{"id":5218,"date":"2010-12-17T07:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T11:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2010-12-13T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:55:37","slug":"heroes-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5218","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/sagan-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sagan Ornament\" title=\"Sagan Ornament\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Etsy seller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/eavesmade\">Eavesmade<\/a> specializes in &#8220;lasercut science goodness,&#8221; and creates wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/63320165\/heroes-of-science-non-denominational\">Heroes of Science<\/a> wooden Christmas ornaments.  The scientists offered are:<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Russel Wallace (evolution)<br \/>\nStephen Hawking (theoretical physics\/cosmology)<br \/>\nRosalind Franklin (genetics)<br \/>\nJohannes Kepler (mathematics\/astronomy)<br \/>\nMarie Curie (radiation\/chemistry)<br \/>\nNicolaus Copernicus (astronomy)<br \/>\nJane Goodall (primatology)<br \/>\nWilliam Harvey (medicine\/anatomy)<br \/>\nCarl Sagan (astronomy\/cosmology)<br \/>\nRachel Carson (ecology)<br \/>\nCarl Linnaeus (botany)<br \/>\nTycho Brahe (astronomy)<br \/>\nIsaac Newton (physics\/mathematics\/astronomy)<br \/>\nGregor Mendel (genetics\/heredity)<br \/>\nGalileo Galelei (physics\/mathematics\/astronomy)<br \/>\nAlbert Einstein (physics)<br \/>\nCharles Darwin (evolution)<br \/>\nGeorge Washington Carver (botany\/horticulture)<br \/>\nElizabeth Blackwell (first U.S. female physician)<br \/>\nDmitri Mendeleev (chemistry\/creator of first periodic table)<br \/>\nNikola Tesla<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the individual ornaments are currently sold out, but a full set is still available.  The price really isn&#8217;t bad for 21 individual ornaments, and this would be an awesome way to decorate a &#8220;theme&#8221; tree.<\/p>\n<p>According to the shop, next year they will also be featuring &#8216;lace-engraved scientist valentines&#8211;because nothing says &#8220;I love you&#8221; quite like Marie Curie or Gregor Mendel!&#8217;  Quite so.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/\">Skepchick<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etsy seller Eavesmade specializes in &#8220;lasercut science goodness,&#8221; and creates wonderful Heroes of Science wooden Christmas ornaments. The scientists offered are: Alfred Russel Wallace (evolution) Stephen Hawking (theoretical physics\/cosmology) Rosalind Franklin (genetics) Johannes Kepler (mathematics\/astronomy) Marie Curie (radiation\/chemistry) Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomy) Jane Goodall (primatology) William Harvey (medicine\/anatomy) Carl Sagan (astronomy\/cosmology) Rachel Carson (ecology) Carl Linnaeus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}