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Post by Moose on Dec 30, 2022 0:35:45 GMT
Is anyone watching these? Very interesting this year - about a thousand year old skeleton and the various methods that can be used to determine who (vaguely) it might have been.
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Post by tangent on Dec 30, 2022 0:54:51 GMT
They have, in the recent past, been geared towards children and have not been informative. This has rather put me off them.
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Post by Moose on Dec 30, 2022 1:35:53 GMT
I learned a lot of new stuff . And I think it's pretty cool that they are trying to get kids interested in science.
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Post by Moose on Dec 30, 2022 1:37:12 GMT
One thing that really interested me was that they were able to take two years' growth of a woman's hair and tell exactly where she had been living during those two years..
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Post by JoeP on Dec 30, 2022 9:02:23 GMT
One thing that really interested me was that they were able to take two years' growth of a woman's hair and tell exactly where she had been living during those two years.. At home ... because of lockdown?
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Post by tangent on Dec 30, 2022 10:32:44 GMT
Pfft!
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Post by Moose on Dec 31, 2022 0:20:04 GMT
LOL no, all over the world seemingly but good point.
We're watching the second one right now
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Post by ceptimus on Dec 31, 2022 16:50:51 GMT
The Eric Laithwaite ones, "The Engineer Through the Looking Glass" from 1974 were the high point for me. youtu.be/WCLLGqvpp7oAfter watching them, I found out he'd also done a previous set, "The Engineer in Wonderland" in 1966. Of course, there was no YouTube then, but I found a book of the lectures had been published, which I eventually managed to read. I watched all the lectures on TV for many years, but like Tangent, I've found the recent offerings to be increasingly 'dumbed down' to the point where I learned nothing. I've missed the last few sets in consequence.
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Post by tangent on Dec 31, 2022 22:36:30 GMT
I've just watched episode 1 of this year's Christmas lecture and I was pleasantly surprised that, although the audience were all children, it was not dumbed down to the level of an six-year-old. There was a lot of interesting information, most of it new to me.
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Post by Moose on Dec 31, 2022 23:00:20 GMT
I've still got to watch the third of this year's but I honestly have been enjoying them.
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Post by tangent on Dec 31, 2022 23:09:26 GMT
I'm pleased you alerted them to me.
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