If you’re looking for something to fill your science-related entertainment needs while I’m in Canuckistan pondering the future of society, and thus not blogging much, here are a couple of things you might want to check out on tv (whose producers sent me helpful emails letting me know of their programs):
- “The Next Big Bang,” airing tonight on the History Channel. If you’re too far from Geneva to go to the (sorta-kinda) start-up of the Large Hadron Collider, you can watch this documentary instead.
- “How to Build a Better Being”, airing tonight on the National Geographic Channel. This uses the launch of Spore as a hook to talk about evolution and how it works. This will be of particular interest to Mike Kozlowski, who loves all things Will Wright…
Enjoy!
It could be fun to collect all the news stories that are produced about the LHC over, say, the next year, to find the percentage that have “Big Bang” in the headline. My bet is around 75%. Of course, “Big Bang” is descriptive and has few and short words in it, so I suppose it makes sense to use it. Still, I do hope we’ll see a bit more variation…