{"id":309619,"date":"2010-02-11T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2010-02-11T13:06:46","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:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309619","title":{"rendered":"Cosmology? Human Cell Cultures? The Colbert Report, Of Course | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again: Stephen Colbert is the twenty-first century Mister Wizard. He&#8217;s had guests on to talk about <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/08\/07\/the-species-dating-game\/\">species delimitation<\/a>, reveled in <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/05\/30\/colbert-microbes-a-love-affair\/\">microbes<\/a>, and even\u00a0screamed in horror at the sight of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video\/tag\/science\">the list of videos at Colbert Nation tagged &#8220;science.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What? You think science is a thing of the past on the show? Well, consider this: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/02\/02\/henrietta-lacks-and-the-future-of-science-books\/\">Rebecca Skloot<\/a>, author <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9781400052172-0\">of <\/a><em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9781400052172-0\">The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/a><\/em>, will be on in <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebeccaSkloot\/status\/8630664796\">the second week of March<\/a>. Tune in.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/39twYrmAIGGlBBqcMLbodYC1O_M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/39twYrmAIGGlBBqcMLbodYC1O_M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/39twYrmAIGGlBBqcMLbodYC1O_M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/39twYrmAIGGlBBqcMLbodYC1O_M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/qPcbPrABghw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/pa7YO0d2BkI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again: Stephen Colbert is the twenty-first century Mister Wizard. He&#8217;s had guests on to talk about great experiments in physics and shock their fingers, addressed the thorny issue of species delimitation, reveled in microbes, and even\u00a0screamed in horror at the sight of tongue-eating parasites. If you still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309619","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=309619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}