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Re: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Philip Monro — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:00 -0000

I agree this is fantastic. I am basically a dyslexic biologist who has a bent for inventions. Love teaching at all levels and in awe of this guy. Fascinating about certainty and just trying things out. On BBC children's TV there used to a a childs programme called Morph where a person "live" is making lotss of clay people with different persionalities and moods etc. Then suddenly he would some time grab two figures make a new big one out of it and then divide the ball into two and make two new people. nI worked for some time with a very, very clever lady called TR. I drove her mad with my zig zag and disorganised experiments and she drove me mad with her APPARENT lack of vision and would keep a perfect notebook with three different colours of underlining. Once she stated on a path she kept going for in my opinion for far too long. nI always thought we need a "Morph" science director who rolled us into a single ball then dividied us into two to give TWO FANATASTIC SCIENTISTS. Sadly she died of cancer so we will never know.

Re: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Philip Monro — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:04:00 -0000

I agree this is fantastic. I am basically a dyslexic biologist who has a bent for inventions. Love teaching at all levels and in awe of this guy. Fascinating about certainty and just trying things out. On BBC children's TV there used to a a childs programme called Morph where a person "live" is making lotss of clay people with different persionalities and moods etc. Then suddenly he would some time grab two figures make a new big one out of it and then divide the ball into two and make two new people.
I worked for some time with a very, very clever lady called TR. I drove her mad with my zig zag and disorganised experiments and she drove me mad with her APPARENT lack of vision and would keep a perfect notebook with three different colours of underlining. Once she stated on a path she kept going for in my opinion for far too long.
I always thought we need a "Morph" science director who rolled us into a single ball then dividied us into two to give TWO FANATASTIC SCIENTISTS. Sadly she died of cancer so we will never know.

Re: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Stephen — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:02:13 -0000

The program is available as one single video on Google Video here = http://video.google.com/vid...