{"id":161,"date":"2009-09-17T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-09-17T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:31:02","slug":"sad-franklin-on-constitution-day-interesting-nature-photos-health-care-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/sad-franklin-on-constitution-day-interesting-nature-photos-health-care-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Franklin on Constitution Day, Interesting Nature Photos, Health Care and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Constitution Day<\/a>!\u00a0 And all of Philadelphia’s libraries may be closing<\/a> as soon as October 2nd.\u00a0 I can just see Benjamin Franklin rolling over in his grave.\u00a0 It’s a sad day when one of the institutions that helped form our society (and remains a necessary service) can be neglected in this way.<\/p>\n

On the flipside, I think Mr. Franklin would love the citizen involvement with science that new software for Android phones<\/a> (and soon iPhones) creates.\u00a0 It seems anyone can access a database of information about a project and upload their own information about that project, complete with GPS coordinates and everything.<\/p>\n

Nature is fascinating, and I like to look at the fantastic pictures offered by photographers.\u00a0 One newly-photographed animal is the golden cat<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently it’s quite elusive and we have little opportunity to study it.\u00a0 Too bad – it’s such a beautiful specimen!\u00a0 A less beautiful, but equally fascinating, find is this snake with a foot<\/a>.\u00a0 Yup – a snake.\u00a0 With a single foot.\u00a0 Kinda creepy?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Fascinating and awe-inspiring?\u00a0 You bet!\u00a0 And here, just for fun, are some very cool pictures<\/a> of all kinds of animals.<\/p>\n

With the Planck telescope, we are beginning to be able to look back in time<\/a>, thanks to the nature of light.\u00a0 Since my understanding of physics is limited at best, I suggest you read the article<\/a> for further information.\u00a0 My lame attempts to summarize would probably be completely wrong.\u00a0 But I understand planets… at least on a basic level!\u00a0 And a newly discovered planet, Corot-7b,\u00a0 seems to have a solid, rocky surface<\/a>.\u00a0 This isn’t to say it could support life or anything – just that it’s a rare find when most planets outside our solar system are gaseous.<\/p>\n

And back to health care.\u00a0 It’s a big topic, and worthy of much discussion.\u00a0 This article<\/a> takes us on a trip through government spending and asks questions about priorities.\u00a0 I’ve always wondered why we spend inordinate amounts of money on military prowess, space exploration, etc. when we can’t even get our homeless off the streets and our sick taken care of.\u00a0 Perhaps we should, as a society, reevaluate our values and priorities.\u00a0 Because without healthy people and proper roofs over our heads, all the military and space spending won’t do a bit of good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Constitution Day!\u00a0 And all of Philadelphia’s libraries may be closing as soon as October 2nd.\u00a0 I can just see Benjamin Franklin rolling over in his grave.\u00a0 It’s a sad day when one of the institutions that helped form our society (and remains a necessary service) can be neglected in this way. On the flipside, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[35,44,63,71],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethics","tag-health","tag-nature","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}