{"48143":{"#nid":"48143","#data":{"type":"news","title":"David Hu\\\u0027s Work on Snake Slithering Featured on NPR Talk of the Nation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecret To Slithering Is In The Scales\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNPR \u003Cem\u003ETalk of the Nation \u003C\/em\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow do snakes slither on smooth surfaces? Mechanical engineer David Hu, of Georgia Tech, filmed snakes slithering up inclines, outfitted them in jackets and photographed them through jello to better understand snake locomotion...  And now that moment you\u0027ve all been waiting for, when we talk about the Video Pick of the Week, which is not frictional but fictional - no, not fictional but frictional...  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EListen to the segment at the following link:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=105310436\u0027\u003ESnake Slithering\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELink to David Hu\u0027s website:  \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hu.shtml\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hu.shtml\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"How do snakes slither on smooth surfaces? Georgia Tech\u0027s David Hu, PhD, filmed snakes slithering up inclines, outfitted them in jackets and photographed them through jello to better understand snake locomotion.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Secret to Slithering is in the Scales"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2009-06-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"300","name":"NPR"},{"id":"170929","name":"Slithering"},{"id":"169001","name":"Snake"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}