{"id":855,"date":"2016-05-03T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=855"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:58:47","slug":"orphan-black-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/05\/03\/orphan-black-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan Black Viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjsu.edu\/socialsciences\/about\/dean\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">College of Social Sciences Dean&#8217;s Profile web page<\/a>\u00a0concludes with &#8220;[a] non-academic passion for Walt is science fiction movies and television. He has hosted informal discussions of <em>The X\u2011Files<\/em>, and is currently a fan of <em>Orphan Black<\/em> on BBC America.&#8221; Today in the conference room the &#8220;Dean Team&#8221; &#8212; me, the Associate Dean, the two previous Associate Deans, and the Academic Resources Manager &#8212; gathered in the conference room to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2234222\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orphan Black<\/a>&#8216;s premiere episode, which introduces the show&#8217;s fascinating exploration of the ethical, technological,\u00a0and social scientific\u00a0implications of human cloning.\u00a0After the inevitable streaming video glitches were fixed I was able to introduce three folks to a great show, and remind the fourth person about it (she has not seen anything since season 2; we are now in season 4). We could not have too much discussion afterwards, as it&#8217;s hard to avoid spoilers, so we&#8217;ll have to gather again after they finish binge-watching season 1!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0College of Social Sciences Dean&#8217;s Profile web page\u00a0concludes with &#8220;[a] non-academic passion for Walt is science fiction movies and television. He has hosted informal discussions of The X\u2011Files, and is currently a fan of Orphan Black on BBC America.&#8221; Today in the conference room the &#8220;Dean Team&#8221; &#8212; me, the Associate Dean, the two previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}