{"id":3786,"date":"2016-02-24T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/?page_id=3786"},"modified":"2016-02-24T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:36:50","slug":"hhmi-films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/pastconferences\/2016-conference\/2016-program\/hhmi-films\/","title":{"rendered":"HHMI Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"page-title\">HHMI Movie Night<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/poppedsecret-parentimage2-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3790 aligncenter img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/poppedsecret-parentimage2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"poppedsecret-parentimage2\" width=\"453\" height=\"255\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn<\/h3>\n<p>Ten thousand years ago, corn didn\u2019t exist anywhere in the world, and until recently scientists argued vehemently about its origins. Today the crop is consumed voraciously by us, by our livestock, and as a major part of processed foods. So where did it come from?\u00a0<em>Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of the genetic changes involved in the transformation of a wild grass called teosinte into corn.\u00a0 Evidence from genetics supports archaeological findings pinpointing corn\u2019s origins to a very particular time and place in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3789 aligncenter img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coelacanth-lg\" width=\"458\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2016\/02\/coelacanth-lg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Animated Life: The Living Fossil Fish<\/h3>\n<p>In 1938, South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer came across a strange blue fin poking out of a pile of fish. With its fleshy, lobed fins and its tough armored scales, the coelacanth did not look like any other fish that exists today. The coelacanth belongs to a lineage that has remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of millions of years\u2014earning it the description of a \u201cliving fossil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HHMI Movie Night \u00a0 Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn Ten thousand years ago, corn didn\u2019t exist anywhere in the world, and until recently scientists argued vehemently about its origins. Today the crop is consumed voraciously by us, by our livestock, and as a major part of processed foods. So where did it come from?\u00a0Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":3594,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3786\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/ldc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}