{"id":15463,"date":"2010-04-21T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T08:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/comic-bang-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T08:10:26","slug":"comic-bang-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/comic-bang-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Comic BANG! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db50e_bangcover.jpg\" alt=\"bangcover\" width=\"200\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14312\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">I get a lot of books and such sent to me, and I rarely have time to look them over. It&rsquo;s a blessing and a curse, I guess. I want to see what everyone else is doing, but I&rsquo;m doing too much to look!<\/p><p>But I got an email from James Dunbar, asking if I&rsquo;d look over his rhyming verse comic book called <em>BANG! The Universe Verse<\/em>. He made it easy, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jldunbar.com\/JLDunbar.com\/BANG!.html\">since there&rsquo;s a small version online<\/a> I could look through.<\/p><p>I like it! It describes the Big Bang model using simple terms, and goes through the timeline breezily, making it easy to read. Someone unfamiliar with the science will get a passing familiarity with it from reading this, and enough info to go online and find out more.<\/p><p>And if you are familiar with the science, you might get a kick out of the drawings anyway. I really liked this one:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db50e_bang_page.jpg\" alt=\"bang_page\" width=\"288\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14304\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Clever use of visual similes, with the iris resembling an explosion. <\/p><p>BANG! is freely available as an e-book, and you can ping him if you want a PDF. He also sells a bound copy for $10, which is pretty reasonable given he&rsquo;s self-publishing it. <\/p><p>He&rsquo;s a talented guy, and I hope he can do more stuff like this. I wonder how many kids he can inspire to get more interested in science? <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Cwx9JaZRVvbj9h38_m2Yvr_1z3o\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db50e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Cwx9JaZRVvbj9h38_m2Yvr_1z3o\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db50e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db50e_OdPC7nUVQ2c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db50e_M1t7ftgv8uw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of books and such sent to me, and I rarely have time to look them over. It&rsquo;s a blessing and a curse, I guess. I want to see what everyone else is doing, but I&rsquo;m doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/comic-bang-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}