{"id":13119,"date":"2005-10-27T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/how-to-keep-four-feet-on-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T22:25:00","slug":"how-to-keep-four-feet-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/how-to-keep-four-feet-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Keep Four Feet On The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confounded by tables whose uneven legs caused him to spill coffee, physicist Andr\u00e9 Martin has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2005\/051024\/full\/051024-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">mathematically proven that &ldquo;within reasonable limits, it is always possible to rotate the table to a position where all four legs stand solidly on the ground.&rdquo;<\/a>  As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"_blank\">FARK<\/a> would say, &ldquo;still no cure for cancer.&rdquo; ;-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113043092314765833?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confounded by tables whose uneven legs caused him to spill coffee, physicist Andr\u00e9 Martin has mathematically proven that &ldquo;within reasonable limits, it is always possible to rotate the table to a position where all four legs stand solidly on the ground.&rdquo; As FARK would say, &ldquo;still no cure for cancer.&rdquo; ;-p via Boing Boing tags: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/how-to-keep-four-feet-on-the-ground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How To Keep Four Feet On The Ground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}