{"id":538673,"date":"2010-04-21T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=14108"},"modified":"2010-04-21T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:00:39","slug":"manga-and-skepticism-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/538673","title":{"rendered":"Manga and skepticism | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saramayhew.com\/\">Sara Mayhew<\/a> is pretty cool. I am reminded of this by <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticality.com\/\">her interview on Skepticality this week<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about her again anyway.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know she&#8217;s so cool? I mean, besides this being my blog which makes me the final arbiter of cool? And also that she linked to me <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/02\/26\/mail-from-the-skies\/\">in a fabulous cartoon she drew<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s cool because she&#8217;s a skeptic and she draws manga and she&#8217;s a TED fellow. And she&#8217;s also pretty frakkin&#8217; smart. And she spreads the joy of science and skepticism through her art. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YewnVH_JQEQ\">Behold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YewnVH_JQEQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That, me droogs, is a very cool ad. And how can you not love someone who asks, &#8220;Do we have the courage to let go of our beliefs, to grab on to what is true?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want more of her, then <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w_-RU8q6iiE\">check out the talk she gave at CfI LA<\/a> in March, and you too will see why I like her so much.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YM0ry8S06nVoG1jGtmNt0Fg_LOI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YM0ry8S06nVoG1jGtmNt0Fg_LOI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YM0ry8S06nVoG1jGtmNt0Fg_LOI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YM0ry8S06nVoG1jGtmNt0Fg_LOI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/2fxHTFlgy8k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/D_ZdGW2Gw5w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Sara Mayhew is pretty cool. I am reminded of this by her interview on Skepticality this week, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about her again anyway. How do I know she&#8217;s so cool? I mean, besides this being my blog which makes me the final arbiter of cool? And also that she [&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-538673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538673","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=538673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}