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Article #3829Re: Natural Philosophy
From: nos
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:32
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:32
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A friend I went to Uni now does this sort of thing full time at the Investigator Science centre in Adelaide. Hands on science - they even have a huge Tesla coil. He goes on TV just like the curiosity show. Now that's something I grew up with ...lol nos "Gregory Toomey" <gtoomey@usa.net> wrote in message news:qlL27.25961$e5.83849@newsfeeds.bigpond.com... > > "Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message > news:oAL17.24100$e5.68968@newsfeeds.bigpond.com... > > I remember that years ago, Prof.Harry Messel and his team of scientists > used > > to conduct the "Summer School of Science" which was televised by Channel > 9. > > It was as part of this popularising of science that the topic of "General > > Science" was discussed - the attempt to integrate the various sciences > into > > one. > > Messel's cohort Julius Sumner Miller is making a comeback long after his > death. > "Why is it So" now makes a regular appearance on Foxtel's TV1. Maybe there > are more closet physicists than people realise. > http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/wyisitso.html > > "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" - Rutherford. > > gtoomey > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd648,d8ae7f7e6a186f3d X-Google-Attributes: gidfd648,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 22:29:25 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!203.50.2.79!intgwlon.nntp.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail From: "nos" <nos@granite.net.au> Newsgroups: aus.science References: <oAL17.24100$e5.68968@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <qlL27.25961$e5.83849@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> Subject: Re: Natural Philosophy Lines: 36 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: <KuR27.50$Ab3.10388@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:02:39 +0930 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.38.211.68 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 994829354 203.38.211.68 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:29:14 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:29:14 EST Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct