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04.06.2005

VCR vs. VHS

Television

I was shown a pair of HDTV signals; one from component inputs and the other from
coax input. The coax input looked very crappy because there wasn’t enough video
information for all the pixels on the screen and it resulted in an interference
pattern on the screen that looked like miniature squares loaded diagonally all
over the picture. This [...]

 wasps and spoons 

     "No I dont supose so.But I would like some tea,thank you." said the man with the blueish green        
suitecase with yellow curtain fringes and musty orangeish green caseing.

  Bill was the man’s name, but his friends called him Iocaste.He was sitting in the house of a [...]

So here I am still in Alaska, waking up and sitting up in bed with this always-crashing company-issue dialup laptop trying to find yet another story for SciScoop, and while flipping through TV channels for background noise I come across a GREAT open forum program on C-SPAN2 Book TV.  Steven Pinker is hosting a talk [...]

Nearly a year ago, SciScoop reported on the status of “The Eyes of Nye,” the new show that Bill Nye developed in 2003. Bill Nye’s children’s TV show, “Bill Nye The Science Guy” ran from 1992 to 1998, and the hundred programs on topics from dinosaurs to momentum are still fascinating children today. Now there’s [...]

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