Comments on: LOST University

By: Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:17:34 +0000

A greater appreciation of science can never go awry.

By: Belinda Goldate

Belinda Goldate — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:09:27 +0000

Hi Sean,

I am writing an article about the Lost University. I was just wondering what subject you were teaching or helping with? Basically I am trying to write an article about the Lost University, so that people in Australia know about it.

I cannot find any press releases anywhere and I would really like a quote from someone who knows anything about it…lol

Can you help me by saying something about the course or Lost University??

I am a devoted Lost fan and also journalist. Thank you for your time, good luck with it all. I will be enrolled at Lost University, so I might do one of your subjects.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Belinda Goldate

By: New Lost Arg? « Photomaniacal

New Lost Arg? « Photomaniacal — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:26:12 +0000

[...] 28th July Thanks to Robert who has provided us with this link to an interesting article on the Lost University.Update: 25th July Looks like this is not actually [...]

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:07:06 +0000

Unlike Coolstar, I find LOST to be an incredible TV experience. Through the show, I’ve learned a bunch of science, such as the Casimir Effect. I’ve spent hours upon hours wrapping my brain around jargon-filled articles and it’s been great fun doing it.

I hated the very end of last season though, it took my two favorite characters (John and Ben) and in essence said: “Every horrible thing you’ve gone through for the time you’ve been on the show didn’t matter, you were just plot devices”. I’m really afraid that they’re going to go down a “Flight 815 never happened and it’s all fluffy bunnies and kittens for most of the characters” path but oh well, I’m there ’til the bitter end. I look forward to playing the LOSTU game and learning more stuff.

Oh, and Michael G’s music is fantastic.

By: wev

wev — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:30:25 +0000

@greg, it is possible, however, that television can be used to raise the public’s awareness of quality primary and secondary education.

The majority of people in this country do not go to college, for whatever reason, although many of them do have the intellectual ability. Offering an engaging connection and introduction to formal study is simply not as negative as an academic purist might think.

The more people can be inspired to value quality education for themselves and their children, the sooner this country can begin to find its way out of the morass of ignorance.

By: greg

greg — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:32:37 +0000

If one has to hope television (as opposed to quality primary and secondary education) is needed to raise the public’s awareness of science, then all is LOST.

By: TheMagician

TheMagician — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:57:51 +0000

@coolstar, Skimming through Sean’s rules LOST does obey all of them, or at least it hasn’t broken any of them.

Quoting Dr. Faraday (physicist and professor on LOST), “You cannot change anything; you can’t. Even if you tried to, it wouldn’t work… whatever happened, happened.”

And talking about the accuracy of science on LOST, it is actually pretty accurate (just search for ‘LOST’ at popularmechanics.com), but LOST University is merely an ARG.

By: coolstar

coolstar — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:42:39 +0000

I find Lost incredibly boring, so I won’t be watching this, but it’s good to hear that they didn’t obey Sean’s time travel rules, because if they did, they couldn’t effectively use time travel at all! As for teaching science and math thru Buffy and Numbers, I’m all for it; Angels and Demons, not so much (hard to think of ANY science they got right, offhand).