{"id":380,"date":"2009-02-12T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:25:53","slug":"46-billion-years-in-60-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/46-billion-years-in-60-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"4.6 Billion Years in 60 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claire L. Evans of Seed Magazine <a title=\"The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2009\/02\/the_evolution_of_life_in_60_se.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">produced a short video<\/a> which&#8230; well&#8230; let her explain it in her own words.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds<\/em> is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective. Everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2030\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u2030from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels\u00e2\u20ac\u2030\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u2030is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"You are a very short note near the end of the symphony of life.\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/-TqoMUMYtq4\/you_are_a_very_short_note_near.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pharyngula<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire L. Evans of Seed Magazine produced a short video which&#8230; well&#8230; let her explain it in her own words. The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/46-billion-years-in-60-seconds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4.6 Billion Years in 60 Seconds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[145,311,837],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","tag-cambrian-explosion","tag-evolution","tag-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}