{"id":502,"date":"2008-10-02T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2008-10-02T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:32:52","slug":"theyre-small-but-theyre-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re small but they&#8217;re smart."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems appropriate to follow up my previous post on politics with one about insects.  We bought one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/interests\/giftsforkids\/6fd6\/\">Antworks ant habitats<\/a> recently.  It is filled with a NASA-developed transparent gel compound that the ants eat and tunnel through.  I thought it&#8217;d be fun to make a time lapse video of the ants tunneling their way through our gel.  Here it is, with a few small embellishments:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BUlPyz2gHVs\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BUlPyz2gHVs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BUlPyz2gHVs\">(youtube link)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is about seven days worth of tunneling compressed to less than a minute of footage.  You can see the daylight come and go in the background.<\/p>\n<p>A high-quality version is available if you click the youtube link and click the &#8220;watch in high quality&#8221; link under the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems appropriate to follow up my previous post on politics with one about insects. We bought one of those Antworks ant habitats recently. It is filled with a NASA-developed transparent gel compound that the ants eat and tunnel through. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bizarre","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}