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Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Tuesday, 8th March 2011
"Sir Patrick Moore, you rock" said the reader's letter on the 700th "Sky At Night" shown this evening.
Also on the programme: Professor Brian Cox and Doctor Brian "Isaac Newton" May. (true)
Then Gid plays the Mad Professor...
...what other erudite stars of rock are there?
Den Hegarty of Darts - not to be confused of course with Dan Haggerty from 'The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams' - now lectures in Psychology at Exeter College and with the Open University. Some will also remember him as a presenter on the final, post-Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry series of 'Tiswas' - the TV equivalent of The Clash Mark 2.
I read somewhere that Liam Gallagher's been teaching music at his kid's school.
There are some more examples of this.
I'll have to try to remember them.
Over to the rest of you in the meantime.
What about sound recorder extraordinaire Chris Watson who travelled that well worn Rock N Roll path from Cabaret Voltaire to Springwatch?
Professor Longhair
Dr Feelgood
We Are Scientists
Kim Wilde is such a gardening boffin that she allegedly knows what vitamin pills are good for us!
After the breakup of the Velvets, Sterling Morrison - who studied English at Syracuse University, alongside Lou Reed - pursued a career as an English teacher and completed a PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
I suppose she's written a book called "The Wilde Garden", or maybe "Orchids in America".
I had always believed the members of PhD to be most intelligent, rather than to have surnames beginning with P, H and D respectively. Well, they let me down again there.
Whether or not Doctor and the Medics were really MDs I do not see - but a second famous person who comes from Knotty Ash? Well, I know that's the place that's the best.
No, I believe Jim Diamond is now Regius Professor of History at Oxford University. Actually, I'm not really able to verify this.
Not rock'n'roll, but seriously funny and musical - Tom Lehrer was a maths lecturer at Harvard.
Go on Gid, play "I Hold Your Hand In Mine".....
No Gid on Sunday night.
Are all the Gid fans playing "guess the element" with Professor Brian Cox?
"And helium fusion creates..."
I'm going..."Carbon"?
forgot the oxygen.
Gid needs to ask for the budget to make the show in Brazil. Evidently, if you get bored of the number of protons in deuterium, you can always look at the pictures...
I know, I know.....it was just a general plea. If I'd wanted to hear it there and then I would've put the record on. Hang on, turntable's bust. Ok, a tape then....
Carbon? You can't create elements from other elements like that as far as I know. Unless I'm missing something?
Puzzled now.
As for making elements out of other elements, I think the alchemists spent a lot of time trying to do that by distilling urine (or something of the sort). Who knows, though? Maybe it will be possible some time in the future.
I suppose Tom Lehrer's " The Elements" would be an apt choice.
something something harvard - something not yet been discarvard...
to create elements out of other elements, all you need is to be within the realm of a dying sun... so that's Dead Can Dance right there...
...at least I think that's what Coxy said, but once again they faded him out in favour of some background music.
Dumbed Down? or will Gid fade a Peel Session out in return to deliver a theory on the Lanthanide Series?
, in reply to message 16.
Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Tuesday, 15th March 2011
...these are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard; there may be many others but they haven't been discarvard....
(shave and a haircut, etc....)
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