{"id":51465,"date":"2012-10-14T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=51465"},"modified":"2013-02-11T03:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:24:25","slug":"sunday-fun-oldest-message-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/14\/sunday-fun-oldest-message-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: Oldest Message in a Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A message written in 1914 and curled into a corked bottle was scooped out of the North Atlantic last month (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/09\/120918-oldest-message-in-a-bottle-science-history-messages\" target=\"_blank\">NatGeo<\/a>). \u00a0Not a love note, but a research instrument.<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/09\/138.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51468\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/09\/138.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/09\/138.jpg 759w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/09\/138-500x220.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0Glasgow School of Navigation sent 1,890 such bottles adrift, hoping to map deep ocean currents. \u00a0They were weighted to float just above the ocean floor. \u00a0The message inspires me to contemplate just how far our research methods have come in the last 98 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/09\/21\/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message written in 1914 and curled into a corked bottle was scooped out of the North Atlantic last month (NatGeo). \u00a0Not a love note, but a research instrument.The\u00a0Glasgow School of Navigation sent 1,890 such bottles adrift, hoping to map deep ocean currents. \u00a0They were weighted to float just above the ocean floor. \u00a0The message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,274],"class_list":["post-51465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-methodsuse-of-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51471,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465\/revisions\/51471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}