{"id":757,"date":"2011-09-07T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-09-07T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:48:02","slug":"new-talkingscience-post-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/07\/new-talkingscience-post-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"New TalkingScience Post: Epidemic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_759\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ben_Franklin_Elementary_12_NOLA_Shaking_Hands.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-759\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-759 \" title=\"Ben_Franklin_Elementary_12_NOLA_Shaking_Hands\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ben_Franklin_Elementary_12_NOLA_Shaking_Hands-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ben_Franklin_Elementary_12_NOLA_Shaking_Hands-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ben_Franklin_Elementary_12_NOLA_Shaking_Hands-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ben_Franklin_Elementary_12_NOLA_Shaking_Hands.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo By Bart Everson, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TalkingScience now features our latest post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/09\/epidemic-the-handshake-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Epidemic! The Handshake Game.&#8221;<\/a> In the game, 4th through 8th graders learn a simple disease model by being an active participant in a mock \u201coutbreak\u201d of handshake disease. The game was created by Rebecca L Smith, DVM MS PhD, post-doctoral associate at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TalkingScience<\/a>, the project of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifri.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science Friday Initiative<\/a>, the nonprofit partner of the NPR radio program Science Friday. Other NIMBioS posts on Talking Science include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/08\/measuring-a-forest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Measuring a Forest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/07\/science-rocks-the-blight-of-the-hemlock\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science Rocks: The Blight of the Hemlock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/05\/squirrel-caching-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">Squirrel Caching Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/04\/quantifying-biodiversity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quantifying Biodiversity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/03\/herding-cats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Herding Cats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/03\/science-rocks-science-for-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science Rocks: Science for the People<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingscience.org\/2011\/03\/counting-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\">Counting Bears<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TalkingScience now features our latest post: &#8220;Epidemic! The Handshake Game.&#8221; In the game, 4th through 8th graders learn a simple disease model by being an active participant in a mock \u201coutbreak\u201d of handshake disease. The game was created by Rebecca &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/07\/new-talkingscience-post-epidemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,28,30],"tags":[16,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}