#science tv

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Shows like Mythbusters and Outrageous Acts of Science should be required viewing for, well, everyone.

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Cosmos Returns to TV on March 9 with “Possible Worlds”

by Daryle Lockhart

Many decades ago, a young Carl Sagan daydreamed on the rug of a tenement, envisioning something quite unique for someone so young: a drawing filled with a boy’s dreams of the Space Age and interstellar exploration. A world-renowned visionary, Sagan lived those dreams and shared them with the world in COSMOS: A Personal Voyage, sparking the most beloved science franchise in television history. Now, 40 years after it was introduced to a global audience, this epic voyage reaches new heights of adventure with the highly anticipated third season, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS, which starts on Monday Night. 

“My heart is bursting with  excitement and anticipation”, Ann Druyan told me. “It’s so wonderful to be able to share these stories with everyone. It’s like falling  in love, you just want to tell everyone you see!”

You can definitely feel that love from the first episode. This newest season of COSMOS delivers fact-based storytelling and continues to convey complex scientific concepts. But that was also true of the first two series, “A Spacetime Odyssey” and “A Personal Journey”. What’s different in this season is that the science is a bit more complex, and the stories feel a little more impactful. This season is more mature than the previous seasons, so if you’re one of the many viewers who watched “Cosmos” with your family, and your kids are older now, this show has grown up with them and is explaining things in a way that respects that growth. If you already have a basis in science and science history, you will probably enjoy this season a bit more than others.

This season’s episodes range from time traveling adventures to past eras that reveal unsung scientific heroes who sacrificed everything in the pursuit of scientific revelation, to hidden places where life may have begun on Earth, to some of the lost worlds of our ancestors and to the possible worlds of our remote descendants.

As always, the production style of the show is comparable to your favorite  science fiction show. It’s beautiful to watch. 

Ann talked to me about the look and feel of the show. It depicts a very optimistic view of the future, even when it’s delivering bad news. “So many visions of the future are dystopian and dark. I think that together, we can create a future that  is optimistic and positive. But we have to stand up for it. We have to fight for it.”

COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS gives great inspiration - and information - for you to continue that fight for a positive future. Episodes begin airing Monday, March 9, at 8/7 c on National Geographic.

About The Author:

Daryle Lockhart is co-founder and editor of ScFiGeneration.com

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170406 Brian - YTN Science TV https://youtu.be/MO0JP0Csz7k

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Headcanon- Science TV

Alex likes science fiction, science fantasy, and science TV. She likes Star Trek, Star Wars, Mythbusters, How the Universe Works, Ocean Mysteries, and the Big Bang Theory.

If there is anything science like on TV, she’ll love to listen to it. She likes to continue learning from the science shows. She also likes to think that scientists will be able to create the things that people believe to be science fiction.

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All you 90s kids love Bill Nye like he is the second coming of science Jesus. 

But he’s not the first.  Oh, no.  80s kids, we had Mr. Wizard's world.  It was literally my favorite thing on TV. 

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PBS presents "Your Inner Fish" w/ Dr. Neil Shubin

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this new look at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates — the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree.

Yet another phenomenal science show from PBS. This one will explore the 350-million-year evolutionary history that gave us our distinctly human anatomy. The series is based on the book written by University of Chicago's Dr. Neil Shubin,  Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008). The three-part series will air on PBS beginning Wed, April 9th and will be made available after on PBS's website (http://www.pbs.org/your-inner-fish/watch/). The website also has some excellent resources to use in the classroom.

Heehee, I'm getting the nerdy-tingles! Aren't you? (I checked... it's not paresthesia. Hah!)