{"id":69,"date":"2006-10-13T20:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T00:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T14:42:26","slug":"interesting-stuff-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Interesting stuff out there &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just doing some web surfing and came across &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Adventures in Ethics and Science discussing with her young&#8217;uns <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2006\/10\/friday_sprog_blogging_trying_t.php\">Pokemon and evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. R at Evolving Education talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/evoledu.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/apparently-it-is-my-fault.html\">morality in the science classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendscience.org\/\">Defend Science<\/a> wants to, well, defend science. Consider &#8220;signing&#8221; the statement.<\/p>\n<p>NOVA scienceNOW has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/sciencenow\/3210\/02.html\">interesting lesson<\/a> on cell biology.<\/p>\n<p>PBS has an astounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/evolution\/library\/index.html\">evolution library<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just doing some web surfing and came across &#8230; Adventures in Ethics and Science discussing with her young&#8217;uns Pokemon and evolution. Mr. R at Evolving Education talks about morality in the science classroom. Defend Science wants to, well, defend science. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=69\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-17","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2563,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2563","url_meta":{"origin":69,"position":0},"title":"Happy Darwin Day!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll be in Winter Park today at the Central Florida Freethought Community's Darwin Day event. 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