{"id":416695,"date":"2010-03-11T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:06:38","slug":"the-science-will-be-televised-discover-appears-on-colbert-report-fox-news-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416695","title":{"rendered":"The Science Will Be Televised: DISCOVER Appears on Colbert Report &amp; Fox News | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DISCOVER hit the airwaves yesterday. First, Editor-in-Chief Corey Powell appeared on Fox News to talk NASA and Mars\u2014specifically the agency&#8217;s idea for &#8220;Tumbleweeds,&#8221; or inexpensive round explorers that could bound around the surface of the Red Planet, tossed by the wind. Given the uncertain state of NASA funding, Powell says, the future of exploration could look a lot like these intrepid little bots:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, if you stayed up late enough to catch the end of &#8220;The Colbert Report,&#8221; you saw Sean Carroll\u2014who writes for the DISCOVER blog <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a>\u2014talking time, the multiverse, and his new book <em>From Eternity to Here<\/em>. Besides surviving the cauldron that is talking to Colbert while still hitting some key scientific points, Carroll also accidentally thinks up a great title for an album:<\/p>\n<table style=\"font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;color:#333333;background-color:#f5f5f5;height:353px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#e5e5e5;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color:#333;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:right;font-weight:bold;\">Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;\" colspan=\"2\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color:#333;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/267142\/march-10-2010\/sean-carroll\">Sean Carroll<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px;background-color:#353535;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px;overflow:hidden;width:360px;text-align:right;\" colspan=\"2\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color:#96deff;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\">www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px;\" colspan=\"2\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:267142\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:18px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"margin:0px;text-align:center;height:100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"font:10px arial;color:#333;text-decoration:none;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/full-episodes\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"font:10px arial;color:#333;text-decoration:none;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\">Political Humor<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"font:10px arial;color:#333;text-decoration:none;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/special\/colbert-vancouver-games\">Skate Expectations<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Check out Carroll&#8217;s cover story for the March issue of DISCOVER, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2010\/mar\/02-the-real-rules-for-time-travelers\/\">The Real Rules for Time Travelers<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Related Content:<br \/>\nCosmic Variance: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/03\/10\/report-from-colbert\/\">Report from Colbert<\/a>, Carroll&#8217;s account of visiting the show<br \/>\nCosmic Variance: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/01\/12\/from-eternity-to-here-book-club\/\"><em>From Eternity to Here<\/em> Book Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_ODGtnNnZXuSORQNKAfjrtmJvPM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_ODGtnNnZXuSORQNKAfjrtmJvPM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_ODGtnNnZXuSORQNKAfjrtmJvPM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_ODGtnNnZXuSORQNKAfjrtmJvPM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/AyzFxHdoLPc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISCOVER hit the airwaves yesterday. First, Editor-in-Chief Corey Powell appeared on Fox News to talk NASA and Mars\u2014specifically the agency&#8217;s idea for &#8220;Tumbleweeds,&#8221; or inexpensive round explorers that could bound around the surface of the Red Planet, tossed by the wind. 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