People Believe Weird Things
I’m watching loads of TED Talks as Brian and I are off to TED in a few weeks (look at Friday’s speakers *ahem*). There’s just so very many excellent talks… I saw this one this morning and thought at least a few people here would be interested in it.
The Presumptions Of Idiots
Whenever Brian is on telly he gets inundated with emails from every type of whackjob imaginable. There are the people with bizarre theories about some scientific topic or another – they are never scientists, just people with bizarre theories. Then there are the typical anti-science or religious people who scream at him that he’s evil [...]
More Horizon Outtakes
Paul Olding, the director of ‘What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?’, has put up some unused clips from the programme. Dr. Brian Cox explains the Holographic Principle in a very nice vineyard in California. Brian and Leonard Susskind on String Theory Brian talks with Leonard Susskind about Extra Dimensions.
Horizon On BBC’s iPlayer
For those of you in the UK who missed Brian’s ‘Horizon’ – ‘What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?’ – it’s available to view on the BBC’s iPlayer.
Dr. Brian Cox on Horizon
**UPDATE** More on Brian’s Horizon ‘Do You Know What Time It Is?’ here. Brian was on BBC Breakfast this morning to talk about his Horizon (tonight BBC2 9pm) ‘What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?“. Click the image to watch the video. Watch Video It’s been getting lots of good reviews. The only criticisms are [...]
Apocalympics 2012 – Mayan “Prophecy”
The Maya of ancient Mexico had very advanced concepts of mathematics, astronomy and Time. They kept track of solar and lunar years, eclipses and the cycles of visible planets. To carry out their calendric and astronomical calculations they developed a sophisticated mathematical system where units are written with dots and bars are used to represent [...]
More Brian On Horizon
Finally, the BBC agreed to allow more clips to be released online. Which is nice of them. Considering that Brian’s programme *isn’t* going to get any advertising or marketing at all from the BBC. They choose about three Horizons in a year to publicise… hmmmm… Anyway, these are pretty funny. One thing to know about [...]
The Honesty Of Cluelessness
I was talking to Brian last night about my thoughts about ‘truth’. I’ve realised that we most often use or hear the word ‘truth’ when talking about ‘non-facts’. For example, “The Truth About the Moon Landings” is inevitably about some ridiculous conspiracy which ends up talking about UFOs or the Illuminati or both. As Brian [...]
Physics Funding In The UK
Brian appeared on NorthWest Tonight, er, tonight with a report on the physics funding crisis in the UK. Click to watch
Dr. Brian Cox On Horizon
Yay! We’ve got clips! These are outtakes from the programme – though when you watch the programme (29th Jan 9pm BBC2 hint, hint) you will recognise that a few bits of this made the final cut. Watch Video Click to watch
Jonathan Ross Has Left The Building
*update 23/11/08: Jonathan is back on Facebook now! *update* 29/10/08: To leave messages of support which will be sent directly to Jonathan, please click here Johnathan Stephen Ross, your Facebook friend and mine, has left Facebook. Yesterday his status said something like ‘I am thinking of leaving Facebook because everyone seems to be bugging my [...]
Dr. Brian Cox on Horizon
**UPDATE** 2nd December. Brian’s new Horizon on Time is on tonight at 9pm. More on that here. For more info on Brian and his research, please visit his website. For more info on the work being done at CERN, please visit Brian’s podcast, CERN Podcast There’s loads of outtakes from Horizon on YouTube And, if [...]
Juno Fucking Rocks
Before Christmas, Sizemore and I helped Think Jam organise the Bloggers/Twitter/Seesmic screening of Juno. The whole blogang was there plus a bunch of Twitterpeeps I’d never met. The film was written by Cody Diablo who some of you may know from her blog Pussy Ranch. She was writing Pussy Ranch when she lived in Minneapolis [...]
Nuclear Power in the UK
It seems that everyone’s going mental about the fact that we’re going to get some new nuclear power plants built in the UK. Apart from believing the inaccurate information relayed by the media, I suspect the reason some people are against nuclear power is that they don’t understand things like risk or radiation. I thought [...]
