A pint could kill all living humans. Lethal dose is 1 nano-gram.<\/li>\n<li>The placenta has viral DNA, what makes us mammals are genes captured from viruses:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2012\/02\/14\/mammals-made-by-viruses\/#.V5PspkzTXqA\">Mammals were made by <\/a>viruses<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Unqualified&#8217; volunteers have analysed images on the GalaxyZoo website and discovered type Ia supernova which are a &#8216;standard candle&#8217;..which help is measure the distance to other galaxies. You can volunteer time to help a number of science projects at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/\">Zooniverse<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zooniverse talk was really inspiring, I&#8217;ll definitely be having a play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of Winchester Science Festival 2016. It&#8217;s an awesome event. If it happens next year: go! A few random facts that I learned today: The average time between a rabbit being bought in a pet shop and it being taken to a rescue centre is 6 weeks but they live 8-10 years.&nbsp; Rabbits make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}