{"id":2125,"date":"2015-01-07T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2015-01-07T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:38:50","slug":"wednesday-7-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/07\/wednesday-7-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 7 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:39 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> My beta copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foldscope.com\/\">Foldscope<\/a> showed up yesterday. These $1 microscopes are not toys; far from it. They&#8217;re intended for educational use and also for diagnostic use in the field. They come in several variants, including brightfield, darkfield, and polarizing, and in different fixed magnifications up to 1,200X.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Foldscope beta project distributed 10,000 of these microscopes, including one to me. Their initial goal is to get a bunch of these into people&#8217;s hands and assemble documentation from contributed articles about various aspects of using the scopes. I plan to contribute a section or two myself anonymously and in the public domain. Once the scopes are available for sale commercially, we&#8217;ll probably start including one in every biology kit we ship. Maybe every kit, period.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;m making up chemicals for chemistry and biology kits today, and may have time to get started on bottling them as well.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:39 &#8211; My beta copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foldscope.com\/\">Foldscope<\/a> showed up yesterday. These $1 microscopes are not toys; far from it. They&#8217;re intended for educational use and also for diagnostic use in the field. They come in several variants, including brightfield, darkfield, and polarizing, and in different fixed magnifications up to 1,200X.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Foldscope beta project distributed 10,000 of these microscopes, including one to me. Their initial goal is to get a bunch of these into people&#8217;s hands and assemble documentation from contributed articles about various aspects of using the scopes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/07\/wednesday-7-january-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 7 January 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}