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Now playing on BBC 4 - 28,29,30th of December at 8PM - and also on iPlayer if you miss one. 
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010
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Terry Hollands is on one, might have been last nights. Gotta be worth a watch.
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Yep, Terry Hollands is in the first lecture.
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Soldato
The RI Christmas lectures haven't been the same since Bryson Gore got his Doctorate and stopped bringing in the demonstrations 
Will still watch though as I have for the last 30 years Even got to go and see Frank Close do The Cosmic Onion in '93 (As a responsible adult!!! LOL) 
Will still watch though as I have for the last 30 years
Even got to go and see Frank Close do The Cosmic Onion in '93 (As a responsible adult!!! LOL) 
Man of Honour
The best to watch was probably the late Eric Lathewaite. Carl Sagan was good, but suffered from the fact that there wasn't much he could show in the studio.
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watched these when i was growing up
will watch it on catchup
will watch it on catchup
Caporegime
The bloke doing this year's is annoying me. He's like a bungling oaf.
Soldato
yeah he`s not very good lol
going on about dropping a hamster off a roof lol
talking to kids about that isnt good
Soldato
I found them incredibly difficult to watch. It's like the guy is acting out a book about things not to do when teaching. He's all over the place. For shame.
Soldato
It's pretty disjointed so far. I appreciate that it's very challenging to explain ideas to kids that adults would find hard to grasp, but I think he's darting from one thing to the next too haphazardly. Hard to follow.
Carl Sagan! whats this? Is that in the link Simulatorman posted?
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Wasn't too enamoured with the presenter this year, as opposed to the last 4-5 who have all been really really excellent. Great fun though none the less.
Also nice to see it back on the Beeb.
Also nice to see it back on the Beeb.
Man of Honour
He's not in that link but his lectures are in here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIjXuKCQHg
You might also want to take a little look here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SagansCosmos
Caporegime
Interesting. What was Carl Sagan on about when he said there was a new planet discovered between Saturn and Uranus?
EDIT: NM. It was 2060 Chiron, an object with characteristics of both a comet and asteroid.
EDIT: NM. It was 2060 Chiron, an object with characteristics of both a comet and asteroid.
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He's not in that link but his lectures are in here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIjXuKCQHg
You might also want to take a little look here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SagansCosmos
Cheers. I've already seen them.
Soldato
For those of you out there that might enjoy something a little more in depth than the royal institution will go into (given that it is aimed at kids), back in 2006, the University of Berkeley made a series of webcasts called "Physics for future presidents" which basically is a series of short(ish) lectures about the core principles of physics.
Starts with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysbZ_j2xi0 and runs for about 20 or so lectures, each about 90 minutes long. Now of course, these are proper lectures, so are not quite as showy as the RI ones, but to me, are much more interesting. Hope that someone will enjoy them too..
Starts with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysbZ_j2xi0 and runs for about 20 or so lectures, each about 90 minutes long. Now of course, these are proper lectures, so are not quite as showy as the RI ones, but to me, are much more interesting. Hope that someone will enjoy them too..
Caporegime
There's also some interesting stuff on iTunes U(niversity). I was in hysterics at some mad Dutch professor teaching physics at MIT.