{"id":17877,"date":"2010-05-15T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/study-reveals-dolphins-lack-capacity-to-mock-celebrity-culture-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:14:39","slug":"study-reveals-dolphins-lack-capacity-to-mock-celebrity-culture-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/study-reveals-dolphins-lack-capacity-to-mock-celebrity-culture-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Study Reveals Dolphins Lack Capacity To Mock Celebrity Culture | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c5f70_New-Study-top.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"207\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/study-reveals-dolphins-lack-capacity-to-mock-celeb,17422\/\">Here&rsquo;s<\/a> a brilliant piece of science-writing satire from the Onion. I find it particularly funny because I&rsquo;ve been writing a lot recently about the evolution of human uniqueness. It&rsquo;s so easy to mix up &ldquo;unique&rdquo; with &ldquo;totally awesome.&rdquo; The conflation flatters my readers, and myself. That&rsquo;s the sort of self-importance that great satire can deflate so quickly.<\/p><p><em>[Hat tip, <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/edyong209\/status\/13912744866\"><em>Ed Yong<\/em><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3C42ZJykKUC6oqyhokmFtoRm8Po\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c5f70_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3C42ZJykKUC6oqyhokmFtoRm8Po\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/913cd_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\/913cd__Yv51L6Vir8\" 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\/913cd_IZ-O-eBq_3Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s a brilliant piece of science-writing satire from the Onion. I find it particularly funny because I&rsquo;ve been writing a lot recently about the evolution of human uniqueness. It&rsquo;s so easy to mix up &ldquo;unique&rdquo; with &ldquo;totally awesome.&rdquo; The conflation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/study-reveals-dolphins-lack-capacity-to-mock-celebrity-culture-the-loom.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-17877","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\/17877"}],"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=17877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}