Horizon plumbs the depths of dumbing down

Mark wrote:

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.

I suspect she's even more enthusiastic about alcohol.

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The IOP do an annual "Teacher of Physics Awards". Though I can't find
the full details of the winners with a quick google.

http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/A...page_1796.html

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"PeeGee" wrote in message o.uk...
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 :-)

I'm a frayed knot.

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

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, you know that's not true. You were born with a screwdriver in your
mouth, a scart plug/socket along your umbilical cord, and a TV aerial
protruding from your bottom.

And regarding Horizon during the 1970s, I seem to remember that a lot of the
programmes were about global cooling, and how the next ice age would be here
by 2010!

Bill

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:19 GMT, Bill wrote:

Mark, you know that's not true. You were born with a screwdriver in your
mouth, a scart plug/socket along your umbilical cord, and a TV aerial
protruding from your bottom.

Ouch, his poor mother. Anyway, the SCART wasn't invented until the mid-70s
so either markyboy is younger than he claims or you've made a slight error.

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:19 GMT, Bill wrote:

Mark, you know that's not true. You were born with a screwdriver in your
mouth, a scart plug/socket along your umbilical cord, and a TV aerial
protruding from your bottom.

Ouch, his poor mother. Anyway, the SCART wasn't invented until the mid-70s
so either markyboy is younger than he claims or you've made a slight error.

If that abomination of a connector had been around in 1963, I'd have
clambered straight back into the womb.

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"Adrian C" wrote in message
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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 :-)



Yes indeed, thanks, a trip back down memory lane to when technology wasn't
quite so slick as it is nowadays and as a consequence, for me at least, a
lot more understandable!

"Bill" wrote in message
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: I seem to remember that a lot of the programmes were about global cooling,
and how the next ice age would be here
: by 2010!

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...662092,00.html

Cheers, The Cheese

Mark Carver wrote:
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.

I hardly watch any TV these days (haven't watched 'Horizon' in years)
- it's so rubbishy.

Get a famous person, stick him in front on the camera, have him talk
about something of which he knows nothing, slap on a soundtrack -
done!

'Horizon' was wonderful in the 70s and even into the 80s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srSbA...eature=related

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:17:30 +0100, "Low Life #3"
wrote:

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...662092,00.html


Ah the Hadley...
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a...hadley_hacked/

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Geo