{"id":1005,"date":"2016-07-08T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.rickhanson.net\/?p=25959"},"modified":"2016-07-08T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:00:06","slug":"ricks-picks-questioning-the-universe-with-stephen-hawking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/justonething\/2016\/07\/ricks-picks-questioning-the-universe-with-stephen-hawking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick\u2019s Picks: Questioning the Universe with Stephen Hawking"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><em>Rick\u2019s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe \u2014 How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? \u2014 and discusses how we might go about answering them.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out on Ted: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25960\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.rickhanson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hawking2.jpg\" alt=\"Hawking2\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hawking2.jpg 1069w, http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hawking2-300x113.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hawking2-1024x385.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hawking2-980x369.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/ricks-picks-questioning-the-universe-with-stephen-hawking\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Rick\u2019s Picks: Questioning the Universe with Stephen Hawking<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Rick Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=EIeeZ8mJIQw:klVjQO3Am6s:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=EIeeZ8mJIQw:klVjQO3Am6s:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=EIeeZ8mJIQw:klVjQO3Am6s:V_sGLiPBpWU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?i=EIeeZ8mJIQw:klVjQO3Am6s:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=EIeeZ8mJIQw:klVjQO3Am6s:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?i=EIeeZ8mJIQw:klVjQO3Am6s:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/rickhanson\/blog\/~4\/EIeeZ8mJIQw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick&rsquo;s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online. 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Are we alone? &mdash; and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/ricks-picks-questioning-the-universe-with-stephen-hawking\/\">Rick&rsquo;s Picks: Questioning the Universe with Stephen Hawking<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/\">Dr. Rick Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricks-picks","tag-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rick\u2019s Picks: Questioning the Universe with Stephen Hawking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rick&rsquo;s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online. 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