{"id":15874,"date":"2010-04-24T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-york-times-depicts-life-on-venus-and-mars%e2%80%a6-in-1912-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:00:31","slug":"new-york-times-depicts-life-on-venus-and-mars%e2%80%a6-in-1912-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-york-times-depicts-life-on-venus-and-mars%e2%80%a6-in-1912-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"New York Times depicts life on Venus and Mars\u2026 in 1912 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cooler blogs out there is Ironic Sans by David Friedman (the same guy who made <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/02\/idea_scientist_valentines.html\">scientific Valentine cards<\/a>). He&rsquo;s started a new blog called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2010\/04\/announcing_a_new_blog_sundaymagazine_org.html\">SundayMagazine.org<\/a>, where posts and discusses old issues of the New York Times Sunday Magazine from the ancient archives. <\/p><p>In his first one, he found quite the catch:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/be98f_nyt_sundaymag1912.jpg\" alt=\"nyt_sundaymag1912\" width=\"610\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14167\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>How cool is that? The article is about a lettered French scientist speculating about what life would be like on other planets. David has a PDF of the article as well, which is an absolute delight to read. How wonderful to see something like that; an apparently scientifically-minded article, but free to have fun and take the reader to a totally different place than what they might expect!<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s inspiring, in fact. Given that kind of freedom today, I wonder what other famous scientists of today would write about. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R0rpjvZhovXgeZSa07VdlSp28dM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cf549_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R0rpjvZhovXgeZSa07VdlSp28dM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cf549_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\/cf549_8vdizWpSFR4\" 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\/cf549_9yo0iiRrcLM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cooler blogs out there is Ironic Sans by David Friedman (the same guy who made scientific Valentine cards). He&rsquo;s started a new blog called SundayMagazine.org, where posts and discusses old issues of the New York Times Sunday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-york-times-depicts-life-on-venus-and-mars%e2%80%a6-in-1912-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-15874","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\/15874"}],"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=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}