{"id":8926,"date":"2017-04-25T21:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T04:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2017-04-25T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T04:47:50","slug":"verbose-mode-mightyohm-com-geiger-counter-kit-and-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/verbose-mode-mightyohm-com-geiger-counter-kit-and-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbose Mode: Mightyohm.com Geiger Counter Kit and Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xl-hjlt5yY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chad Lawson is posting a series of videos about learning to make things on his site at <a href=\"http:\/\/verbosemode.tv\/\">verbosemode.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/verbosemode.tv\/mightyohm-com-geiger-counter-kit-and-radiation\/\">his most recent video<\/a>, Chad talks about radiation, radiation therapy, and his experiences building (and fixing) the <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/geiger\">MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the kind words, Chad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Lawson is posting a series of videos about learning to make things on his site at verbosemode.tv. In his most recent video, Chad talks about radiation, radiation therapy, and his experiences building (and fixing) the MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit. Thanks for the kind words, Chad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[401,405,45],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kits","tag-geiger","tag-reviews","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-2jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4221,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/flying-with-the-geiger-counter-kit\/","url_meta":{"origin":8926,"position":0},"title":"Flying with the Geiger Counter Kit","author":"Jeff","date":"October 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortly after my Geiger counter workshop at the Chaos Communications Camp in Germany, @tatzelbrumm sent me this video of his kit chirping madly on his flight home to the United States. 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