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Thanks for your response - feel free to rant. I agree with what you said, but given there's only so many hours in the day, and I only watch TV to "switch my br

Thanks for your response - feel free to rant. I agree with what you said, but given there's only so many hours in the day, and I only watch TV to "switch my brain off", I didn't feel it worth the cost given that Netflix et al fills that hole just fine- for far less. To get my science / nature / news I turn to podcasts.

LatteLazy 6y ago
Thanks for YOUR response! Sorry if mine was too confrontational. I definately know what you mean. I've spent more time vegitating in front of Brooklyn Nine-nine than watching enriching educational material myself. May I recommend 2 BBC podcasts for science etc as our ships pass in the night? The life scientific 40 to 60min interviews with scientists about what they do, how they did it, why they ended up in the field. Very interesting! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 More or Less A statistics program. Only about 20m per episode, they take a statistical question or a lie or similar and research where it came from and what the truth is. There are some really good episodes on Covid stats recently as well as a few that answer (disprove) articles that have cropped up here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads Both have RSS feeds.
- CodeGlitch 6y ago
  Will check those out. Thanks again. Edit: aha it has Professor Jim Al-Khalili in it... He is an excellent presenter
- UK-Al05 6y ago
  There's tons science courses, maths courses and stats courses on the internet where you learn these things in depth. Most documentaries are often 'pop' takes at things.
  - LatteLazy 6y ago
    I think the BBC are actually really great at avoiding the pop trap. They either do it very well or they just don't do it. I'd point to a lot of popular podcasts as "pop" rip offs of BBC pieces. "Stuff you should know" is really just "In Our Time" with easier topics and no experts for instance. Plus no 500 episode backlog over several decades.

LatteLazy 6y ago

Thanks for YOUR response! Sorry if mine was too confrontational. I definately know what you mean. I've spent more time vegitating in front of Brooklyn Nine-nine than watching enriching educational material myself. May I recommend 2 BBC podcasts for science etc as our ships pass in the night? The life scientific 40 to 60min interviews with scientists about what they do, how they did it, why they ended up in the field. Very interesting! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 More or Less A statistics program. Only about 20m per episode, they take a statistical question or a lie or similar and research where it came from and what the truth is. There are some really good episodes on Covid stats recently as well as a few that answer (disprove) articles that have cropped up here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads Both have RSS feeds.

CodeGlitch 6y ago
Will check those out. Thanks again. Edit: aha it has Professor Jim Al-Khalili in it... He is an excellent presenter
UK-Al05 6y ago
There's tons science courses, maths courses and stats courses on the internet where you learn these things in depth. Most documentaries are often 'pop' takes at things.
- LatteLazy 6y ago
  I think the BBC are actually really great at avoiding the pop trap. They either do it very well or they just don't do it. I'd point to a lot of popular podcasts as "pop" rip offs of BBC pieces. "Stuff you should know" is really just "In Our Time" with easier topics and no experts for instance. Plus no 500 episode backlog over several decades.