{"id":2230,"date":"2008-06-12T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2008-07-06T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T17:01:08","slug":"disbeliefnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/disbeliefnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Disbelief.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/religulous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2231 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"religulous\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/religulous-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A clever retooling of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/\">beliefnet<\/a>, to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disbelief.net\">Bill Maher&#8217;s upcoming film, &#8220;Religulous&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve heard this video <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/underwire\/2008\/06\/cellphones-cant.html\">has been discredited<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmoica.fr\/video\/buzz-science\/faire-du-popcorn-avec-un-t-l-phone-portable.html\">but cellphones popping popcorn still makes for great entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Ringing the phones doesn&#8217;t help because they&#8217;re interfering with each other and receiving a signal [from a cellphone tower] &#8212; not transmitting it,&#8221; he said. Furthermore, while it is possible to heat with sound, it&#8217;s not likely to happen at the low volume emitted by a mobile phone. &#8220;It would be like gathering opera singers together to sing, and trying to make the corn pop,&#8221; Bloomfield said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/underwire\/2008\/06\/cellphones-cant.html\"><em>Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/disbeliefnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clever retooling of beliefnet, to promote Bill Maher&#8217;s upcoming film, &#8220;Religulous&#8221;. I&#8217;ve heard this video has been discredited, but cellphones popping popcorn still makes for great entertainment. &#8220;Ringing the phones doesn&#8217;t help because they&#8217;re interfering with each other and receiving a signal [from a cellphone tower] &#8212; not transmitting it,&#8221; he said. Furthermore, while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/disbeliefnet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disbelief.net&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/disbeliefnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}