{"id":1670,"date":"2014-03-11T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2014-03-24T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:17:59","slug":"cosmos-a-space-time-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_1627\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5715938723_b232c7c10f_b_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cosmos, science\" alt=\"cosmos, science\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5715938723_b232c7c10f_b_converted.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Star formation in the cosmos (photo: NASA)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>I really want to like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosontv.com\/\">this program<\/a>, though I thought the opening episode of the 13-part series was too conceptual. Perhaps the producers believed that a generation of kids raised on <i>Star Wars<\/i> and CGI special effects wouldn\u2019t warm to it otherwise, and perhaps that was just the result of getting some basics out of the way, but I\u2019ll be looking for future episodes to have less sweep and more deep. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/astronomy\/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey-a-triumph-for-science-140310.htm\">Reviewers<\/a> liked it.<\/p>\n<p>In a tribute to counter-programming acumen, the Sunday night Fox broadcast is smack up against Masterpiece Theatre, probably cutting the audience for both. Thankfully, <i>Cosmos<\/i> reruns on Mondays on the National Geographic channel. Anything that would help Americans take science more seriously has to be appreciated. Said <i>Cosmos<\/i> host Neil deGrasse Tyson in a <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2014\/03\/neil-degrasse-tyson-cosmos-interview\/\">Wired<\/a><\/i> interview, \u201cThe idea that science is just some luxury that you\u2019ll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.\u201d Dream on, my fellow Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star formation in the cosmos (photo: NASA) I really want to like this program, though I thought the opening episode of the 13-part series was too conceptual. Perhaps the producers believed that a generation of kids raised on Star Wars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,35,67,104],"tags":[73,416,418],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narrator","category-real-life","category-television","category-the-morgue","tag-nature","tag-real-life","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-qW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}