Philosophy
Do you watch PBS science programs?
Yes...2
No...0
Sometimes...3
PBS is probably the most common source of science programs with free access. For the most part they are informative and thoughtful. Two recent good programs were "Absolute Zero" and "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer". One of the worst was "Einstein's Big Idea" which was too heavy on dramatization and criticized over the role of Einstein's wife Mileva Maric. The BBC ran a docudrama on Albert Einstein and Sir Arthur Eddington [played by Doctor Who's David Tennant] and will probably be picked up by PBS in a year or two. NOVA Science Now and the Scientific American offerings have vanished. Even science programing for children has disappeared...Bill Nye the Science Guy is gone. Some programs like Ruff Ruffman do incorporate some science within an entertainment format of "spills and thrills and adventure".
"Einstein and Eddington"...BBC production
"400 Years of the Telescope" on PBS this Friday
Amber's encapsulated gems
Bill Nye "The Science Guy"..."Stargate Atlantis"
"Doctor Atomic"--Great Performances at the Met
"Einstein's Big Idea"...back again
Fractals via NOVA
Neil deGrasse Tyson...new representative
Neil deGrasse Tyson..."NOVA scienceNow"--2nd season
Newton and 2060
NOVA--"Hunting the Hidden Dimension"
NOVA's "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" transcript available
NOVA's "Absolute Zero"
NOVA's "Absolute Zero"--repeated
PBS Palomar documentary
PBS--Palomar Observatory
"Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"...NOVA offering
"Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"--YAWN
Percy Lavon Julian...chemist
"The Atom Smashers"--tonight on PBS
"The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
"The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer"--worthy
Yoky Matsuoka--robotics expert and inventor
[I should mention that PBS has very little to do with these programs. They are just the venue for airing the independent productions.]
- "living Popular Scientist" Poll
Who is your choice for living "popular" scientist? Brian Greene...0 Freeman Dyson...3 Lawrence Krauss...0 Neil deGrasse Tyson...2 Stephen Hawking...3 Somewhat surprised. I suppose Hawking would lead...he is quite an icon. I expected Krauss to be at the...
- Nova's "hunting The Hidden Dimension" Transcript Available
The transcript for NOVA's "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" is now available. "Hunting the Hidden Dimension"--transcript Fractals via NOVA...
- "parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"--yawn
Hugh Everett III November 11th, 1930 to July 19th, 1982 Yawn. "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"...better than Sominex. Hugh Everett III's contribution to theoretical physics was minimally obligatory and I suppose the purpose was to discuss relationships...
- Yoky Matsuoka--robotics Expert And Inventor
Yoky Matsuoka Japanese American, tennis player, nerdette, and expert robotics engineer. A fabulous story of a young woman designing and developing robotic human duplicates [hands]...controlled by the human brain. Watch the entire episode at Nova Science...
- Nova's "absolute Zero"
In a general consensus among colleagues it has become evident that PBS's NOVA has offered less good science programs than they used to do but every now and then a fine program is produced and such is the offering called "Absolute Zero" which is a...
Philosophy
"PBS science programs" poll
Do you watch PBS science programs?
Yes...2
No...0
Sometimes...3
PBS is probably the most common source of science programs with free access. For the most part they are informative and thoughtful. Two recent good programs were "Absolute Zero" and "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer". One of the worst was "Einstein's Big Idea" which was too heavy on dramatization and criticized over the role of Einstein's wife Mileva Maric. The BBC ran a docudrama on Albert Einstein and Sir Arthur Eddington [played by Doctor Who's David Tennant] and will probably be picked up by PBS in a year or two. NOVA Science Now and the Scientific American offerings have vanished. Even science programing for children has disappeared...Bill Nye the Science Guy is gone. Some programs like Ruff Ruffman do incorporate some science within an entertainment format of "spills and thrills and adventure".
"Einstein and Eddington"...BBC production
"400 Years of the Telescope" on PBS this Friday
Amber's encapsulated gems
Bill Nye "The Science Guy"..."Stargate Atlantis"
"Doctor Atomic"--Great Performances at the Met
"Einstein's Big Idea"...back again
Fractals via NOVA
Neil deGrasse Tyson...new representative
Neil deGrasse Tyson..."NOVA scienceNow"--2nd season
Newton and 2060
NOVA--"Hunting the Hidden Dimension"
NOVA's "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" transcript available
NOVA's "Absolute Zero"
NOVA's "Absolute Zero"--repeated
PBS Palomar documentary
PBS--Palomar Observatory
"Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"...NOVA offering
"Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"--YAWN
Percy Lavon Julian...chemist
"The Atom Smashers"--tonight on PBS
"The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
"The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer"--worthy
Yoky Matsuoka--robotics expert and inventor
[I should mention that PBS has very little to do with these programs. They are just the venue for airing the independent productions.]
- "living Popular Scientist" Poll
Who is your choice for living "popular" scientist? Brian Greene...0 Freeman Dyson...3 Lawrence Krauss...0 Neil deGrasse Tyson...2 Stephen Hawking...3 Somewhat surprised. I suppose Hawking would lead...he is quite an icon. I expected Krauss to be at the...
- Nova's "hunting The Hidden Dimension" Transcript Available
The transcript for NOVA's "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" is now available. "Hunting the Hidden Dimension"--transcript Fractals via NOVA...
- "parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"--yawn
Hugh Everett III November 11th, 1930 to July 19th, 1982 Yawn. "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"...better than Sominex. Hugh Everett III's contribution to theoretical physics was minimally obligatory and I suppose the purpose was to discuss relationships...
- Yoky Matsuoka--robotics Expert And Inventor
Yoky Matsuoka Japanese American, tennis player, nerdette, and expert robotics engineer. A fabulous story of a young woman designing and developing robotic human duplicates [hands]...controlled by the human brain. Watch the entire episode at Nova Science...
- Nova's "absolute Zero"
In a general consensus among colleagues it has become evident that PBS's NOVA has offered less good science programs than they used to do but every now and then a fine program is produced and such is the offering called "Absolute Zero" which is a...