Following up on the last post, here’s George Johnson with Stephen Colbert. Where else on TV could someone recreate one of Faraday’s experiments? The new Mr. Wizard?
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Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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May 11th, 2008 at 6:57 am
A French tv channel has a daily science program for young people called “C’est pas Sorcier”(It’s not magic). So far it has had 400 episodes.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I hate that guy, stephen colbert. “God did it”. Fuck that motherfucker. He needs to read Dawkin’s Unweaving the Rainbow damn it.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
It’s either “Ce n’est pas sorcier” or those Frenchies are being sarcastically French. The above translation (#1) means “It’s magic.”
May 11th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Carl: I hope you will delete (and ban) the foul comment from Andrew. Thanks.
P.S. I am enoying Microcosm. Oddly, I put it on hold at my local library, and the library checked it out to me the day before the book was available in stores.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:51 am
The French often leave out “ne” in such cases. It is more literary to say something like “ce n’est pas”, but usually people just say “c’est pas”. They mean the same thing.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Um, Andrew, I think you are missing the point of the show buddy. Take a deep breath.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:04 am
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February 11th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
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