{"id":2914,"date":"2008-09-09T08:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T08:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/09\/televisual-wonders\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:18:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T08:18:37","slug":"televisual-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/09\/televisual-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Televisual Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something to fill your science-related entertainment needs while I&#8217;m in Canuckistan pondering the future of society, and thus not blogging much, here are a couple of things you might want to check out on tv (whose producers sent me helpful emails letting me know of their programs):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows.do?action=detail&#038;episodeId=276858\">&#8220;The Next Big Bang,&#8221;<\/a> airing tonight on the History Channel. If you&#8217;re too far from Geneva to go to the (sorta-kinda) start-up of the Large Hadron Collider, you can watch this documentary instead.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/episode\/how-to-build-a-better-being-3863\/Overview\">&#8220;How to Build a Better Being&#8221;<\/a>, airing tonight on the National Geographic Channel. This uses the launch of Spore as a hook to talk about evolution and how it works. This will be of particular interest to Mike Kozlowski, who loves all things Will Wright&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something to fill your science-related entertainment needs while I&#8217;m in Canuckistan pondering the future of society, and thus not blogging much, here are a couple of things you might want to check out on tv (whose producers sent me helpful emails letting me know of their programs): &#8220;The Next Big Bang,&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/09\/televisual-wonders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Televisual Wonders<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","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=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}