{"id":2013,"date":"2008-07-29T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T02:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2008-07-29T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T02:59:08","slug":"the-bar-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/29\/the-bar-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bar Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at Caltech&#8217;s PR office sure was having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/content\/press\">fun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Caltech Astronomers Describe the Bar Scene at the Beginning of the Universe<\/b><br \/>\nPASADENA, Calif.&#8211;Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years, indicating that spiral galaxies evolve in shape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, I can tell you all about the bar scene near Caltech.  Dive bar: The Colorado.  Beer for graduate students: Lucky Baldwin&#8217;s.  Quantum margarita night: Amigos.  Quantum beer night: drive five hours north to Albatross in Berkeley, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at Caltech&#8217;s PR office sure was having fun: Caltech Astronomers Describe the Bar Scene at the Beginning of the Universe PASADENA, Calif.&#8211;Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/29\/the-bar-scene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bar Scene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,11,17,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-best-title-ever","category-caltech","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}