{"id":1618,"date":"2007-08-02T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/02\/next-a-simpsons-medical-textbook\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T20:28:11","slug":"next-a-simpsons-medical-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/02\/next-a-simpsons-medical-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Next: A Simpson&#8217;s medical textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/xin_3120704301027437122523.jpg?w=250\" alt='xin_3120704301027437122523.jpg' \/>I just love this story: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2007-07\/30\/content_6450253.htm\">an article<\/a> on multiple sclerosis at Xinhua, the Chinese news site, used a &#8220;file photo&#8221; of an X-ray that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9028723\">happens to be<\/a> a still image from The Simpson&#8217;s &#8212; namely, an X-ray of Homer&#8217;s brain. An editorial comment about MS patients? Unlikely. Tony Hung wonders whether it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepjiveinterests.com\/2007\/08\/02\/ripping-off-copyrighted-content-its-just-cultural-man\/\">a cultural thing<\/a>, and Joey deVilla at Global Nerdy thinks it might have something to do with the kind of animation used in <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnerdy.com\/2007\/08\/02\/homer-simpson-x-ray-used-in-medical-article-in-chinese-news\/\">Asian instruction manuals<\/a>. I think the explanation is pretty simple: the image is number three when you do a Google <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.ca\/images?q=x-ray&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi\">image search<\/a> for the term &#8220;X-ray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love this story: an article on multiple sclerosis at Xinhua, the Chinese news site, used a &#8220;file photo&#8221; of an X-ray that happens to be a still image from The Simpson&#8217;s &#8212; namely, an X-ray of Homer&#8217;s brain. An editorial comment about MS patients? Unlikely. Tony Hung wonders whether it&#8217;s a cultural thing, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/02\/next-a-simpsons-medical-textbook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Next: A Simpson&#8217;s medical textbook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}