YouTube Science Experiment #1
Editors' note - Man-on-the-street interviews are so last century, as who settles for the plain old street when you’ve got the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY? Therefore, wanting to gauge the scientific knowledge and thoughts of the global public, we dispatched Jake Byrnes to be our correspondent on the main internet thoroughfare of YouTube. On a pseudo-monthly basis, Jake will poll the webcam populace on various scientific inquiries, then edit the responses into a rich, ultra-high production value tapestry of intelligent discourse. Here now, with his first dispatch from the streaming-video field, is Jake Byrnes:
Mass Spectator
Science is no longer exclusively found in dusty old journal pages and highlighter-saturated used textbooks, it's made the transition to other media as well. From the much-neglected science networks in the triple digits of your satellite lineup to the low-bitrate landscapes of YouTube, from the dry, stodgy documentaries to the pretty faces and flimsy facts of TV medical dramas, science's noble pursuit is now one more food group of content for the insatiable entertainment machine. In Mass Spectator, we corral some of that showbiz science for your discerning edutainment.
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