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TV For Nerds: Cable Science Network?
Ridgelift writes "Wired is covering The Cable Science Network. New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee puts it best: "I cover a lot of meetings and I can just see things unfolding, but we can't cover it all in print media, so it would be wonderful to have things like talks and plenary sessions accessible to the public. There are a lot of C-SPAN junkies, and I think there would be a similar interest (in science TV) from the American public." There's also a home page for the network here."
Seems like only two months ago we discussed the possibility.
There's so much fun and crazy science already -- and it's on American TV and in a cartoon. Yes, you guessed it -- The Simpsons!
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Remember this part?
Homer: "I'm feelin' low, Apu. You got any of that beer that has candy floating in it, you know, Skittlebrau?"
Apu: "Such a product does not exist, sir! You must have dreamed it."
Homer: "Oh. Well then just gimme a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles."
So, check out the Skittlebrau project and enjoy the entire experiment.
These friends made Skoors Light, Bacardi Skilver, Skitrona, Old Skilwaukee, and finished off with Skittlebrau!
Their conclusion? "Skittlebrauology is a new science. But it certainly shows an intriguing new path in mixology. Malt beverages do not seem to mix well with the fruity candy, but bitter, quality beers seem to mesh well. Obviosuly, more research needs to be done, but it certainly is nothing to laugh at."
Hahahahaha!
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
If you don't have a TV, how do you watch DVD's? If you watch them on your computer, why not just get a tuner card? Your title makes zero sense...
There are a ton of very-narrowly-focused channels out there, but they are only available to small groups of people, it seems. I like cars and computers, so I would love to have Speedvision and TechTV, but of course my local cable company doesn't carry it in my area. I do, however, get such great channels as the golf channel, multiple religious channels, and the public access channel that shows powerpoint slides when it's not showing a blue screen of death.
I have blog like everyone else
One of my favorite channels on television is LINK TV. This is available on DirecTV satellite and it's a wonderful resource of alternative news and information.
While not specifically technical in nature, this network runs a lot of documentaries and shows that the mainstream media would never show. There was a great documentary shown recently where they placed Internet Kiosks in a middle eastern country and didn't tell anyone how to use them, and observed how quickly the children learned to use the Internet and what information they sought out (another segment of the show features the developer of the Kiosks meeting with Issac Asimov and watching 2001 with him! He likened the un-explained Internet kiosk to the monolith in the movie and discussed it with Asimov).
Another great show on this network is Mosaic which is a daily news program which features excerpts from news broadcasts throughout the middle east. The video footage is much more substantive and you can almost always see an entirely different angle on the daily news stories, as well as a lot more information (and best of all, J-Lo is never mentioned).
This network is a MUST SEE channel. And had I known about it prior, it would have easily justified switching cable/sat companies.
CSN... Fair and Balanced.
Pelé!
...or the Science Channel. The Science Channel has been airing for a few years--I believe it was formerly called the Discovery Science Channel, or maybe it was the original Discovery Channel. They have good programming--the only problem is, they rerun stuff way too much. Wayyyy too much. Alot of the programming has been broadcast for at least a year. Still, if you haven't seen it before, it's new to you...
Harold
We have
*The Discovery Channel
*The Learning Channel
*National Geographic Channel
*about a quarter of PBS- NOVA, SciAm Frontiers, Frontiers,
*some items on the Hostory Channel
and probably others I've overlooked.
Science journalism pretty much has to follow the general rules of drama:
*You need an engaging theme/conflict to drive a story,
*It has to have a proper beginning, development, and ending,
*It needs interesting human characters.
Often these "science dramas" take the form of mysteries to be solved, races between labs or against time, quirky characters, and so on.