{"id":1520,"date":"2009-01-08T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:48:33","slug":"science-channel-inks-deal-with-physicist-michio-kaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Science Channel Inks Deal With Physicist Michio Kaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from his leading role in the History Channel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1237\">Parallel Universes<\/a> (if you missed it on TV, the DVD is available <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.history.com\/detail.php?p=77345\">here<\/a>), according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastingcable.com\/article\/CA6627449.html\">press release<\/a> today, Michio Kaku will now be appearing regularly on Discovery&#8217;s Science Channel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Science Channel has signed a multi-year agreement with theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. As part of the deal, the Discovery-owned network will produce a 10-part series based on his New York Times bestselling book Physics of the Impossible and has exclusive television rights to Kaku\u2019s other works for adaptation in series and specials.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Kaku will become the host of \u201cSci Q Sundays,\u201d the Sunday programming block that explores scientific news and topics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The show has a web-site <a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/tv\/sci-q\/sci-q.html\">here<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/interactives\/time-machine\/time-machine.html\">instructions<\/a> on how to build a time-machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from his leading role in the History Channel&#8217;s Parallel Universes (if you missed it on TV, the DVD is available here), according to a press release today, Michio Kaku will now be appearing regularly on Discovery&#8217;s Science Channel: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}