{"id":9220,"date":"2019-09-02T23:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2019-09-02T23:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:42:52","slug":"liysf-2019-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/09\/02\/liysf-2019-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"LIYSF 2019: Day 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9226 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346-320x240.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/B02996E7-90F7-4833-94E2-CBA02ED6D346.jpeg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For our first day in France we visited the Cit\u00e9 des sciences et de l\u2019industrie. The site fills three stories devoted to scientific inquiry, containing a vast array of interactive displays and thought-provoking exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/C0577C12-8370-47F2-91C5-A1A42C5BAD3B.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9222 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/C0577C12-8370-47F2-91C5-A1A42C5BAD3B-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/C0577C12-8370-47F2-91C5-A1A42C5BAD3B-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/C0577C12-8370-47F2-91C5-A1A42C5BAD3B-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>There was a genetics exhibit with an entire wall dedicated to the Human Genome Project. Every gene on every chromosome was detailed, reminding me of the genomics research that I took part in this year under Dr James Bedard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9224 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/2788A400-D2C9-4147-AC3B-248C309E4A0D-300x213.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/2788A400-D2C9-4147-AC3B-248C309E4A0D-300x213.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/2788A400-D2C9-4147-AC3B-248C309E4A0D-768x546.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/2788A400-D2C9-4147-AC3B-248C309E4A0D-1024x728.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another highlight was the astrophysics exhibit, which included an interactive tour of the cosmos, a walkthrough of its history, and a discussion of the origins of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/498AFA34-FAA9-42FF-81CF-22B7B6C9DD8C.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9225 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/498AFA34-FAA9-42FF-81CF-22B7B6C9DD8C-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/498AFA34-FAA9-42FF-81CF-22B7B6C9DD8C-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/498AFA34-FAA9-42FF-81CF-22B7B6C9DD8C-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Later this evening we got to spend time wandering the city of Paris. I will never get tired of the architecture in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle St-Martin<\/p>\n<p>August 8 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our first day in France we visited the Cit\u00e9 des sciences et de l\u2019industrie. The site fills three stories devoted to scientific inquiry, containing a vast array of interactive displays and thought-provoking exhibits. There was a genetics exhibit with an entire wall dedicated to the Human Genome Project. Every gene on every chromosome was &#8230; <a title=\"LIYSF 2019: Day 16\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/09\/02\/liysf-2019-day-16\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":9223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trips","category-science-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/9274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}