for the non-Brits here, these are both presenters with a schtick for being blokes with spanners who make things keep to the Fen Causeway
(LOL)
He's getting long in the tooth now but what about James Burke instead?
but the other two have an appeal that lifts it out of the geek zone keep to the Fen Causeway
But he did have some useful insights that could be understand by a large section of all viewers, and the series were well shot with a lot of production value. However, they would look odd if you could see them today. <ignores protestations from ATinNM that he's still happily watching reruns on KNMD, out there in the desert> You can't be me, I'm taken
I don't have to watch re-runs because I own the series. So there, :-þ nyah-nyah neener-neener.
Of course they look dated and of course the Gosh-Wow is So-What and We Know More Now and all the rest of it ... Connections was shot in the mid-70s fer crying out loud.
I don't know his intention. Overtly the series was about change not science ... 'tho the viewer learned a bit about science along the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtWVfTiQQW8
The title relates to the idea of paradigm shift. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
His Knowledge Web
The Knowledge Web counters the tendency of modern education to encourage specialized learning and thinking. With formal education today, learners may study either history or physics, or perhaps only Renaissance history and astrophysics," says James. "People tend to become experts in highly specialized fields, learning more and more about less and less.
is an interesting effort. No idea how successful it has been.
