{"id":6052,"date":"2010-01-20T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/calamities-of-nature-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:00:50","slug":"calamities-of-nature-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/calamities-of-nature-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Calamities of Nature | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/01bf7_calamitiesofnature.jpg\" alt=\"calamitiesofnature\" width=\"207\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10436\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>I like a lot of web comics, but it&rsquo;s sometimes hard to find good ones. I was recently twigged on to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/\">Calamities of Nature<\/a>, which commonly has themes dealing with science and critical thinking. I particularly like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=307\">this one<\/a>, excerpted in the picture here. The last panel is awesome.<\/p><p>In the character guide, the artist describes the mole (the white guy with earmuffs) as a cynic, but I don&rsquo;t think so. A cynic is in many ways a pessimist, but a skeptic can see the good in things while still asking for evidence of claims. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=323\">I think Aaron is a skeptic<\/a>. <\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the virtual ink to Carl Spackler.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6juhNVjz86zhPxj7sQa6rrkgdoA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/01bf7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6juhNVjz86zhPxj7sQa6rrkgdoA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/01bf7_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\/01bf7_KCjOGSWq3JM\" 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\/01bf7_bE2z94oLeag\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like a lot of web comics, but it&rsquo;s sometimes hard to find good ones. I was recently twigged on to Calamities of Nature, which commonly has themes dealing with science and critical thinking. I particularly like this one, excerpted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/calamities-of-nature-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-6052","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\/6052"}],"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=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}