{"id":22403,"date":"2021-03-14T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22403"},"modified":"2021-03-12T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:03:01","slug":"what-you-gonna-do-when-you-get-out-of-jail-part-348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22403","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat you gonna do when you get out of jail?\u2026\u201d part 348"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science Sunday! And Happy Pi Day!<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to find some good Pi related videos on YouTube. Instead, I turned up a lot of crap about something called &#8220;Pi Coin&#8221;, which sounds to me like a scam cryptocurrency. (Is &#8220;scam cryptocurrency&#8221; redundant? In any case, I&#8217;m putting my money into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=47097\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DogeCoin<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I thought about posting some pie related videos, but I can&#8217;t quite stretch my definition of science that far.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe a grab bag of science randomness?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Make Guncotton (Nitrocellulose) With Hardware Store Ingredients, Again.&#8221; Never know when this might come in handy.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZ4G5rqKAJY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus #1: &#8220;The Rocket: Solid and Liquid Propellant Motors&#8221;. Vintage 1947, and a nice explanation of how solid and liquid propellant rockets work.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lnyDnruVpTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus #2: This is a little on the darker side, but I feel like there&#8217;s at least one person (besides me) who might find it interesting: &#8220;A History of Nerve Agents&#8221; with Dan Kaszeta, the author of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cGd3SP\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin&#8217;s Russia<\/a><\/strong> (affiliate link, but since this is from Oxford University Press, it&#8217;s a bit on the pricy side).<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7WunS8qCz0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Sunday! And Happy Pi Day! I was hoping to find some good Pi related videos on YouTube. Instead, I turned up a lot of crap about something called &#8220;Pi Coin&#8221;, which sounds to me like a scam cryptocurrency. (Is &#8220;scam cryptocurrency&#8221; redundant? In any case, I&#8217;m putting my money into DogeCoin.) I thought about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explosives","category-geek","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22417,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions\/22417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}