{"id":33,"date":"2014-12-07T19:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:23:24","slug":"babbage-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/2014\/12\/07\/babbage-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Babbage brain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brains&#8230; brains&#8230; scientist brains&#8230; No! Really, I have seen a real human brain in a tank! Remember that post about Ada Lovelace? Well this brain is Charles Babbage&#8217;s right side of cerebellum! Wow! Isn&#8217;t it cool and\/or slimy?<\/p>\n<p>It was at the Science Museum in London.  We went to the museum on Thanksgiving with one of Mum&#8217;s friends.<\/p>\n<p>Charles&#8217;s son, Henry, donated it for dissection and examination. That is, cut apart and looked at. Ew again! Sorry if this brain talk is being a bit too gross. Hmm. Let me go get my notes. Hey! I am back! And my notes say that a guy called Horsley dissected it in the 1990s so he could examine it for what made Babbage so smart! He did this to a few other scientists brains too! Ok I will stop now before I get too gross even for myself!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/babbagebrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/babbagebrain-574x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Babbage&#039;s Brain\" width=\"474\" height=\"845\" class=\"size-large wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/babbagebrain-574x1024.jpg 574w, https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/babbagebrain-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/babbagebrain.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is THE BRAIN.  Mum took the photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brains&#8230; brains&#8230; scientist brains&#8230; No! Really, I have seen a real human brain in a tank! Remember that post about Ada Lovelace? Well this brain is Charles Babbage&#8217;s right side of cerebellum! Wow! Isn&#8217;t it cool and\/or slimy? It was at the Science Museum in London. We went to the museum on Thanksgiving with one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/2014\/12\/07\/babbage-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babbage brain.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-homeschooling","category-london","category-technologycomputers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peowebster.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}