Watchification » physics http://watchification.com Sun, 31 May 2009 21:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Freeman Dyson: Let’s look for life in the outer solar system http://watchification.com/2008/07/25/freeman-dyson-lets-look-for-life-in-the-outer-solar-system/ http://watchification.com/2008/07/25/freeman-dyson-lets-look-for-life-in-the-outer-solar-system/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:16:17 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://watchification.com/?p=141
Why didn’t I think of this before? At TED.com they’ve got hours of really good ‘long-form’ telly—brainy people explaining their passions, mainly, but also some passionate people explaining their brains. Here’s a favourite: Freeman Dyson talking about the obligation on humans to look for life in the outer solar system. Freeman, you had me at ‘let’s’.

]]> http://watchification.com/2008/07/25/freeman-dyson-lets-look-for-life-in-the-outer-solar-system/feed/ 0 Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out http://watchification.com/2008/04/18/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/ http://watchification.com/2008/04/18/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:17:21 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://watchification.com/?p=75 Here he is: Feynman. Sooner or later he was going to show up wasn’t he? Here’s a famous Horizon about the legendary physicist/communicator from 1981, the year I did my A-levels. Why didn’t anyone show me this video at school? Why did his name never even come up? Did I choose the wrong school? The wrong subjects? (I chose Technical Drawing and English, by the way, so I guess that might explain it).

Anyway, about half way through this programme Feynman talks about the difference between scientists who know things and people who write about stuff but know nothing and I realise, with some pain, that I’m in that second group. Bugger.

Warning: the picture quality will have you banging on the top of your computer and leaning out the window to twiddle the aerial. Careful you don’t fall out…

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