{"id":36714,"date":"2011-07-03T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/save-yourself-mammal-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:27","slug":"save-yourself-mammal-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/save-yourself-mammal-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Save yourself, mammal! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smbc.myshopify.com\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/save-yourself-mammal-an-smbc-collection\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c431d_saveyourselfmammal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33178\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>I&rsquo;ve been meaning to write a review of Zach Weiner&rsquo;s webcomic collection <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smbc.myshopify.com\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/save-yourself-mammal-an-smbc-collection\"><em>Save Yourself, Mammal!<\/em><\/a> ever since I got it a couple of weeks ago, but seriously, if you&rsquo;re a fan of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/\">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/a> then just go and buy the book, OK?<\/p><p>And if you&rsquo;re not, buy one anyway. His comics are really funny. Bonus: it includes a snarky \"choose your own adventure\" series of tiny cartoons. <\/p><p>And hey &ndash; I&rsquo;m saying all this even though there is not <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/05\/02\/so-moving-on\/\">a single<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/09\/26\/smbc-gets-it-right-as-usual\/\">solitary<\/a> instance <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/09\/19\/smbc-resolves-the-fermi-paradox\/\">in the book<\/a> of his using <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/07\/strip-of-my-dignity\/\">one of his cartoons<\/a> featuring a beloved red-bearded balding astronomer. Not <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/03\/05\/saturday-morning-breakfast-pandering\/\">one<\/a>. And yet, somehow, the comics manage to be awesome. <\/p><p>Full disclosure: I was going to give this book a positive review even before Zach offered to draw <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BadAstronomer\">my new Twitter avatar<\/a>, which is me as a baby, because <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=2277#comic\">the way he draws babies<\/a> always makes me laugh. The shirt he gave me <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5231\/5885086494_10e7266f19_b.jpg\">in the picture<\/a> though was totally a bribe.<\/p><p>Have you bought the book yet? C&rsquo;mon, ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/D-ZkuskOC21LTLsGOJ1iFpIgAGU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2de62_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/D-ZkuskOC21LTLsGOJ1iFpIgAGU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2de62_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\/2de62_UaXYuGpFbaU\" 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\/2de62_ded6fP15sHE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been meaning to write a review of Zach Weiner&rsquo;s webcomic collection Save Yourself, Mammal! ever since I got it a couple of weeks ago, but seriously, if you&rsquo;re a fan of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal then just go and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/save-yourself-mammal-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-36714","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\/36714"}],"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=36714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}