Following up on the last post, here's George Johnson with Stephen Colbert. Where else on TV could someone recreate one of Faraday's experiments? The new Mr. Wizard?
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"Why Do We Have to Junk It Up With Science?"
Category: General • Life Science • Physical Science
Posted on: May 10, 2008 11:31 AM, by Carl Zimmer
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A French tv channel has a daily science program for young people called "C'est pas Sorcier"(It's not magic). So far it has had 400 episodes.
Posted by: bernarda | May 11, 2008 6:57 AM
I hate that guy, stephen colbert. "God did it". Fuck that motherfucker. He needs to read Dawkin's Unweaving the Rainbow damn it.
Posted by: andrew | May 11, 2008 8:24 PM
It's either "Ce n'est pas sorcier" or those Frenchies are being sarcastically French. The above translation (#1) means "It's magic."
Posted by: Elachim | May 11, 2008 9:58 PM
Carl: I hope you will delete (and ban) the foul comment from Andrew. Thanks.
P.S. I am enoying Microcosm. Oddly, I put it on hold at my local library, and the library checked it out to me the day before the book was available in stores.
Posted by: Seamus MacAmus | May 11, 2008 10:34 PM
The French often leave out "ne" in such cases. It is more literary to say something like "ce n'est pas", but usually people just say "c'est pas". They mean the same thing.
Posted by: bernarda | May 12, 2008 5:51 AM
Um, Andrew, I think you are missing the point of the show buddy. Take a deep breath.
Posted by: Leukocyte | May 12, 2008 8:35 PM