TV shows praised for teaching physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796460
I was happy to read about the upcoming TV show Design Squad and look forward to watching it. I was an enthusiastic viewer of the now cancelled Junkyard Wars on the TLC cable channel. The show at least initially did a good job of teaching “stealth science” in a way that was both exciting and educational. I saw it as a way to get young people interested in sciences by active demonstration. Unfortunately, Junkyard Wars changed its tone to compete with “reality” shows, which turned me off. The UK version, Scrapheap Challenge, is still in production, but apparently no American market is interested in airing it.
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Robert Oppenheimer. (oppie@cloud9.net) White Plains, New York, US .
