I got pulled into (not by gravity) the reboot of COSMOS hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and spent all of Saturday watching it. While it was fascinating, I found that the explanation of the atom could not compare with the one presented on the late 70s/early 80s tv sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, in which a character, Venus Flytrap, actually breaks down these complicated concepts into the most understandable terms possible. Watching this clip actually led me down nostalgia lane, so I watched a few other classic WKRP clips and laughed all over again.
Cosmos
Facts
StandardThe fact that I am home on a Friday night watching Cosmos and catching up on the week’s The Daily Show and Colbert Report while thinking about the discussion of big data going beyond just big data into “fast data” (that is, real-time data) and considering nature and its weirdnesses (for example, the Swede who crashed into a moose with his car; the moose was killed. Imagine the car driver’s surprise to learn that the moose, whose body was completely slashed open when it crashed through the windshield, had… “deposited” her as-yet-unborn calf in the backseat of his car. Stranger than fiction).
Fridays – cementing my nerdiness as usual.