{"id":34477,"date":"2011-04-23T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T17:53:21","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (23 April 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top twelve picks<\/strong><\/p>

Adam Rutherford’s documentary The Gene Code<\/a> was an utter triumph – complex and cutting-edge science rendered clear and compelling. Let’s pause for a second and note that the UK is a country where we talk about Archaea and recombination in detail <\/em>on national TV. For this alone, Adam is my hero.<\/p>

Eric Michael Johnson’s superb piece on chimps, bonobos, the Tempest and the “killer ape” concept<\/a> is one of the highlights of the week. David Dobbs’s follow-up is well worth your time too<\/a>.<\/p>

Brian Switek is on incredible form this week with no fewer than four superb posts: on primate “grief”<\/a>, on the evolution of mammal ear bones from reptile jaws<\/a> (with the perfect headline), on the world’s oldest toothache<\/a>, and on exhorting people to stop comparing every dino to T.rex<\/a>. I have immortalised his sentiments in T-shirt form<\/a>.<\/p>

Chris Mooney writes about the science of science denial<\/a> for Mother Jones.<\/p>

Tigers Are Less Important Than Warblers<\/a>. A wonderful, witty and compelling piece by Madhusudan Katti.<\/p>

“Well-read isn’t a destination; there is nowhere to get to.” Linda Holmes urges you to embrace sweet surrender<\/a><\/p>

This excellent piece looks like it’s about roller-derby<\/a>, ...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top twelve picksAdam Rutherford’s documentary The Gene Code was an utter triumph – complex and cutting-edge science rendered clear and compelling. Let’s pause for a second and note that the UK is a country where we talk about Archaea and … Continue reading →<\/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-34477","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\/34477"}],"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=34477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}