{"id":38990,"date":"2011-09-04T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/news-quickies-part-n-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:38","slug":"news-quickies-part-n-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/news-quickies-part-n-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"News quickies, part n | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick notes, to fill my quota give you some interesting reading:<\/p><p>1) Scientific American <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=straight-talk-about-vaccination\">has a great article online<\/a> about why it&rsquo;s important to vaccinate, and how to talk to parents about it. [via George Valenzuela]<\/p><p>2) Speaking of which, the Autism Science Foundation &mdash; a non-profit that supports real research into autism, instead of trying to link it to vaccines despite all the evidence &mdash; was chosen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myphilanthropedia.org\/startups\/national\/people-with-disabilities\">as the number 1 startup charity in the \"Disabilities\" category by Philanthropedia\/Guidestar<\/a>. Congrats to them! [via Dawn Crawford]<\/p><p>3) The Discovery Institute <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/california-science-center-foundations-statement-regarding-resolution-of-legal-dispute-with-afa-128618283.html\">isn&rsquo;t completely honest<\/a>? Unpossible! <\/p><p>4) Bill Nye helps create a sundial at Cornell University <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billnye.com\/telling-time\/\">that glows when the Sun reaches its daily peak in the sky<\/a>. [via Beth Quittman (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samaralectures.com\/speakers\/phil-plait\/\">my agent<\/a>!)]<\/p><p>5) Frying pans <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherjonassen.com\/8369\/98686\/gallery\/devour\">that look like planets<\/a>. Seriously. Very cool.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cI1iAN18jaO0QSQLvy-ma6KVUvo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6556a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cI1iAN18jaO0QSQLvy-ma6KVUvo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6556a_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\/6556a_yc8RXO9XDV4\" 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\/6556a_gFxvXExpir8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick notes, to fill my quota give you some interesting reading:1) Scientific American has a great article online about why it&rsquo;s important to vaccinate, and how to talk to parents about it. [via George Valenzuela]2) Speaking of which, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/news-quickies-part-n-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-38990","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\/38990"}],"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=38990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}