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  1. Re:Calling Bill Nye and the ghost of Carl Sagan by Krakhan · · Score: 1 · on How To Make Science Popular Again?

    Check out Eyes of Nye. That's basically a modern, adult version of the old Bill Nye the Science Guy show.

  2. Re:Who is our generation of Mr. Wizard? by OSU+ChemE · · Score: 1 · on TV's "Mr. Wizard," Don Herbert, Dies At 89

    Bill Nye still has a series that airs on PBS called "The Eyes of Nye" (I don't think there are new episodes being produced). Each episode examines one topic in some detail: antibiotics, addiction, the biology of sex, climate change. And he's doing some sort of tour, as he was at my college campus recently giving a lecture (Google cache link since the original requires registration; Google 'lantern bill nye' if you prefer). Unfortunately I was out of town and didn't get to see him or get his autograph.

    So he's still around. But I don't think his show from the 90's is still on. Far superior to Beakman's World in my opinion. Maybe it was just a different target audience though. Beakman seemed to be silliness with some science thrown in. Bill Nye was science with some levity.

  3. Real question is why people don't see eye to eye by ninejaguar · · Score: 1 · on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics
    If people were to watch episode 4, where Bill Nye explains things in layman's terms, only the religious fundamentalists would remain worked up about the issue.

    = 9J =

  4. Re:The future by phaggood · · Score: 1 · on Miss Digital World 2005

    The human race slowly becoming extinct because everyone would rather hump a perfect digital partner in VR t

    Would that be a bad thing - not complete extinction but drastic population reduction? According to a recent episode of Nye's new show (no link; select the 'Population' show of this flash-site), this planet can comfortably hold about 42B humans if we all eat like cows, or about 2B Americans. If VR can move us from our current 6.xB to the 2B mark in a, ah, "pleasant" manner, Gia'd prob'ly appreciate it very much.

  5. Re:The Dumbing-Down of America by rsmith-mac · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Our Ratings, Ourselves
    What does any of this have to do with science, technology, and history?

    Meanwhile, real shows with truly relevant and important content like The Eyes of Nye are disregarded even on public broadcasting, and only seen in a handful of markets. Science is being increasingly dumbed down and compromised to be entertaining first and science second; consumers don't want entertaining science, they just want no-work entertainment. Heaven forbid someone actually has to think around here.

  6. Is the Web site's show times list incomplete? by antdude · · Score: 1 · on The Science Guy Returns

    I was surprised to see the show times list missing CA stations. :(

    Also, Mozilla v1.7.6 doesn't render the list correctly. :(