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They should film him with a majestic helicopter pan as he stands on the top of a mountain and explains gravity.

While fighting Brian Cox hand to hand.

As Richard Dawkins once put it:
“Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.”

As prof. Cox touched on, we don't just need people at college/university, but we need a public that understands the scientific method and thinking. I mean forget higher education for a bit, what we need, is middle school and hell, kindergardens, that teach kids HOW to think, not what to think. You dont need everyone to know the mass of the Higgs or what the Golgi apparatus does, what you need is for everyone to understand what kind of thinking that led to discover such facts, we need humans trained in the art of critical thinking, people with stimulates the brain. If kids have learned nothing else in school by the age of 15, at least they should have learned critical thinking.

>> ^ponceleon:

Don't have time to see the whole thing now, but I feel like the new challenge for journalism in the information age is that they need to understand that freedom of the press is not freedom to report without checking facts. Sensationalism is the rule rather than actual reporting. In an age where "reality" TV is scripted and caters to the lowest commmon denominator, as a society we have to hope that this too will bounce back.
If anyone saw last night's South Park, it was pure brilliance. We just need James Cameron to come in and raise the bar dammit!


Journalists work for money the same as most folks. Good journalism in the sense you're talking about takes time, and therefore is expensive. Furthermore, balanced, dry articles about the nuanced nature of the world around us don't lend themselves well to attention-grabbing headlines, a problem perhaps exacerbated by the need for page views and the ability to track, per article posted, what people view most.

I mean, really, what are more people going to want to read - or rather, see - "Higgs Boson identified with high probability" or "Lady Catherine caught with her tits out - photos inside!"?

We've conflated information with entertainment. I wonder how to turn that particular tide back.

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Cox would do well... Britain and America both have a history of electing penis pluralities to their governments.

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>> ^Trancecoach:

Does this account for inflation? What/Where are the actual numbers?


Inflation would favour science - a payment today has a set value (bank bailouts) but payments in the past only stand to increase. If it doesn't account for inflation then i can't imagine how it would add up when you consider that the prices of HOUSES rapidly reduce to merely thousands of pounds when you go back only a hundred years (or less according to my nan) in britain.

This is one case of a trustable talking head though. I'm not a fan of brian cox but he is a very good physicist and he wouldn't say it if he hadn't thoroughly checked which is more than i can say for the others on the panel. I'd also like to see a simple chart though, because his words are wise - imagine what could be done if we weren't getting robbed blind and led by the fucking blind.

>> ^Porksandwich:

Couldn't understand a lot of what was said after the "drip" part.


There certainly was a lot of talking over each other, but this is what I heard:


Cox: "I think that just a drip of that quantative easing to the science budget would possibly transform our economy."

Campbell: "He could get into Downing Street anytime he wants, and why don't you stand for parliament?"

Cox: *Stammers*

Neil: "Good answer"

Cox: "Not much happens then does it, I think you've got to be ..."

Portillo: "don't you have a 15 year term in the House of Lords?"

Cox: " .. don't you have to be Prime Minister, at least, until you can get anything done?"

I'd be gay for Brian Cox.

>> ^garmachi:

Please stop calling it the god particle.


Upvote twice if I could.

Brian Cox explains the LHC at TED, recommended watching.
http://videosift.com/video/Brian-Cox-at-TEDtalks-on-the-Large-Hadron-Collider

>> ^budzos:

It's funny because you think you're empathic and I'm sympathetic with bullies when really it's the other way around.
1. Enjoy sucking down the big corporate cock
2. I never said the shover was a victim. I'm saying it's not necessary to involve the police in something so trivial. It doesn't help anything. It's an overreaction. It's not justice. It just makes you feel better, or something.
3. Suck that dick




im gonna go find a kid wearing something all corporate like an Adidas shirt and kick them right in the face....cuz fuck the man. youre warped. seriously

the irony is youre shouting from your soapbox using internet provided by, likely, a major corporation, like cox, and likely, from a mac.

but please keep telling us how this man-baby is championing the anti corporate resistance by shoving a young girl and being an all around douche fuck