{"id":10696,"date":"2012-11-30T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2012-12-03T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T03:36:31","slug":"colbert-redux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/colbert-redux-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the privilege of once again appearing on the Colbert Report to talk with our nation&#8217;s leading pundit about the frontiers of modern science. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/421670\/november-29-2012\/sean-carroll\">Here&#8217;s the clip<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;d want to use it to help explain how the Higgs mechanism works, but I think we had fun. The joke about &#8220;massive&#8221; at the end makes sense only if you know that Colbert has a running gag, referenced earlier in the show, in which he has been trying to get people to say &#8220;massive&#8221; as a synonym for &#8220;cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='512' height='340'>\n<tbody>\n<tr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com'>The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'>Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/421670\/november-29-2012\/sean-carroll'>Sean Carroll<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'>\n<td colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:512px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'><a target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/'>www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'>\n<table style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'>\n<tr valign='middle'>\n<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/'>Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/'>Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video'>Video Archive<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the privilege of once again appearing on the Colbert Report to talk with our nation&#8217;s leading pundit about the frontiers of modern science. Here&#8217;s the clip. I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;d want to use it to help explain how the Higgs mechanism works, but I think we had fun. The joke about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higgs","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10697,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}