Choose the New PBS Science Show

chinmay7 writes "PBS has posted three different pilots for a new science show, and they want viewers to weigh in and help choose one as the regular science feature. All three pilots are viewable as vodcasts. Wired Science aired on January 3rd. The pilot certainly is polished, as one might expect from Wired Magazine, and deals with interesting topics: 'Meet rocket-belt inventors, stem cell explorers and meteorite hunters.' Science Investigators (air date: January 10) seems to be the most 'science' show: 'The investigators examine 30,000-year-old Neanderthal DNA, vanishing frogs, mind-boggling baseball pitches and more.' 22nd Century (air date: January 17) is pretty gimmicky and loud for my taste, but delivers interesting content — 'In the coming decades will all our brains be wired together like networked computers?' So watch and vote."

Comments

Re:no more 1hr documentaries

[InfinityWpi]

Sorry, you lost my attention when you failed to ask a question in your first two lines of text. Heck, you didn't even make your point until the second line -- what kind of person keeps reading after the first line doesn't have a point?

(okay, I've turned the sarcasm tag off now)

Here, have two points:

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:no more 1hr documentaries

[Anonymous Coward]

Heck, you didn't even make your point until the second line -- what kind of person keeps reading after the first line doesn't have a point?

Maybe you should get a higher-res widescreen monitor.

Re:why not all three

[kitsunewarlock]

You sir take that back! I've only seen every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus twice...TWICE! That is unacceptible! Unexpectidly unacceptible. As unexpected as...

Re:Anything educational please.

[ArcherB]

I yearn for impartial & unbiased educational programming that I enjoyed in my youth

In other words, boring.

(/joke)

How about...

[plopez]

'Software EXchange and Viruses, the Inside Story'?

Re:Why is this necessary?

[TheSync]

Stop Hatin' on Loonette! Chick clowns on couches rock!

Re:Vodcasts?

[gad_zuki!]

I slashread your textcast about jargon and nodnodnod with your cyber-sentiment.

And in a surprising turn of election events

[Eternal Vigilance]

Even though the election won't close until at least the end of the month, the Supreme Court has ordained 5-4 that the winner is "Why Al Gore Is Wrong - The Triumphs Of Faith-Based Science."

Future episodes will cover:

• The real age of the Grand Canyon

• Intelligent Design

• The impossibility of heavier-than-air flight

• The fundamental flaw in Gallileo's arguments

• The unquestionable accuracy of US voting machines

• Why you need to upgrade to Windows Vista

• The iPod: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

"Nobody expects the White House Inquisition!"

Re:Wired Sucked

[nmb3000]

is it too much to have hosts that are not 30 something smart asses?

How can you say that!?!

They had a white male host, a black female host, and an Asian female host! Aside from finding a Hispanic hermaphrodite, how could it get any better than that?

Enjoy your politically correct science, dammit!

Re:Wired Sucked

[evilviper]

or better yet, science stories that are not ubiquitous in the media already. or even better, shows dedicated to one topic rather than 4 or 5 so we can get some real information involved?

What? You mean you weren't edified by watching a woman cut a plasma TV in half with a circular saw?

Re:The videos

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't know Men in Black was a unit of storage.

Re:Wired Sucked

[Quiet_Desperation]

Aside from finding a Hispanic hermaphrodite

And you'd think the folks at Wired would know about that section of craigslist.