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Messages
- Programme 2
"We
have a house around the corner from the Lime Factory and it is our paradise,
so I have been glued to your programme. Unfortunately, I think the combo
of 13 year old's school science and hand held close up camera is a real
turn off. It's at once simplistic and uninformative. The scenario is also
too forced. The time pressure is unconvincing and the use of external
and local materials is inconsistent so one week someone is making notes
on a leaf, the next they have a convenient PVC tube for barometric pressure.
This isn't pedantic. It's obviously crass to use the challenge format
in the first place, but even more crass to do it so badly. The thing is
Carriacou is precious and the programme debases it with the game-show
format. Unlike the TV programme, the diaries reflect a true engagement
with the island. In fact, what is really interesting is the chasm between
the packaged but scientific presentation of the professional programme
and the more natural, human response in the diaries. And this is a deeper
point than sentimentality or cheap personification.Carriacou has something
to tell us about the point of life. Victorian parlour-game experiments
do not. Incidentally,
predicting the weather on Carriacou is lie betting on dogs. Whilst some
general rules apply, the size of the island and lack of a really high
hill, mean it's very arbitrary if we catch a rain cloud or not. Still,
good luck with the rest of the series."
Raoul De La Bedoyere
"Rough Science
is an excellent programme. It really is fun to watch and encourages you
to look at everyday situations an ojects in a new way. I shall be tuning
in each week to see how you cope with each new challenge. Good luck!"
Peter Stroud
"I saw the programme
last night. Yes, it was good, but: I felt that some of the guys should
have revealed more of what part of the received corpus of knowledge they
were accessing their knowledge from. For example, Kathy should have said,
what many students would know, that her first response to the problem
of magnification/microscopes was to do exactly what Robert Hooke did when
he "made the first telescope". She should have acknowledged this from
the start, not just for the sake of honesty, but also for clarity. I dont
think it is helpful, especially for the lay-person, to look as if the
idea was just plucked out of the air. Or, if she had worked the idea out
from first principles, she could have shown this. Likewise, the guys with
the hair-hygrometer should have said that this has been the standard form
of "desktop" hygrometer for years. Likewise culture medium: a preliminary
announcement that the standard culture medium is agar plus meat broth
and that the raw materials were to hand rather than the implicit suggestion
that they were working from first principles as they went. Overall, I
know it was deliberately dumbed-down for your average audience, but for
the sake of clarity alone, a simple, clear exposition of the basic priciples
involved might have helped."
John Bradford
"I love your
show. It's really intresting + cool some of the stuff on your show. We
do really enjoy it! I love science and I am only 9!!!"
Arielle
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