Decide for yourself. ‘The Theory of Everything’, called ‘The Elegant Universe’, in the US is available to watch online at PBS’s Nova site.[…]

Enough has been said on ‘The Theory of Everything’ but it worth mentioning that it is symptomatic of how awful science TV has got. TToE sits in a slot once occupied by the excellent Equinox series of one hour documentaries, and one can&#8[…]

From Tomorrow’s World‘s 1975 report on Kraftwerk and ‘Autobahn’ (rebroadcast on Top of the Pops 2): “Last year they dispensed with the last conventional instrument, the violin. Next year they hope to get rid of the keybo[…]

Further to Mark’s point b2 below: The visuals at one point were particularly noteworthy. Voiceover: Such-and-such spent ages looking for an equation. Cue pic of (absurdly handsome) actor leafing through a tome apparently at random, searching, a[…]

THEORY OF EVERYTHING: more faults

OK so I watched ep two with a VERY SMART PERSON who fears maths but wants to understand string theory, and we agreed that:
a. the order this story is being told in is totally confused and bizarre (on a paragraph lev[…]

Women be shopping! And lose their minds!
So buying expensive things make women crazy, and yet bargain hunters are crazy, too? But don’t you need math skills to figure out real bargains? And men only want to buy cars and electronic gadgets? And […]

The blessed teeny brings to out attention that science has finally caught up to the Simpsons, with the creation of Tomacco (with potentially fatal results!).
(The link also bring up one of the strengths/weaknesses of the Internet: references to news […]

“Fox-elves cut off the people’s hair” – History of the Wei Dynasty, AD 477: The Fortean Times is 30 years old this month, and has a special commemorative supplement to celebrate. On the whole, they’re more likely to cove[…]

Unlike Martin, I don’t actually think the problem facing the Theory of Everything is that certain aspects are difficult to describe or explain, I think it’s that the programme-makers – on showing so far – take for granted that[…]

I watched some sort of medical mystery show about Toxic Shock Syndrome on Discovery Health. If the show is supposed to be a suspenceful mystery, it’s a bit of a failure as there’s not much mystery if you have been paying attention to wome[…]