Forces of Nature with Brian Cox

Emp_Fab · July 2016

I've never seen this before tonight - but wow.... I've learned so much and also felt strangely chilled out at the same time.

Well worth watching in my opinion.

For example... despite living by the sea for the majority of my life, I had no idea that when I watch the tides coming in and out, what's actually happening is that the oceans are effectively stationary, bulging out at the sides of the Earth and it is the land that is moving into and out of the stationary oceans, thus creating the effect of tides.

not_the_dj · July 2016

Watch the first one on the iPlayer....brilliant series so far.

paulmapp8306 · July 2016

I pretty much love everything Cox does. He's the David attenborough of his generation.

quarky · July 2016

He is great. I have recorded it, but haven't watched it yet. I just love that he is so enthusiastic about science.

not_the_dj · July 2016

Hoping we have a really cold snap this winter so we try that bubble blowing thing he did in the first one.

TheMarlin · July 2016

I can't stand the man. He'll spout any old crap, regardless of whether it's supported by scientific fact or not. He's a little science b1tch for the BBC.

axisus · July 2016

So the sea is still, and the land goes in and out. Er, yeah right. Was he smoking some weird roll up whilst presenting?

paulnb57 · July 2016

He sends me to sleep!

Bogwhoppit · July 2016

paulnb57 said:

He sends me to sleep!

Same here, that's why I record it to watch when going to bed. It save's using my limited supply of zopiclone.

SteveRobinson · July 2016

I watched 20 mins of the first one and found it very slow. It would be better if Brian could just post a few bullet points and save everyone an hour.

quarky · July 2016

paulnb57 said:

He sends me to sleep!

I think I send my kids to sleep in the same way. The other day I was trying to explain about how bubbles form in coke and they had a glazed look in their eyes.. I just find large swathes of science (apart from biology I guess) fascinating.

ESchap · July 2016

Drivel compared to his earlier series. A load of tenuous links which seem to just be an excuse for another all expenses paid round the world trip for him.

Jalapeno · July 2016

ESchap said:

Drivel compared to his earlier series. A load of tenuous links which seem to just be an excuse for another all expenses paid round the world trip for him.

It does have the whiff of an all expenses mini-break about it. Although he was just voice-over for the Amazon & Greenland sections (lot of emotive father & son waffle there I thought)

scrumhalf · July 2016

REgardless of the programme content, I just can't stand his simpering delivery.

axisus · July 2016

I actually like Brian Cox very much on the whole, I just don't watch much TV so rarely see him.

thomasross20 · July 2016

paulnb57 said:

He sends me to sleep!

Me, too!

ICBM · July 2016

I used to like him a lot, but I've seen a few things recently where he has definitely appeared more as a rent-a-scientist and dumbed the subject down - he maybe thinks he needs to do that in order to reach a wider audience.

He's much better when he's in his proper area of expertise - astro/quantum physics - a few of the things he's done on that were quite profound and worthwhile, I thought pitched just right be be understandable without being too oversimplified.

FX_Munkee · July 2016

Honestly couln't give a toss whether any of you lot enjoyed it or not :P. I'm just desparately hoping that it might inspire some of the younger generation to study and work in science. I genuinely do hope he can become some sort of Attenborough for this generation, specifically for this reason.

axisus · July 2016

FX_Munkee said:

Honestly couln't give a toss whether any of you lot enjoyed it or not :P. I'm just desparately hoping that it might inspire some of the younger generation to study and work in science. I genuinely do hope he can become some sort of Attenborough for this generation, specifically for this reason.

Yeah, I'm with you. Surely he's the most 'recognised' scientific presenter we have ever had in the UK, which is no bad thing in drawing kids and young people into science. Infinitely more marketable than Patrick Moore or Magnus Pike!

Myranda · July 2016

He's great fun on The Infinite Monkey Cage

Axe_meister · July 2016

It was Jonny Ball when I was a kid, and a really old guy an another science show (I remember his face but nothing else)

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