{"id":649075,"date":"2020-03-12T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=649075"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:30:08","slug":"monty-pythons-silly-walk-a-gait-analysis-and-wake-up-call-to-peer-review-inefficiencies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=649075","title":{"rendered":"Monty Python&#039;s silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, Monty Python&#8217;s famous sketch, &#8220;The Ministry of Silly Walks,&#8221; first aired on BBC One. The sketch pokes fun at the inefficiency of government bureaucracy. It opens with the Minister (John Cleese) walking in a rather unusual manner to his work, the Ministry of Silly Walks, where Mr. Pudey (Michael Palin) is waiting to meet with him to apply for a government grant to develop his silly walk. In the spirit of Monty Python&#8217;s humor, based on an actual gait analysis, a Dartmouth research team finds that the Minister&#8217;s silly walk is 6.7 times more variable than a normal walk. The findings are published in Gait &amp; Posture.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-03-monty-python-silly-gait-analysis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Monty Python&#8217;s silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, Monty Python&#8217;s famous sketch, &#8220;The Ministry of Silly Walks,&#8221; first aired on BBC One. The sketch pokes fun at the inefficiency of government bureaucracy. It opens with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}