{"id":1221,"date":"2007-03-11T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/11\/dark-aliens-in-the-times\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T12:28:49","slug":"dark-aliens-in-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/11\/dark-aliens-in-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Aliens in the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good weekend for science in the Sunday <cite>New York Times<\/cite>, with a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/11\/magazine\/11dark.t.html?ex=1331269200&#038;en=3bd8d2734addea54&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">magazine article about dark matter and dark energy<\/a>, and also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/11\/books\/review\/Itzkoff3.t.html?ex=1331269200&#038;en=62dc2bab1335bc48&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">piece about the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)<\/a>, inexplicably located in the Book Review section (the article, that is, not the aliens).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably possible to draw some sort of parallel between the two&#8211; after all, the notion of dark matter was viewed as bordeline kookery for decades before gaining wide acceptance, and SETI is still widely viewed as a little bit off. I&#8217;m a little discombobulated from yesterday&#8217;s long trip, though, so I&#8217;ll leave that to those with clearer heads, and return to watching college basketball and grading homework assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good weekend for science in the Sunday New York Times, with a nice magazine article about dark matter and dark energy, and also a piece about the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), inexplicably located in the Book Review section (the article, that is, not the aliens). It&#8217;s probably possible to draw some sort of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/11\/dark-aliens-in-the-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark Aliens in the Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}