{"id":28573,"date":"2010-08-17T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/parasitic-wasps-on-weeds-we-have-video-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:05:13","slug":"parasitic-wasps-on-weeds-we-have-video-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/parasitic-wasps-on-weeds-we-have-video-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Parasitic wasps on Weeds: We have video! | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/08\/16\/i-have-it-on-good-authority-my-voice-makes-its-cable-tv-premiere-tonight\/#comment-39696\">Mandarb<\/a> for posting this clip from Weeds I was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/08\/16\/i-have-it-on-good-authority-my-voice-makes-its-cable-tv-premiere-tonight\/\">wondering about<\/a> yesterday. I should point out that it&rsquo;s a <strong>very<\/strong> abridged version of my <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/episodes\/2009\/09\/25\/segments\/133978\">original piece<\/a> on the radio. For example, it sounds as if I&rsquo;m giving God my own personal forgiveness for parasitic wasps. I was actually talking about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=7W8FAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA105&amp;dq=%22I+cannot+persuade+myself+that+a+beneficent+and+omnipotent+God%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=ZM5qTJfJK4aBlAfC1oXKAQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;q=%22I%20cannot%20persuade%20myself%20that%20a%20beneficent%20and%20omnipotent%20God%22&amp;f=false\">a letter written by Darwin<\/a> in which the wasps figured in his musings about God.<\/p><p>And I have to say that I&rsquo;m not much closer to figuring out what parasitic wasps have to do with the show&rsquo;s plot. I guess I&rsquo;ll have to watch the whole episode. But&ndash;for the record&ndash;here it is:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tb7pFaTVJbzjGxL_258M427LWXw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/371f6_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tb7pFaTVJbzjGxL_258M427LWXw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/371f6_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\/371f6_s8RNJU8igYc\" 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\/371f6_YbzFRuaCCLI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Mandarb for posting this clip from Weeds I was wondering about yesterday. I should point out that it&rsquo;s a very abridged version of my original piece on the radio. For example, it sounds as if I&rsquo;m giving God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/parasitic-wasps-on-weeds-we-have-video-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-28573","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\/28573"}],"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=28573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}