{"id":181,"date":"2009-11-25T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/11\/25\/another-great-accomplishment-by-a-berkeley-grad-student\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:58:35","slug":"another-great-accomplishment-by-a-berkeley-grad-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/11\/25\/another-great-accomplishment-by-a-berkeley-grad-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Another great accomplishment by a Berkeley grad student."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s just about Thanksgiving, but check out the runner-up in Wired&#8217;s contest for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/11\/wired-winners-best-halloween-costumes-2009\/\">best Halloween costume<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2009\/11\/halloween_comp.jpg\" title=\"halloween_comp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2009\/11\/halloween_comp.jpg\" alt=\"halloween_comp.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the cosmic microwave background radiation! Her name is Jessica Kirpatrick, and she&#8217;s a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, working with my old friend and former housemate <a href=\"http:\/\/bccp.lbl.gov\/personnel\/david_schlegel\/index.html\">David Schlegel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One or two Halloweens from now, this costume will be out of date: there should be a <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/science-e\/www\/object\/index.cfm?fobjectid=45543\">much better CMB map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kmganga.free.fr\/Kinede\/\">Ken Ganga<\/a> for passing this along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s just about Thanksgiving, but check out the runner-up in Wired&#8217;s contest for best Halloween costume: She&#8217;s the cosmic microwave background radiation! Her name is Jessica Kirpatrick, and she&#8217;s a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, working with my old friend and former housemate David Schlegel. One or two Halloweens from now, this costume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/11\/25\/another-great-accomplishment-by-a-berkeley-grad-student\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another great accomplishment by a Berkeley grad student.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}