{"id":12243,"date":"2016-01-13T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2018-05-09T08:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:03:40","slug":"nova-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12243","title":{"rendered":"NOVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/rocky_start.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12244\" src=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/rocky_start-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"rocky_start\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/rocky_start-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/rocky_start.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>LIFE&#8217;S ROCKY START<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 @ 11:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place\u2014a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea\u2014that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today. It&#8217;s a theory of the co-evolution of Earth and life that is reshaping the grand-narrative of our planet\u2019s story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/nova-lifes-rocky-start\/\" target=\"_blank\"<b><br \/>\nFIND OUT MORE \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE&#8217;S ROCKY START WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 @ 11:00PM Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place\u2014a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how? NOVA joins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NOVA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}