{"id":899,"date":"2010-09-12T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/09\/sunday_snippets\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T05:41:02","slug":"sunday-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/09\/sunday-snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"sunday snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The need (not urge, need!) to do housework finally caught up with me this weekend, &amp; now that&#8217;s over I really need to do some final preparation for my classes tomorrow. So here are a few snippets to tide you over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I drive a white car; have done for a long time &amp; several vehicle replacements. And doing an idle count in the supermarket parking lot, so do quite a few other people. So of course I was interested in a post in the&nbsp;<i>Boston Globe<\/i>, that wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/09\/05\/ghost_fleet\/?page=full\">why white is such a popular colour for cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an on-going thread on vaccination over at SciblogsNZ that&#8217;s generating a bit of heat at the moment. To add to your understanding of how the immune system works, <a href=\"http:\/\/diseaseoftheweek.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/11\/how-do-vaccines-work-pt-1\/\">you shouldn&#8217;t go past a post by James Byrne<\/a> at&nbsp;<i>Disease of the week:<\/i> there&#8217;s also a powerfully written <a href=\"http:\/\/diseaseoftheweek.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/04\/open-letter-to-anti-vaccinationists\/\">open letter to anti-vaccinationists<\/a>&nbsp;on the same website.<\/p>\n<p>I realised after I posted my last little list of fun things to read that &#8216;beer&#8217; had cropped up in more than one of those lists. 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