{"id":747536,"date":"2013-04-21T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74955"},"modified":"2013-04-21T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T14:35:17","slug":"a-new-ted-playlist-not-for-the-faint-of-heart-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747536","title":{"rendered":"A new TED Playlist not for the faint of heart: GROSS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/playlists\/93\/gross.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p>There\u2019s something oddly satisfying about hearing something gross &#8212; something that automatically scrunches your face and makes you cover your eyes, though maybe opening two fingers so that you can sort-of, kind-of see. That\u2019s why we created the new TED Playlist called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/93\/gross.html\">GROSS!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Included in this playlist: Marcel Dicke\u2019s rousing case for why we should eat insects. Kees Moeliker on how discovering a live duck copulating with a dead duck changed his life. And Marcus Byrne\u2019s love letter to the dance of the dung beetle, which allows it to roll poop over great distances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\">TED playlists<\/a>\u00a0are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context.\u00a0A new playlist is added every week. We hope you enjoy this installment.<\/p>\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74955\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74955\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/lFa9boTYk-U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something oddly satisfying about hearing something gross &#8212; something that automatically scrunches your face and makes you cover your eyes, though maybe opening two fingers so that you can sort-of, kind-of see. That\u2019s why we created the new TED Playlist called GROSS! Included in this playlist: Marcel Dicke\u2019s rousing case for why we should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-747536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38t2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747536","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\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}