Science can be hip! - by Mr. K.
Gingerbread Man on 21/10/2009 at 20:52
Science IS hip, make no errors. Beakman, Julius Sumner Miller, Dr Zed, Alton Brown, you name it. The people who don't think science is rock and roll are stupid and shouldn't be scientists anyway. What could be cooler than inching closer and closer to understanding what's going on? WOOOOOOOOOO SCIENCE!
Plus the video make me smiles
Queue on 21/10/2009 at 23:11
Still have my Cosmos hardcover from back when the series was first aired (as well as a paperback of Broca's Brain, which I had to have just because it was Sagan), along with old audio cassette tapes that I had made of every episode. I'd set the recorder close to the television to capture the audio as best as I could.
Wow. Just realized exactly what kind of nerd I am....
PeeperStorm on 22/10/2009 at 01:08
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Science IS hip, make no errors. Beakman, Julius Sumner Miller, Dr Zed, Alton Brown, you name it. The people who don't think science is rock and roll are stupid and shouldn't be scientists anyway. What could be cooler than inching closer and closer to understanding what's going on? WOOOOOOOOOO SCIENCE!
No mention of (
http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/) Mr. Wizard, the granddaddy of them all? For shame.
Dario on 22/10/2009 at 01:33
Woot, I read (
http://www.livescience.com/) LiveScience every day. Anybody who doesn't like science was probably force-fed textbooks at too high a rate. :mad:
SubJeff on 22/10/2009 at 01:56
Great video :thumb:
[nerd]Broca is incorrectly credited with discovering Broca's area and generally the theory of brain regions that correlate to function, I guess because of the politics of science :mad: . It was Gall and Spurzheim, fathers of the great art of phrenology (the best science, bring it back for the lulz plz), who first noted all this and I think it was Spurzheim who first noticed that damage to "Broca's" area (:eww:) caused speech impediments.
To this day I call it the Gall-Spurzheim area and any medical students who question this fact get frakking hazzzzzed on central nervous system pharmacology until they cry or they frakking know it![/nerd]
Ahem
Mr. K. on 22/10/2009 at 07:41
Do you have any book / documentary recommendations for nice scientific stuff? They can be reasonably technical, I'm an engineer. I don't own a TV set, so I don't really watch anything unless it's by recommendation.
Also, I'm looking into the DVD set for the Cosmos series (the regular version, the collector's one is too expensive). Does anyone know if it is remasterized or just a VHS refurbishing?
PeeperStorm on 22/10/2009 at 17:33
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Broca is incorrectly credited with discovering Broca's area and generally the theory of brain regions that correlate to function,
Just so long as he doesn't try to claim that he discovered (
http://areaology.com/area.html) David Bowie's Area which, as you know, was discovered by
an unnamed groupie dethtoll in the back of a tour bus in 1972.
Aja on 28/10/2009 at 04:18
I think if I were to be a scientist I'd prefer to be a scientist in the 70s. I think the 70s had a way better science aesthetic going on—just listen to the music of all those old chemistry and biology films.
