I Heart the Science Channel
Instead of writing a whingey post complaining about what a drag it is to not be able to shower, or not be able to get up in order to get simple things without setting my recovery back four days I decided to report on some of the most high points of the TV I've been watching.
Sure, there's Hung (which I found to be pretty humorous) and the preview of Glee (itunes) which turned out to be much, much better than I expected. There are also my broad span of cop shows from Worlds Craziest Police Chases to Criminal Minds, but none of these measure up to the Science Channel shows and science shows on other networks.
My favorite Science Channel shows so far have been Brink, which is a half hour science news show and a show called, simply, The Atom. That one followed the history of the quest to understand the Atom.
Although it was on PBS, the Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives episode of Nova was awesome. It follows a musician whose father (now deceased) was the first to publish a paper in a legitimate physics publication proposing the existence of parallel universe theory. It was some wonderfully high level physics woven together with the human interest threads of a son learning another side of his father long after his father left the earth.
But I cheat with that one, because I watched that before I was stuck here going from bed to chouch (it's not big enough to be a couch and not small enough to be a chair) and back again.
I just watched Alive from PopTech on KQED world. The best part of this program was the Gigapxl Project. Graham Flint, physicist and engineer, developed cameras that capture images thousands of times more detailed than any photo ever taken. They are so detailed that as one looks closer, it works like a telescope. The image looks like a regular photo at first, and then as we look again we can see even the numbers on a person's watch in a panoramic photo.
Really, you must look at the photos in the Gigapxl project. They are amazing.
Sure, there's Hung (which I found to be pretty humorous) and the preview of Glee (itunes) which turned out to be much, much better than I expected. There are also my broad span of cop shows from Worlds Craziest Police Chases to Criminal Minds, but none of these measure up to the Science Channel shows and science shows on other networks.
My favorite Science Channel shows so far have been Brink, which is a half hour science news show and a show called, simply, The Atom. That one followed the history of the quest to understand the Atom.
Although it was on PBS, the Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives episode of Nova was awesome. It follows a musician whose father (now deceased) was the first to publish a paper in a legitimate physics publication proposing the existence of parallel universe theory. It was some wonderfully high level physics woven together with the human interest threads of a son learning another side of his father long after his father left the earth.
But I cheat with that one, because I watched that before I was stuck here going from bed to chouch (it's not big enough to be a couch and not small enough to be a chair) and back again.
I just watched Alive from PopTech on KQED world. The best part of this program was the Gigapxl Project. Graham Flint, physicist and engineer, developed cameras that capture images thousands of times more detailed than any photo ever taken. They are so detailed that as one looks closer, it works like a telescope. The image looks like a regular photo at first, and then as we look again we can see even the numbers on a person's watch in a panoramic photo.
Really, you must look at the photos in the Gigapxl project. They are amazing.