{"id":542657,"date":"2010-04-24T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=14166"},"modified":"2010-04-24T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T14:00:31","slug":"new-york-times-depicts-life-on-venus-and-mars%e2%80%a6-in-1912-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542657","title":{"rendered":"New York Times depicts life on Venus and Mars\u2026 in 1912 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cooler blogs out there is Ironic Sans by David Friedman (the same guy who made <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/02\/idea_scientist_valentines.html\">scientific Valentine cards<\/a>). He&#8217;s started a new blog called <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2010\/04\/announcing_a_new_blog_sundaymagazine_org.html\">SundayMagazine.org<\/a>, where posts and discusses old issues of the New York Times Sunday Magazine from the ancient archives. <\/p>\n<p>In his first one, he found quite the catch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/nyt_sundaymag1912.jpg\" alt=\"nyt_sundaymag1912\" title=\"nyt_sundaymag1912\" width=\"610\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14167\"\/><\/p>\n<p>How cool is that? The article is about a lettered French scientist speculating about what life would be like on other planets. David has a PDF of the article as well, which is an absolute delight to read. How wonderful to see something like that; an apparently scientifically-minded article, but free to have fun and take the reader to a totally different place than what they might expect!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s inspiring, in fact. Given that kind of freedom today, I wonder what other famous scientists of today would write about. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R0rpjvZhovXgeZSa07VdlSp28dM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R0rpjvZhovXgeZSa07VdlSp28dM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R0rpjvZhovXgeZSa07VdlSp28dM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/R0rpjvZhovXgeZSa07VdlSp28dM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/8vdizWpSFR4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/9yo0iiRrcLM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cooler blogs out there is Ironic Sans by David Friedman (the same guy who made scientific Valentine cards). He&#8217;s started a new blog called SundayMagazine.org, where posts and discusses old issues of the New York Times Sunday Magazine from the ancient archives. In his first one, he found quite the catch: How [&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-542657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542657","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=542657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}