{"id":186100,"date":"2014-05-12T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/12\/magnets-how-do-they-fing-work\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T00:32:00","slug":"magnets-how-do-they-fing-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/12\/magnets-how-do-they-fing-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnets How do They F%$#ing Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-agl0pOQfs\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>Once again, it&#8217;s time to roll the Insane Clown Posse video Miracles, (<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Completely NSFW<\/span><\/b>) because the Talibaptists are going full ICP Here<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>One of the joys of Neil deGrasse Tyson and his science show <i>Cosmos<\/i>, is the way that it makes the heads of the primordial wing of the Christian right explode.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, they have now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/05\/19\/creationists_now_losing_their_minds_because_neil_degrasse_tyson_explained_electricity\/\">come out opposing electromagnetism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">If there is one topic in each week\u2019s Cosmos that sends the Christian fundamentalists into a frenzy, it is evolution.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">You see, scientists understand that most sciences cannot be done correctly if you ignore the scientific fact of evolution. Yet, week in and week out, creationists critique the job Tyson and his team of writers are doing, calling them speculative and misleading.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Creationists would have you believe that Tyson and his crew are force-feeding viewers a story of evolution dreamed up in the minds of those who simply want to refute God and spread atheism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Calling evolutionary biologists names such as \u201cevolutionists\u201d\u2014a word not used outside of the creationists sphere\u2014is an attempt to demean the science as nothing more than a religion; ironically, the very thing they are trying to sell you on.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">This week\u2019s episode, titled, \u201cThe Electric Boy\u201d was about scientist Michael Faraday. Faraday\u2019s study of electricity led to some of the biggest discoveries and inventions in the history of mankind, ranging from the electric motor to the discovery of electromagnetic waves that surround just about everything.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">How on earth could creationists be upset with electricity? Well, Tyson had the audacity to mention that Faraday\u2019s discoveries helped us explain how birds navigate the globe using the earth\u2019s electromagnetic waves, and that their brains are evolutionarily wired for such a task.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.  What is wrong with these people, and why do we allow them to breed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, it&#8217;s time to roll the Insane Clown Posse video Miracles, (Completely NSFW) because the Talibaptists are going full ICP Here One of the joys of Neil deGrasse Tyson and his science show Cosmos, is the way that it makes the heads of the primordial wing of the Christian right explode. Case in point, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1069,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}