{"id":14479,"date":"2014-04-09T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:11:41","slug":"too-cool-part-22-your-inner-fish-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2014\/04\/too-cool-part-22-your-inner-fish-on-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Too cool, part 22: <em>Your Inner Fish<\/em> on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, this is what comes from being out of the loop as much as I am. While I never hear about what every chuzzlewit celebrity is up to (which is a major plus,) I also don&#8217;t hear about promising new programs in time to give adequate notice. Case in point<strong>:<\/strong> <strong><em>Your Inner Fish<\/em><\/strong>, airing <strong>tonight<\/strong> on PBS.<\/p>\n<p>That name should sound familiar, considering that I reviewed the <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/12\/book-review-your-inner-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\">book of the same name<\/a> a few years back (and you&#8217;ve undoubtedly read every post I&#8217;ve ever made.) The author, Neil Shubin, is the host of this show, the first of a three part series &#8211; following behind are <em>Your Inner Reptile<\/em> and <em>Your Inner Monkey<\/em>. The first airs <strong>tonight (April 9th)<\/strong> at <strong>10 PM Eastern Time<\/strong> on <strong>PBS<\/strong>. And I have to say, if the preview and Shubin&#8217;s writing are any indication, it should be pretty damn good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I have no idea what they&#8217;re doing, but the video clip I tried to embed has gone back and forth in the space of an hour, currently giving me a &#8220;no longer available&#8221; error. If you get that, just click on the link further down to go directly to their site, which I highly recommend, since the previews are great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/video.rmpbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365146597\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/video.rmpbs.org\/program\/your-inner-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\">all of the clips on their site<\/a> &#8211; it certainly doesn&#8217;t look like they skimped on production values.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone familiar with hominid fossils will instantly recognize the incomplete skeleton they&#8217;re laying out in several places in that clip<strong>:<\/strong> it&#8217;s Lucy of course, <em>Australopithecus afarensis<\/em>, and yes, that&#8217;s really all we have of that particular specimen, which is actually quite a bit for that time period &#8211; for many others, we have only a handful of fragments, and a few even have just one bit. It&#8217;s easy to question whether one bit can tell us anything, but if it doesn&#8217;t match anything else we have, then it tells us that it likely belongs to a whole new species. By the way, Lucy is not the only <em>Au. afarensis<\/em> specimen we have, though it was for a while &#8211; we actually have bones from ten individuals, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selam_%28Australopithecus%29\" target=\"_blank\">toddler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the program! I may be back with a review myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, this is what comes from being out of the loop as much as I am. While I never hear about what every chuzzlewit celebrity is up to (which is a major plus,) I also don&#8217;t hear about promising new programs in time to give adequate notice. Case in point: Your Inner Fish, airing tonight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,9,46],"tags":[367,2344,2347,365,2345,2346],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critic","category-nature","category-science","category-too-cool","tag-neil-shubin","tag-pbs","tag-series","tag-your-inner-fish","tag-your-inner-monkey","tag-your-inner-reptile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}