{"id":416,"date":"2016-12-05T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/?p=416"},"modified":"2016-12-05T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:27:11","slug":"december-6-where-guinness-and-science-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/2016\/12\/05\/december-6-where-guinness-and-science-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"DECEMBER 6 &#8211; Where Guinness and Science collide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>6th December &#8211; Day 6<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On a recent\u00a0trip to a blood-brain barrier conference hosted by Trinity College, Dublin, two of our early career researchers, <span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Daniel Cohn<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Joe Chouhan<\/strong><\/span>, \u00a0had an opportunity to\u00a0mingle amongst\u00a0world leaders in the field of the Blood brain Barrier\u00a0and both learnt a host of new information from across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-398 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/IMG_2200-e1480884848957-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_2200\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/IMG_2200-e1480884848957-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/IMG_2200-e1480884848957-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Sealy Gosse- the inventor of the Student&#8217;s t test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An additional bonus of their trip was the discovery of William Sealy Gosset. Gosset, whilst working at Guinness, came up with the t-test to ensure quality was maintained between batches of the famous stout. Due to the policy of Guinness at the time, Gosset published his work under a psuedonym \u201cStudent\u201d, and so was created the Student t-test which many of us use to this day in parts of our scientific lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This info may be handy for the annual <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">Christmas Trivial Pursuit <\/span><\/strong>game\u00a0on science!<\/div>\n<div>P.S. The Guinness is better in Ireland!!&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6th December &#8211; Day 6 On a recent\u00a0trip to a blood-brain barrier conference hosted by Trinity College, Dublin, two of our early career researchers, Daniel Cohn and Joe Chouhan, \u00a0had an opportunity to\u00a0mingle amongst\u00a0world leaders in the field of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biosciadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}