Tag: pbs

  • PBS’73

    PBS’73

    It’s sunny – a rare thing in the United Kingdom of Drizzle, and blasting out new music from a band I’d not previously heard of – PBS’73 and their Viewers Like You album. I heard of them via the excellent Lloydbrary #80 and immediately tracked down their Bandcamp and bought the album. ‘Viewers Like You’,…

  • Pavlov’s Pop – Is Pop Music Brainwashing You?

    Pavlov’s Pop – Is Pop Music Brainwashing You?

    Pop music – does it really exist? I mean of course it does, but as something that is popular, in the way that you choose it? It seems increasingly you don’t – like in Russia the pop chooses you, through incessant repetition. The video from PBS’s Idea Channel above and this article describes it as…

  • Woah. Mind blown.

    Woah. Mind blown.

    Does maths exist? (IT’S MATHS not Math. And it’s Lego, not Legos. Get it right). Love this ‘Brief History’ by the Ideas Channel – and what do you know, Wheezy Waiter pops by!

  • Occupy Sesame Street

    Occupy Sesame Street

    Romney, don’t mess with Big Bird and co. (found on Facebook here) Seriously, with all the terrible literacy and numeracy stats in the US – worst than the UK even in world tables I think – Romney wants to cancel Sesame Street and PBS? Unbelievable. Keep Em Stupid, indeed. I am guessing he’s going to…

  • The Greatest Show is Science

    The Greatest Show is Science

    I love this video from Symphony of Science – classic stuff with Dawkins, Attenborough and co. and a different take from the space ones. I wish John D. Boswell would take on archaeology next – that’s not only full of wonderful clips, I think it would make a great video! When people make all those…

  • Al Jarnow’s Cosmic Clock

    Al Jarnow’s Cosmic Clock

    Al Jarnow educational and exceedingly trippy 70’s animator for PBS progams such as Sesame Street does this explaination of time (amazed he didn’t end with the explosion of the sun, but I suppose that’s a major downer for kids 😉 Via toysandtechniques blog you can see more at this amazing trailer for a new release…

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