{"id":16793,"date":"2015-10-09T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=16793"},"modified":"2015-10-11T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T20:46:36","slug":"friday-fun-whales-and-lights-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16793","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Whales and Lights Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-34462536\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/whalelights.jpg\" alt=\"screen shot of BBC News web page showing video of whales swimming under Aurora Borealis\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>I couldn&#8217;t resist blogging about this, I guess, because it was such a beautiful image on the news earlier this week: whales swimming under the northern lights, an image captured by a Norwegian TV station.<\/p>\n<p>Click the screenshot, and then I recommend going to full screen display of the video. It&#8217;s lovely. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about whales, the northern lights, and even the benefits of experiencing nature, from resources available via Andersen Library, <em>e.g.<\/em>, the book <em>In the light of the aurora<\/em> published by the Nordic Council of Ministers as an introduction to auroral research (online via <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/site.ebrary.com\/lib\/whitewater\" target=\"_blank\">ebrary<\/a>), in which you can learn that &#8220;[n]orthernmost Europe has the highest density anywhere in the world of research institutions at which scientists actually live under the aurora.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> (chat or email, phone 262.472.1032, or visit the Reference Desk) for help with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist blogging about this, I guess, because it was such a beautiful image on the news earlier this week: whales swimming under the northern lights, an image captured by a Norwegian TV station. Click the screenshot, and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[110558,52257,178,883,220,350,657,120,110557,228,658,26378],"class_list":["post-16793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-beauty","tag-books","tag-ebooks","tag-fun-stuff","tag-images","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-northern-lights","tag-science","tag-web-sites","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}