{"id":636512,"date":"2010-01-20T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2010-01-20T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:00:50","slug":"calamities-of-nature-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/636512","title":{"rendered":"Calamities of Nature | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=307\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/01\/calamitiesofnature.jpg?resize=207%2C263\" alt=\"calamitiesofnature\" title=\"calamitiesofnature\" width=\"207\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10436\"\/><\/a>I like a lot of web comics, but it&#8217;s sometimes hard to find good ones. I was recently twigged on to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/\">Calamities of Nature<\/a>, which commonly has themes dealing with science and critical thinking. I particularly like <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=307\">this one<\/a>, excerpted in the picture here. The last panel is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>In the character guide, the artist describes the mole (the white guy with earmuffs) as a cynic, but I don&#8217;t think so. A cynic is in many ways a pessimist, but a skeptic can see the good in things while still asking for evidence of claims. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=323\">I think Aaron is a skeptic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the virtual ink to Carl Spackler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6juhNVjz86zhPxj7sQa6rrkgdoA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6juhNVjz86zhPxj7sQa6rrkgdoA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6juhNVjz86zhPxj7sQa6rrkgdoA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6juhNVjz86zhPxj7sQa6rrkgdoA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/KCjOGSWq3JM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/bE2z94oLeag\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like a lot of web comics, but it&#8217;s sometimes hard to find good ones. I was recently twigged on to Calamities of Nature, which commonly has themes dealing with science and critical thinking. I particularly like this one, excerpted in the picture here. The last panel is awesome. In the character guide, the artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FAk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}