{"id":644,"date":"2013-06-04T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:33:12","slug":"driving-by-larch-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Driving by Larch Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/green-tech\/sustainable\/could-glow-in-dark-plants-replace-streetlights.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.tumblr.com\/fsjpj7f\/HIQmbec94\/glowing_plant_-_square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Glowing Plant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Would you want to live in a world that looks like a Pandora knockoff, or blares like the wall decorations of a stoner crash pad? What if you couldn\u2019t turn it off?<\/p>\n<p>Such were the questions raised when a Kickstarter campaign launched to \u201ccreate real glowing plants in a do-it-yourself biolab in California.\u201d At first, observers merely wondered if the technology could work. But as time passed, their questions moved on to more troubling concerns regarding the unregulated spreading of genetically modified seeds\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/green-tech\/sustainable\/could-glow-in-dark-plants-replace-streetlights.htm \" target=\"_blank\">Could glow-in-the-dark plants replace streetlights?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you want to live in a world that looks like a Pandora knockoff, or blares like the wall decorations of a stoner crash pad? What if you couldn\u2019t turn it off? Such were the questions raised when a Kickstarter campaign launched to \u201ccreate real glowing plants in a do-it-yourself biolab in California.\u201d At first, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving by Larch Light<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,60,12,84,14,3,13,207],"tags":[638,640,646,642,648,647,641,72,632,644,643,651,17,639,634,645,5,633,637,649,650,115,25,636,635],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-chemistry","category-consumer","category-genetics","category-green","category-science","category-technology","category-weird","tag-antony-evans","tag-arabidopsis-thaliana","tag-biobrick","tag-bioglow","tag-bioinformatics","tag-biosensors","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-climate-change","tag-diy","tag-dna","tag-dna-foundry","tag-e-coli","tag-environment","tag-genetic-modification","tag-glowing-plants","tag-igem","tag-inventors","tag-kickstarter","tag-kyle-taylor","tag-luciferase","tag-luciferin","tag-nanotechnology","tag-nature","tag-omri-amirav-drory","tag-synthetic-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}