{"id":15672,"date":"2010-04-23T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/manga-and-skepticism-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:11:13","slug":"manga-and-skepticism-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/manga-and-skepticism-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Manga and skepticism | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saramayhew.com\/\">Sara Mayhew<\/a> is pretty cool. I am reminded of this by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticality.com\/\">her interview on Skepticality this week<\/a>, and I&rsquo;ve been meaning to write about her again anyway.<\/p><p>How do I know she&rsquo;s so cool? I mean, besides this being my blog which makes me the final arbiter of cool? And also that she linked to me <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/02\/26\/mail-from-the-skies\/\">in a fabulous cartoon she drew<\/a>?<\/p><p>She&rsquo;s cool because she&rsquo;s a skeptic and she draws manga and she&rsquo;s a TED fellow. And she&rsquo;s also pretty frakkin&rsquo; smart. And she spreads the joy of science and skepticism through her art. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YewnVH_JQEQ\">Behold<\/a>:<\/p><p>That, me droogs, is a very cool ad. And how can you not love someone who asks, \"Do we have the courage to let go of our beliefs, to grab on to what is true?\"<\/p><p>If you want more of her, then <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w_-RU8q6iiE\">check out the talk she gave at CfI LA<\/a> in March, and you too will see why I like her so much.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YM0ry8S06nVoG1jGtmNt0Fg_LOI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c2556_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YM0ry8S06nVoG1jGtmNt0Fg_LOI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c2556_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\/c2556_2fxHTFlgy8k\" 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\/c2556_D_ZdGW2Gw5w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Sara Mayhew is pretty cool. I am reminded of this by her interview on Skepticality this week, and I&rsquo;ve been meaning to write about her again anyway.How do I know she&rsquo;s so cool? I mean, besides this being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/manga-and-skepticism-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-15672","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\/15672"}],"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=15672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}