{"id":1697,"date":"2012-09-29T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2012-09-29T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T19:03:42","slug":"and-now-for-some-real-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"And Now For Some Real Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Introduction to Genetics and Evolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a 10 week on-line course being offered by Duke Universities Dr. Mohamed Noor- the Earl D. McLean Professor and Associate Chair of Biology at Duke. The course is free, it begins on October 10th and\u00c2\u00a0is resonably uncomplicated. To sign up go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/#course\/geneticsevolution\">https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/#course\/geneticsevolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Introduction to Genetics and Evolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a 10 week on-line course being offered by Duke Universities Dr. Mohamed Noor- the Earl D. McLean Professor and Associate Chair of Biology at Duke. The course is free, it begins on October 10th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-rn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=84","url_meta":{"origin":1697,"position":0},"title":"Genetics team coming to Florida","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In the news today: A multimillion-dollar deal will bring a top group of genetics researchers from Duke University to the University of Miami. 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