{"id":37512,"date":"2022-10-08T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37512"},"modified":"2022-10-08T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:47:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/10\/08\/word-of-the-day-834\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Autotomy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the poem, Szymborska reflects on the creature\u2019s process of autotomy, casting off a part of the body while under threat, through the lens of survival and mortality. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw.org\/content\/autotomy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Poets &amp; Writers<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Specializing in the whimsical selection of non-authoritative sources.<\/p>\n<p>Noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2338218-ig-nobel-prizes-2022-the-unlikely-science-that-won-this-years-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Feedback<\/strong><\/a> column of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (24 September 2022, paywall), which, in this particular case, concerned itself, concerningly, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ig_Nobel_Prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Ig Nobel<\/strong><\/em><\/a> prizes for this year. Or perhaps 1986. I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Biology prize went to Solimary Garc\u00eda-Hern\u00e1ndez and Glauco Machado. They studied\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1749-4877.12604\">whether constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions<\/a>\u00a0and, if so, how. The scorpions\u2019 plight arises when they respond to a predator\u2019s attack by discarding their tail segments \u2013 an action called autotomy. Garc\u00eda-Hern\u00e1ndez and Machado explain: \u201cAfter autotomy, individuals lose nearly 25% of their body mass and the last portion of the digestive tract, including the anus, which prevents defecation and leads to constipation.\u201d Despite which, love, or whatever you call it, finds a way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autotomy: In the poem, Szymborska reflects on the creature\u2019s process of autotomy, casting off a part of the body while under threat, through the lens of survival and mortality. [Poets &amp; Writers] Specializing in the whimsical selection of non-authoritative sources. Noted in the Feedback column of NewScientist (24 September 2022, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/10\/08\/word-of-the-day-834\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37513,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512\/revisions\/37513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}