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Re: Rough Science




This sounds like a neat show but there is an error in the web address which
should be:

http://www.pbs.org/weta/roughscience/

At 10:10 AM 10/29/02 -0600, you wrote:

Has anyone seen the weekly PBS show of this name (http://www.pbs.org/=
weta/roughscience/) that puts scientists on a tropical island with on=
ly materials from 19th century technology and assigns various tasks f=
or them to do (see http://www.pbs.org/weta/roughscience/challenges/)?=
It's sort of a "Mr. Wizard meets Reality TV."

Last night the scientists were assigned the tasks of 1) building and =
operating a radio transmitter and receiver, 2) building a clock capab=
le of sounding a bell on the hour, 3) a portable timepiece, and 4) a =
kite made from all natural materials on the island. An attempt to bu=
ild a ice-maker didn't work.

The show is a little rushed (I suppose to keep the "tedious" parts of=
science to a minimum), but the ingenuity (assuming it isn't scripted=
) is interesting.

No nuclear tasks... yet. ;-)

Rick Strickert
Austin, TX

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or
the AAPT.


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