{"592069":{"#nid":"592069","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why Flamingos Are More Stable on One Leg Than Two","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s how award-winning science writer and author \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Yong\u0022\u003EEd Yong\u003C\/a\u003E of The Atlantic\u0026nbsp;decribes the new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/13\/5\/20160948\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E from Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/young-chang\u0022\u003EYoung-Hui Chang\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\/people\/ting-lena.html\u0022\u003ELena Ting\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on how and why flamingos can stand on one leg for long periods of time. The subject matter is a great match for Yong\u0026#39;s talents; with a lively writing style, he describes the efforts that Chang and Ting put in to\u0026nbsp;understand this unique flamingo habit. Chang is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/cnl\/\u0022\u003EComparative Neuromechanics Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E. Ting is a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWallace Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-05-24 14:44:52","changed_gmt":"2017-05-24 16:43:36","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/05\/flamingos-one-leg\/527781\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592048":{"id":"592048","type":"image","title":"A flamingo at Zoo Atlanta. (Photo by Adam Thompson\/Zoo Atlanta.)","body":null,"created":"1495562883","gmt_created":"2017-05-23 18:08:03","changed":"1495562883","gmt_changed":"2017-05-23 18:08:03","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225633","name":"Flamingo #1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Flamingo%20%231.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Flamingo%20%231.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":599126,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Flamingo%20%231.jpg?itok=Ekp7F96T"}},"592042":{"id":"592042","type":"image","title":"Young-Hui Chang","body":null,"created":"1495562064","gmt_created":"2017-05-23 17:54:24","changed":"1495562064","gmt_changed":"2017-05-23 17:54:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225629","name":"Young-Hui Chang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Young-Hui%20Chang.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Young-Hui%20Chang.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":41392,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Young-Hui%20Chang.jpg?itok=vw-Wy4hF"}},"592044":{"id":"592044","type":"image","title":"Lena Ting","body":null,"created":"1495562306","gmt_created":"2017-05-23 17:58:26","changed":"1495562306","gmt_changed":"2017-05-23 17:58:26","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225630","name":"Lena Ting .png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lena%20Ting%20.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lena%20Ting%20.png","mime":"image\/png","size":332880,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lena%20Ting%20.png?itok=N9ohu3Za"}}},"media_ids":["592048","592042","592044"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"82671","name":"Wallace Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"169203","name":"Young-Hui Chang"},{"id":"2266","name":"Lena Ting"},{"id":"174497","name":"flamingos"},{"id":"8963","name":"biomechanics"},{"id":"6765","name":"zoo atlanta"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}