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Category Archives: TV review
A television programme about the second law of thermodynamics
CP Snow must be doing cartwheels in his grave. The BBC has made a beautiful, intelligent film about the second law of thermodynamics. You only have until Tuesday 30th Oct* to catch it on iPlayer and you should. Presented by … Continue reading
Posted in History of Science, Science & Media, TV review
Tagged BBC, Entropy, history of science, jim Al Khalili
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Artful History
“There have been times in the history of man when the earth seems suddenly to have grown warmer… I don’t put that forward as a scientific proposition, but the fact remains that three or four times in history man has … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Media, TV review
Tagged Art history, Civilisation, Kenneth Clark, Wow
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Snapshots of 2010
I wasn’t going to do a review of the year’s blogposts but, on the off-chance that the recent move to the shiny new site at Occam’s Typewriter has attracted some new readers, I thought I would provide a brief guide … Continue reading
Cosmos and Kapoor
Having delighted in Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man earlier this year, I sat down to watch Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which several commenters had recommended to me. You can read what I thought of it in my guest post at … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Communication, TV review
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An Astonishing Ascent
It seems somehow to have always been there. I cannot remember when it first came to my attention but I have long been aware of it as a landmark or rather a landscape in the background of my mind. Jacob … Continue reading
Posted in TV review
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