• Question: Do you have a favourite science program, and if so what is it called? Does it have a particular genre, like comedy or is it all factual.

    Asked by Rianna to Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack, Sheona on 10 Nov 2015.
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      Jack Carlyle answered on 10 Nov 2015:


      I love QI, which is a comedy quiz show – but that’s not only a science program, I guess. Horizons can be very intersting, too, which is a more factual documentary type thing… but I mostly watch random things on YouTube because I don’t actually own a TV. The Internet is the future 😉

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      Giuditta Perversi answered on 10 Nov 2015:


      When I was little, in Italy, we had this epic engagement TV program (which is still running, to be fair) called “SuperQuark”. It was mostly factual, but they also had reconstruction of historical events, short movies, computer graphic projections and stuff like that. It didn’t discuss only science, but also archaeology, history and the like.

      Now that I grew up, I mostly tend to play around with TED talks (short talks in which one expert has a limited amount of time to explain his/her field, they are really catching and they also have multiple subjects) or science videos on YouTube (the one with demonstrations from the lab, for instance)!

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      Flavia de Almeida Dias answered on 10 Nov 2015:


      When I am chilling and watching some program, I would normally go for fiction (often science fiction) instead of a program related to my job 🙂

      However, I have a personal history with “Cosmos” by Carl Sagan (made back in the 80s, I watched sometime in the 90s), so I gave it a go on the new version by Neil deGrasse Tyson and it was wonderful. It is a science documentary style.

      When I was younger, I used to watch the Beakman’s World on TV, which was a mix of explaining experiments for kids and comedy.

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      Sheona Masterton answered on 13 Nov 2015:


      Like Flavia, I really like Cosmos (both the original and the new series). Carl Sagan was a total legend 🙂

      Does Big Bang Theory count as a science program? I mean, it has scientists in it…!

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