{"id":3980,"date":"2007-02-24T07:41:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/24\/its-academic-really\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:58:06","slug":"its-academic-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/24\/its-academic-really\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Academic, Really&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6090,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/dna\\\/h2g2\\\/A741539&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100207235617\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/dna\\\/h2g2\\\/A741539&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 18:22:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:410}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 18:22:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:410},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6091,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/eukarya\\\/profile&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6092,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/eukarya\\\/586347.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The sea squirt has a very simple brain which is used only to find a suitable spot to root itself for life. Once it&#8217;s settled into a spot, it no longer needs the brain, so it eats it. This has been compared by at least one Researcher to a professor receiving tenure at a university.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A741539\" title=\"h2g2: Weird Animals\">Weird Animals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/eukarya\/profile\" alt=\"LiveJournal Profile: eukarya\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stat.livejournal.com\/img\/userinfo.gif\" alt=\"LiveJournal Profile: eukarya\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom; border: 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/eukarya\/586347.html\" alt=\"LiveJournal: eukarya\"><strong>eukarya<\/strong><\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sea squirt has a very simple brain which is used only to find a suitable spot to root itself for life. Once it&#8217;s settled into a spot, it no longer needs the brain, so it eats it. This has been compared by at least one Researcher to a professor receiving tenure at a university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,16],"class_list":["post-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}