{"id":8589,"date":"2010-09-26T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2010-09-26T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T07:04:00","slug":"godzilla-history-biology-and-behavior-of-hyper-evolved-theropod-kaiju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/godzilla-history-biology-and-behavior-of-hyper-evolved-theropod-kaiju\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla: History, Biology and Behavior of Hyper-Evolved Theropod Kaiju"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a lecture on Godzilla and his history, nature and implications for life on Earth. It was delivered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shyaporn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Shyaporn Theerakulstit<\/a> at the 3rd annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdnite.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nerd Nite Nerdtacular<\/a> &#8220;as a public service, to save you from burning in nuclear fire&#8221; (in Prof. Theerakulstit&#8217;s own words).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite brilliant and Prof. Theerakulstit manages remarkably well despite continual interference from reactionary elements with laser pointers. When asked &#8220;Why are you so awesome?&#8221;, he replied: &#8220;Lighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"475\" height=\"292\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qXgX2WErXQo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"475\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qXgX2WErXQo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Shyaporn\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Theerakulstit&#8217;s YouTube Channel<\/a>, where you will find many more lectures and talks on popular culture and items of scientific importance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetvideo.com.au\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Pen<\/a> for pointing the Backbrain in Prof. Theerakulstit&#8217;s direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a lecture on Godzilla and his history, nature and implications for life on Earth. It was delivered by Professor Shyaporn Theerakulstit at the 3rd annual Nerd Nite Nerdtacular &#8220;as a public service, to save you from burning in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/godzilla-history-biology-and-behavior-of-hyper-evolved-theropod-kaiju\/\">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":[],"categories":[12,44,11,103],"tags":[1419,410,411,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}