{"id":28167,"date":"2010-08-13T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/three-anniversaries-and-an-open-thread-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:00:18","slug":"three-anniversaries-and-an-open-thread-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/three-anniversaries-and-an-open-thread-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"Three anniversaries and an open thread | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2ad5_Celebrate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2356\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2ad5_Celebrate.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrate\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>I love anniversaries, and particularly when they coincide with one another. Today, I have <span>three<\/span> four causes for celebration:<\/p><ul><li>Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Sunday&rsquo;s post on the microbiome was my <strong>800th piece <\/strong>for Not Exactly Rocket Science (including all full-length posts, Pocket Science write-ups and opinion pieces, and excluding re-posts and the photo safaris).<\/li><li>Today is my <strong>fourth bloggiversary<\/strong> &ndash; NERS was born in August 13th 2006<\/li><li>Sometime in the last week, I got my <strong>3 millionth page view<\/strong> (including those from the WordPress and Scienceblogs incarnations).<\/li><li><strong>[Updated]<\/strong> And apparently, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edyong209\"><strong>I&rsquo;ve written 10,000 tweets<\/strong><\/a>! Thanks to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allochthonous\">Chris Rowan<\/a> for the tip.<\/li><\/ul><p>Woo, and I might add, hoo.<\/p><p>So in a tradition I started when I wrote my 600th post, <strong>this is an open thread<\/strong>. Feel free to ask\/talk about anything you want. I&rsquo;ll do my best to reply, time pending.<\/p><p>Cheers, and thanks for reading,<\/p><p>Ed<\/p><p><span><\/span><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/edyong209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dc6e_Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Not-Exactly-Rocket-Science\/209972267204?ref=ts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dc6e_Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/notrocketscience\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dc6e_Feed.jpg\" alt=\"Feed.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-Exactly-Rocket-Science-Yong\/dp\/1409242285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dc6e_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Book.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9dc6e_abDvR_mZDEU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love anniversaries, and particularly when they coincide with one another. Today, I have three four causes for celebration:Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Sunday&rsquo;s post on the microbiome was my 800th piece for Not Exactly Rocket Science (including all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/three-anniversaries-and-an-open-thread-not-exactly-rocket-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}