{"id":272081,"date":"2010-02-03T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:11:19","slug":"who-you-calling-authoritative-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272081","title":{"rendered":"Who You Calling Authoritative? | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the UK Times for including The Loom among\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/science\/2010\/02\/best-science-blogs.html\">their top science blogs<\/a>. It&#8217;s great company to be in, including fellow Discover blogs Bad Astronomy and the Intersection. I am just going to assume that the Times has not yet discovered <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a>, because its omission is a gross oversight.<\/p>\n<p>I also think their description of the Loom as &#8220;authoritative science writing&#8221; may be a bit of an oversight, too (as flattering as it maybe). I mean, really:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/12\/22\/kinkiness-beyond-kinky\/\">Duck porn<\/a>? <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/12\/26\/t&#xe6;&#x0002c8;tu\/\">Tattoo parlors<\/a>? <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2006\/02\/02\/the-wisdom-of-parasites\/\">Cockroach zombies<\/a>? Other adjectives come to mind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVP9vjbPyI-NwaaqkcEFw_JIX8A\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVP9vjbPyI-NwaaqkcEFw_JIX8A\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVP9vjbPyI-NwaaqkcEFw_JIX8A\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVP9vjbPyI-NwaaqkcEFw_JIX8A\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/zLGaCN6R7IY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/1HzHNQ-K1OE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the UK Times for including The Loom among\u00a0their top science blogs. It&#8217;s great company to be in, including fellow Discover blogs Bad Astronomy and the Intersection. I am just going to assume that the Times has not yet discovered Cosmic Variance, because its omission is a gross oversight. I also think their description [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}