{"id":970,"date":"2009-07-21T22:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-07-21T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T22:53:12","slug":"smelloscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Smelloscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my favorite cartoon series of television, Futurama, there is an aging science professor with many fictitious inventions. One of them is the smelloscope: a device used to detect, amplify, and measure smells.<\/p>\n<p>Except that this device is not fictitious. They might not call it a smelloscope, but CBC News was using it nonetheless to measure that unpleasant consequences of Toronto&#8217;s ongoing municipal strike:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_971\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"size-full wp-image-971\" title=\"Smelloscope\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smelloscope.jpg\" alt=\"Smelloscope in Toronto\" width=\"429\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smelloscope.jpg 429w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smelloscope-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smelloscope in Toronto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ah, the wonders of modern science. Is there nothing in fiction that does not eventually get turned into reality?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=970' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my favorite cartoon series of television, Futurama, there is an aging science professor with many fictitious inventions. One of them is the smelloscope: a device used to detect, amplify, and measure smells. Except that this device is not fictitious. They might not call it a smelloscope, but CBC News was using it <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=970' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}