Wired Science

I happen to love watching sat. night PBS.my fav.is as time goes by. And I know others that just love the Brithcoms as well.If they are taken off I want watch PBS asny more there isn't that much I watch on Pbs to start with,I don't know if my friends will still watch or not can't say .
Thasnk you for your time.

Fay; Decatur, Alabama. 5.5.09 2:01 PM PDT

Sorry this is years late, but in "Episode 102 Original Air Date: 10.10.07", the animation early in the segment shows the earth turning the wrong way. California moves toward New York, not the other way around, which is why the sun "rises" in the east.

Edward Rice; Vienna, VA. 5.1.09 6:57 PM PDT

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE SHOW.

BRING IT BACK OR I WILL NEVER WATCH PBS AGAIN!!!

Sothh; Wise, VA. 5.1.09 9:01 AM PDT

This show was great. I can't believe it was canceled. And now they have the really dumb Make magazine show on.... What were you thinking?

Robbie; Greenville, SC. 3.1.09 9:25 PM PST

The food chemistry demos were very entertaining and informative! Have you tried pitching to Discovery? I would love to test sodas for reactive carbonyls! http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/79969.php
Recent Soda/Kidney disease findings http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003431

Thomas E Hamilton; Oceanside, CA. 2.23.09 10:36 AM PST

I love this show, its format: including What's Inside (love the Geek Humor) and interview segments. It's a shame it was not renewed. It's a little faster paced than other PBS shows and covers a broader range of topics. I like the hosts as well.

Resurrect Wired Science or beware Dr. MegaVolt's wrath! (Relax, that's a Hardwickian Geek Joke.)

Michael; Liverpool, NY. 1.6.09 3:42 PM PST

More Chris Hardwick please... LOTS more!!!

Gary White; Toronto, Ontario. 11.11.08 10:01 AM PST

So, let me tell you a bit about "restless leg syndrome". I used to live with a woman who suffered from it. In her case it turned out be the lack of a neurotransmitter....the ever popular Glycine. Yep, Glycine, the simplest of amino aceds, is also a neurotransmitter. It is used by the Renshaw cells in the spinal cord as a feedback inhibitor. Servo mechanism people will know about feedback inhibitors. Glycine is available at health food stores every where. It has a slightly sweet taste.

I hope you know why i am sending you this. If you don't you are probably a journalism major who had to take a bone head science class in your senior year and you bitched about it...I have journalism major friends who did exactly this.

Later
John

John; Spokane, WA. 10.20.08 2:41 PM PDT

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I like the show, and hope that PBS/Wired are working on new episodes. It's a good mix of subjects and sets. I want to learn about what is happening outside of the 1-minute blurbs on other news/science programs.

I like the segment with Chris Hardwick titled "What's Inside"; he makes it fun enough, but presents as a teaser or puzzle. I'm one of the group of people (a minority of Americans) that likes to find out how things work and then put them back together.

The interviews are good in bringing different people in society that may be doing or funding science and science research. These people aren't often appearing in the news, even outlets like NPR, which seem to be focused on yuppies 401k's. The natural world is happening and changing and we still need to know how that is changing and affecting us.

Keep producing shows.

Other science news programs I listen to:

Science Friday, NPR
NOVA, PBS
Nova Science NOW, PBS
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johan; St. Paul, MN. 10.17.08 7:53 AM PDT

Please bring it back!

Matt; Plymouth, MA. 10.17.08 6:49 AM PDT

Bring back the show with ziya!!!!!

Fred; los angeles, ca. 10.5.08 1:54 PM PDT

Loved the show- bring it back with Ziya and Chis!!!!

Peter Grey; , . 10.2.08 1:34 PM PDT

I just discovered your show and sadly realized there are no more episodes. You guys should really bring it back. It was actually fun nerdtv. Bring it back!!

shred savage; Los Angeles, Ca. 9.22.08 2:14 AM PDT

Hey! Loved the show and the hosts. Is it ever returning? Please bring it back.

jack lytle; Phoenix, AZ. 9.16.08 7:53 PM PDT

Well, I've got mixed feelings about this show. Back a year ago or a little more, there was some set of new science shows being shown on PBS, touting one of them as "The New PBS Science Show." I got really scared. "Oh, no, they're going to trash NOVA! The BEST Science show ever, ever, ever!" I mean, OK, some people don't have the attention span to delve into one scientific subject more than 5 or 10 minutes... and Scientific American was meeting those needs, I thought. Not that there wasn't room for another science program, a well done science program, in a different vein. But the way they were saying it was if it was to replace Nova, as if Nova was stale. Nova has always been top caliber Science programming, examining one scientific subject in as much detail as possible in one hour (sometimes more in multi-episode programs)

So along comes these test programs, including Wired Science.

Well, they're OK. Sometimes they try to be "edgy" or something, appealing to a younger croud, with a Smarmy offering of Chris Hardwick, etc. I actually sometimes find his "What's Inside" more annoying than informing. Sorry, Chris, just ratchet down the Smarminess, and I'd probably enjoy it.

But all in all, actually, it's not a bad show. As long as we keep Nova. Don't trash the best, just because some people don't have the attention span necessary, becuase that's what Science requires, in the end.

Mike; Los Angeles, CA. 9.13.08 7:08 PM PDT

I thoroughly enjoy What's in It, especially the witicism, I thought only I could be so lame. Most shows are well thought out and very informative. Keep up the great work, from a guy who never took a science class in college but can't get enough now.

Bob Fry; Palm Desert, California. 8.27.08 3:22 PM PDT

The segment on analog vs. digital left out one important element. There are THREE levels, not two. There is analog, complete digital and compressed digital (MP3). There is a whale of a lot of sound quality lost in compressed digital. I have heard the difference between MP3s and CDs. It is breathtaking. People are losing the quality of sound by getting and using "compressed" sound.

Wayne; Los Angeles, CA. 8.14.08 10:40 AM PDT

My PBS station does pledge drives in May - IIRC the show was already gone before it had the chance to be interrupted by pledge drives.

Public TV/Radio Fan; Cincinnati, OH. 8.8.08 11:45 AM PDT

please bring the show back. it reflects everything we love about PBS; and we're tired of those old Britcoms anyway.

zoe harolds; santa monica, ca. 7.30.08 10:42 PM PDT

Rainwater strips carbon dioxide from air. For example, almost all the CO2 in the atmosphere could be absorbed by only three meters of water. This is because only a trace amount of carbon dioxide is present in air. Therefore, CO2 concentration is not increasing. But CO2 hysteria continues to spread, due to biased reports that CO2 is increasing in concentration, and due to claims that it will cause global warming someday soon. The truth is that CO2 is so scarce in air that it is difficult to even measure its concentration.
Another reason why CO2 cannot cause global warming is because the sky is colder than the ground. So, cold CO2 cannot warm the earth. The second law of thermodynamics dictates that heat cannot transfer from the cold sky to the warm ground. Temperature of the sky is easy to measure with an infrared thermometer. For example, on a typical sunny day the sky has a negative temperature (like -15). Low cost infrared thermometers are easy to obtain now, but weather reports do not mention “sky temperature” yet.
Perhaps, the CO2 hysteria is being created to cause inflation. Some rich people become richer because of inflation.

Richard Blakely; Edmonton, Alberta. 7.30.08 6:40 PM PDT