{"id":1297,"date":"2003-07-16T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/07\/16\/1297.html"},"modified":"2003-07-16T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T15:45:37","slug":"word-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/07\/16\/word-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/002905.html#002905\">Making Light<\/a>, TNH pointed the other day to \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/feature\/data\/crow\/index.html\">Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows<\/a>,\" which includes a cool video clip of a crow creating a tool by bending wire.  Nifty stuff&#8212;I think I saw a pointer to this last year but I think I didn't watch the video at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in one of the comments to that post, someone referred to \"bird forebrain structures like the wulst.\"  Wulst.  Wulst.  It sounds like an alien race from a Jack Vance book.  A quick Google led me to an item titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockclimbing.com\/ascent\/index.php?AscentID=6132\">Ascent of Madame Grunnebaum's Wulst<\/a>\"&#8212;a remarkably evocative title if \"wulst\" is a part of the brain, but this seemed to be a rock-climbing site.  But then I saw that several other hits on the term were in German, so I used Babelfish to determine that \"wulst\" means \"bulge\" in German.  So presumably the initial consonant is a \/v\/ sound.<\/p>\n<p>But it's still a funny word.  Say it with me: wulst.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Making Light, TNH pointed the other day to &#8220;Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows,&#8221; which includes a cool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}