We’re currently watching The Ascent Of Man on iPlayer
Became fascinated by J Bronowski - check this out for an obituary…. What an incredible person!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 9:02,
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I loved that series.
Died way too early. The kind of homo universalis that has become almost extinct.
He was a personal friend of Leo Szilard, the man who conceived the idea of the nuclear chain reaction, with the newly discovered neutrons.
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Mex3 =mememe, Sun 10 Sep 2023, 20:22,
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It's absolutely compelling to watch
and at some points very anachronistic - they keep referring to four-hundred-thousand instead of four billion as we'd not given in and adopted the American billion=100,000,000. Also, we've found a few more elements for the periodic table.
Bruno was the kind of polymath who doesn't come along that often.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 12:28,
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