Horizon plumbs the depths of dumbing down

"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and
it went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would
scare most 12 year olds out of their skin!
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Kennedy McEwen wrote:
"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and
it went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would
scare most 12 year olds out of their skin!

It's bloody hopeless I agree. It was watching Horizon during the 1970s,
that convinced me as a teenager to pursue a career in science and
technology. God knows what effect the programme has today.

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Mark
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Kennedy McEwen wrote:
"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and it
went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would scare
most 12 year olds out of their skin!

It's bloody hopeless I agree. It was watching Horizon during the 1970s,
that convinced me as a teenager to pursue a career in science and
technology. God knows what effect the programme has today.

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

http://www.paras.org.uk/

That's a bummer - recorded that to watch later - shall I bother?
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I gave it up some years ago when they started going down a kind of don't let
the detail get in the way of the nice effects and wizz bang stuff.

Do they still collabborate with a usa station for it?

Brian

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Kennedy McEwen wrote:
"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and it
went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would scare
most 12 year olds out of their skin!

It's bloody hopeless I agree. It was watching Horizon during the 1970s,
that convinced me as a teenager to pursue a career in science and
technology. God knows what effect the programme has today.

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

http://www.paras.org.uk/

housetrained wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Kennedy McEwen wrote:
"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp
and it went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and
Butthead: Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would
scare most 12 year olds out of their skin!

It's bloody hopeless I agree. It was watching Horizon during the
1970s, that convinced me as a teenager to pursue a career in science
and technology. God knows what effect the programme has today.

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

http://www.paras.org.uk/

That's a bummer - recorded that to watch later - shall I bother?

It was Johnny Ball that got me into Engineering...everyone has a
different inspiration. Mind you I used to watch 'Experiment' with Jack
Smith in the 70's during the School programmes on ITV. It fascinated
me....especially when they tried to drive a 3kW electric fire via some
bell wire.

Rob.

Kennedy McEwen wrote:
"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and
it went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would
scare most 12 year olds out of their skin!

It's just following (or is that leading?) the general trend of flash(y)
packaging without any content (much like web site, really :-( )

They seem to be a bit late, however, as I remember seeing an paper many
years ago (could have been in the "Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications" journal) on said subject where (ISTR) a research student
had collected discarded pieces of string and produced an "average"
length. The length determined and mathematics used I didn't commit to
memory :-)

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:25:26 +0000, Kennedy McEwen
wrote:

"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and
it went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would
scare most 12 year olds out of their skin!

I certainly don't think this was one of the worst Horizon programme of
recent times. The piece near the end where they just repeated blurred
clips of parts of the programme was absolutely pointless though. It
was aimed at people who do not know much about physics and not at PhD
students.

The programme stated that she was "one of the best physics teachers in
the country" although I've no idea how this could be determined. I
suspect that it was just a meaningless statement to add an air of
authenticity. I can't she why she would scare children though. She
seemed very enthusiastic about the subject which is a Good Thing(tm)
IMHO.
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Kennedy McEwen wrote:
"How long is a pieth of thrting" they asked some **** with a lithp and it
went downhill from there.

At times the soundtrack was indistinguishable from Beavis and Butthead:
Huh huh, yeah ahuh huh huh, huh huh ahuhuh.

And if that is the best physics teacher in the country it is little
wonder kids aren't taking the subject. Good grief, that look would scare
most 12 year olds out of their skin!

It's bloody hopeless I agree. It was watching Horizon during the 1970s,
that convinced me as a teenager to pursue a career in science and
technology. God knows what effect the programme has today.



There used to be a really entertaining programme (IIRC on Ch 4) back in the
1980s, there were a couple of guys who demonstrated how everyday machines
and electronics around us worked, including a fair amount of quite ingenious
stuff they actually built themselves, from memory it may have been called
something like 'The secret life of ....'

Ivan wrote:

There used to be a really entertaining programme (IIRC on Ch 4) back in the
1980s, there were a couple of guys who demonstrated how everyday machines
and electronics around us worked, including a fair amount of quite ingenious
stuff they actually built themselves, from memory it may have been called
something like 'The secret life of ....'

Indeed there was

http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/

See also

http://www.timhunkin.com/index.htm

Chris
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Ivan wrote:

There used to be a really entertaining programme (IIRC on Ch 4) back in
the 1980s, there were a couple of guys who demonstrated how everyday
machines and electronics around us worked, including a fair amount of
quite ingenious stuff they actually built themselves, from memory it may
have been called something like 'The secret life of ....'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sec...fe_of_Machines

The Secret Life of the Radio (Pt. 1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehVVpY6XE4

.... and more on youtube! Facinating watching :-)

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Adrian C