{"id":8558,"date":"2010-02-11T18:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cosmology-human-cell-cultures-the-colbert-report-of-course-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:06:46","slug":"cosmology-human-cell-cultures-the-colbert-report-of-course-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cosmology-human-cell-cultures-the-colbert-report-of-course-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Cosmology? Human Cell Cultures? The Colbert Report, Of Course | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve said it before, and I&rsquo;ll say it again: Stephen Colbert is the twenty-first century Mister Wizard. He&rsquo;s had guests on to talk about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/05\/10\/why-do-we-have-to-junk-it-up-with-science\/\">great experiments in physics and shock their fingers<\/a>, addressed the thorny issue of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/08\/07\/the-species-dating-game\/\">species delimitation<\/a>, reveled in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/05\/30\/colbert-microbes-a-love-affair\/\">microbes<\/a>, and even&nbsp;screamed in horror at the sight of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/12\/08\/lets-haunt-their-dreams-forever\/\">tongue-eating parasites<\/a>. If you still doubt me, look at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video\/tag\/science\">the list of videos at Colbert Nation tagged &ldquo;science.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p><p>What? You think science is a thing of the past on the show? Well, consider this: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/02\/11\/colbert-nation\/\">Sean Carroll of Cosmic Variance<\/a> will be on March 3, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/02\/02\/henrietta-lacks-and-the-future-of-science-books\/\">Rebecca Skloot<\/a>, author <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9781400052172-0\">of <\/a><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9781400052172-0\">The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/a><\/em>, will be on in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebeccaSkloot\/status\/8630664796\">the second week of March<\/a>. Tune in.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/39twYrmAIGGlBBqcMLbodYC1O_M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c9fd6_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/39twYrmAIGGlBBqcMLbodYC1O_M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c9fd6_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\/c9fd6_qPcbPrABghw\" 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\/93f5e_pa7YO0d2BkI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve said it before, and I&rsquo;ll say it again: Stephen Colbert is the twenty-first century Mister Wizard. He&rsquo;s had guests on to talk about great experiments in physics and shock their fingers, addressed the thorny issue of species delimitation, reveled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cosmology-human-cell-cultures-the-colbert-report-of-course-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-8558","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\/8558"}],"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=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}