{"id":36280,"date":"2011-06-19T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/blastr-my-favorite-tv-scientists-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:28","slug":"blastr-my-favorite-tv-scientists-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/blastr-my-favorite-tv-scientists-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Blastr: My favorite TV scientists | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/06\/a-scientistss-top-7-favor.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ce5c_futurama_farnsworth.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33323\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Good news, everyone!<\/p><p>I&rsquo;ve written a new article for Blastr, the news and opinion web portal for the SyFy channel. This one is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/06\/a-scientistss-top-7-favor.php\">\"7 TV scientists that even real scientists approve of\"<\/a>, and is essentially my Top 6 (with a tie for second place, bringing it to 7) favorite fictional scientists on TV. The picture here may be something of a spoiler for one of them. Whaaaa?<\/p><p>I originally wrote the article as my favorite <em>astronomers<\/em> on TV, but decided to expand it to all scientists. That didn&rsquo;t change my list much; it just made it easier to include a couple of folks. The problem with a list like this is, first, keeping it short &mdash; there are a lot of potential candidates. I got around that by adding an Honorable Mention at the bottom of each section.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/06\/a-scientistss-top-7-favor.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ce5c_blastr_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18754\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Also, it&rsquo;s hard to remember everyone! For example, several commenters on the article point out I didn&rsquo;t include Walter Bishop from Fringe, and I have to cop to that one. I really like Walter, and to be honest the reason I ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_mxkhLrCOEgqey1pp4aBDRqTNzU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ce5c_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_mxkhLrCOEgqey1pp4aBDRqTNzU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ce5c_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\/4ce5c_f9rxDDP4dl0\" 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\/4255b_23rDHDygJds\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, everyone!I&rsquo;ve written a new article for Blastr, the news and opinion web portal for the SyFy channel. This one is \"7 TV scientists that even real scientists approve of\", and is essentially my Top 6 (with a tie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/blastr-my-favorite-tv-scientists-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-36280","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\/36280"}],"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=36280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}