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The focus would be helping students become more intelligent science consumers by learning how scientific work is done: how ideas are developed and tested, what counts as strong or weak evidence, and how insights from many disciplines fit together into a coherent picture of the world.
It began in the boffins' huts of early BBC TV, where a man called Nigel Kneale conceived a series of lurid yet intelligent science fiction stories in the early 50s, and passed through the fleapit studios of Hammer, which made three Quatermass movies among so many lesser screamers.
"People talk about a golden age in retrospect, but there's been very little intelligent science fiction on television, period," said Paul T. Riddell, a writer and columnist for Sci Fi magazine, pointing to the space-ranger exploits of Captain Video and Flash Gordon as evidence.
Throw in a few silly exaggerations for added measure, like "red wine may well be one of the most effective 'medications' in history" or "I'm just an averagely intelligent science journalist," and you have a perfect piece of click-bait for the lazy editor to shove in the paper.
Throw in a few silly exaggerations for added measure – "red wine may well be one of the most effective 'medications' in history" or "I'm just an averagely intelligent science journalist" – and you have a perfect piece of click-bait for the lazy editor to shove in the paper.
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Like some of the deep ethical, intellectual and even metaphysical questions posed by the novel (intelligent science-fiction fits cosily into the adrenaline-doused battle sequences and emergency ship manoeuvres) these twists occasionally seem to come too late in the novel to unleash their full impact.
But the lessons learnt in Norway's fisheries provide hope that an intelligent, science-led, highly regulated/policed system, which incorporates a discard ban, can be adopted much sooner than the 2020 deadline being proposed by the MPs on the EFRA committee.
The hyperkinetic plot is so incoherent -- and so far removed from the intelligent, science-based stories on which this series built its reputation -- that the cartoonish capers of the diminished heroine and her sycophantic followers (including one who has been raised from the dead) are not worth the effort to pursue.
"We're developing technology similar to that of Quora or Reddit, where incentives to contribute are paired with intelligent data science to determine which contributions to highlight," Heller told me.
Recent movies that we have found to be well done and appropriate include the seven-part Nova "Evolution" series (2001), "War on Science: Intelligent Design in the Classroom" (2006), "Flock of Dodos" (2007), and "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" (2008; some available in part or whole online, see Table 2).
But this was a crowd of believers in intelligent design, not science.
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