{"id":3518,"date":"2013-04-20T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2013-04-20T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:20:27","slug":"and-now-for-some-levity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"And Now for Some Levity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a week that saw a bombing in Boston, a fertilizer plant blow-up, a ridiculous assassination attempt on the President, an earthquake in China and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve missed <em>something<\/em>&#8230; how about <em>something<\/em> completely mindless.<\/p>\n<p>Well, almost.<\/p>\n<p>I received all of these via email and they were amusing enough that I figured why not put them here.<\/p>\n<p>First up, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k16940&amp;pageid=icb.page80863&amp;pageContentId=icb.pagecontent341734&amp;state=maximize&amp;view=view.do&amp;viewParam_name=indepth.html#a_icb_pagecontent341734\">link<\/a> to a video of some pendulums.  They are setup with a so that the frequency of each successive pendulum is 1 greater than the previous.  Some very cool patterns result.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t tickle your wick, then try reading the following paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno&#8217;t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae.  The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm.  This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe.  Azanmig huh?  Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Taht prgaarpah jsut aubot csaherd my selpl cehcekr.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of that.  Finally, another reading assignment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>7H15    M3554G3<br \/> 53RV35 7O PR0V3<br \/> H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N<br \/> D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!<br \/> 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!<br \/> 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG<br \/> 17 WA5 H4RD BU7<br \/> N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3<br \/> Y0UR M1ND 1S<br \/> R34D1NG 17<br \/> 4U70M471C4LLY<br \/> W17H 0U7 3V3N<br \/> 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,<br \/> B3 PROUD!  0NLY<br \/> C3R741N P30PL3 C4N<br \/> R3AD 7H15.<br \/> PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F<br \/> U C4N R34D 7H15.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No hints- I&#8217;ll only say it can be deciphered and read.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost totally mindless post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[315,314],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-pendulum-video","tag-reading-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}