{"id":667035,"date":"2010-02-17T09:54:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:41:44","slug":"headed-to-san-diego-for-aaas-2010-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667035","title":{"rendered":"Headed to San Diego for AAAS 2010 | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time last year, an unexpected trip to the hospital led to an anesthesia mistake giving me <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspiration_pneumonia\">aspiration pneumonia<\/a>. Although I recognized how serious the situation was, I was also very <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2009\/02\/11\/a-note-from-sheril\/\">sad<\/a> to miss my favorite annual science event: The 2009 <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/meetings\/\">AAAS meeting<\/a> in Chicago&#8211;including The Science of Kissing <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/staticrel.php?view=aaas2009meetingadvance011309\">symposium<\/a> I had helped organize for Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, one year later I&#8217;m extremely grateful to be healthy, fully recovered, and on my way to attend the 2010 meeting with <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/02\/03\/congratulations-dr-lowry\/\">David<\/a>. And I&#8217;m also delighted to be joining the AAAS program committee. Most of all, I&#8217;m looking forward to catching up with friends in science, journalism, policy&#8211;and especially, a few former <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.seagrant.noaa.gov\/knauss\/index.html\">Sea Grant Fellows<\/a>. And CM too of course.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging may be light during the conference, but expect some upcoming posts on what&#8217;s happening in San Diego&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5AyPkQULwcglQJzuKXxcH1XVN18\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5AyPkQULwcglQJzuKXxcH1XVN18\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5AyPkQULwcglQJzuKXxcH1XVN18\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5AyPkQULwcglQJzuKXxcH1XVN18\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/QmvzANwSBAw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time last year, an unexpected trip to the hospital led to an anesthesia mistake giving me aspiration pneumonia. Although I recognized how serious the situation was, I was also very sad to miss my favorite annual science event: The 2009 AAAS meeting in Chicago&#8211;including The Science of Kissing symposium I had helped organize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NwD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768498,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667035\/revisions\/768498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}