{"id":34812,"date":"2011-05-01T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/frontiers-in-dark-matter-and-comics-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:46","slug":"frontiers-in-dark-matter-and-comics-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/frontiers-in-dark-matter-and-comics-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers in dark matter, and comics | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via fellow Discover blogger Sean Carroll, I came across Jorge Cham&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1430\">podcast\/comic\/video about cosmology<\/a>. I&rsquo;m embedding it here, not just because it&rsquo;s a very good summary of where we stand in understanding the stuff of the cosmos, but because Cham&ndash;he of PhD comics&ndash;has done something fascinating here. He has combined three different media into something new. I think, on the whole, it works very well. It moves a bit too fast for my eye sometimes, and can get a little herky jerky. But a living comic illustration of a scientist talking? Me likes.<\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22956103\">Dark Matters<\/a> from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4844939\">PHD Comics<\/a> on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GicasonWOA66tK-NptkrT1MSVYI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/73242_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GicasonWOA66tK-NptkrT1MSVYI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/73242_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\/73242_H3rbcCjNIj0\" 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\/73242_SATAjzeuZ-E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via fellow Discover blogger Sean Carroll, I came across Jorge Cham&rsquo;s podcast\/comic\/video about cosmology. I&rsquo;m embedding it here, not just because it&rsquo;s a very good summary of where we stand in understanding the stuff of the cosmos, but because Cham&ndash;he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/frontiers-in-dark-matter-and-comics-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-34812","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\/34812"}],"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=34812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}