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Vic Reeves is taking over as the presenter of Brainiac, that bloke from Top Gear has Read the rest of this entry »
In search of a better bang
Ben Goldacre
Saturday July 29, 2006
The Guardian
Like many other ex-RAF old duffers with handlebar moustaches in their early thirties who read the Daily Mail, I’ve often imagined that school science these days is rather boring and staid – not enough explosions – as a result of an obsession with health and safety, and perhaps other forms of political correctness that has “gone mad”Â. The teachers I meet, on the other hand, tell me that the increasingly feral nature of children is a greater cause for concern.
So imagine my delight at being sent this fabulous instructional video made with CLEAPSS, the body that advises schools on health and safety in science (qurl.com/pop). A few minutes in, you get to see the bloke from CLEAPSS bung some Read the rest of this entry »
Brainiac “Fraud” “Slammed” In The Evening Standard And The Independent
And some of you have been quoted. Nice. If any of you are here from the Evening Standard looking for more on the Brainiac fake experiments nonsense then click here (or, er, buy the Guardian):
There’s lots of other quackbusting action on the site, listed by topic down the right hand side of the page, and there’s much more on the Brainiac fake experiments thing in tomorrow’s Bad Science column which I’ll Read the rest of this entry »
Better Than Brainiac
Now this is what I’m talking about: real kids, exploring real science. Observe the illusion of “centrifugal” force.
Who’s The Daddy?
Ben Goldacre
Saturday July 22, 2006
The Guardian
Like any other reactionary old fart in his early thirties there’s nothing I find more life affirming than internet scare stories, ideally involving terrorists and paedophiles using Napster to destroy the British music industry, which is why I am so pleased to have one of my own: Theodore Gray, the man who managed to score over a kilo and a half of pure sodium metal off Ebay.
Now at school you probably dropped a crumb of sodium into some water, or rather, you watched your chemistry teacher do it, Read the rest of this entry »
Ka-Boom! Science! COOL!!?!
Ben Goldacre
Saturday July 22, 2006
The Guardian
The new series of Sky’s explosion-laden hit science program “Brainiac” starts tomorrow, and there’s just one question on everyone’s lips: will they be faking the science as much in this series as they have previously? Read the rest of this entry »
