- I ripped these photos of the TV. In a series about geology Prof Ian Stewart, ina cavern in a mine in Northern mexico where high humidity has caused enourmous mica crystals to form.

- Scientific chaos is when a system represented by an equation seems to be totally unpredictable i.e. If you graphed it, it would be all over the place, as opposed to most systems which produce nice curves or lines so we can easily predict the next point.

- I wonder if some data points thought anomylous in the past and so thrown might have been part of a chaotic system.

- Radio talked a website talked about super injunctions : wikileaks and said that site lists dozens of cases which are kept out of UK newspapers. When I checked the website it said is is closed until it raises funds ...seems to me someone has been successful in closing this loophole ... it turns out some secrets are best kept secret : if the site listed Chinese dissidents then the secret police would round up those people the next day.

- I have a trick that I tend to watch recorded TV at double speed, but I am still have difficulty catching up.
- 2. Queues of TV presenters at remote Locations : The number of these programmes featuring a celebrity travelling around Britain or the world is increasing so rapidly that soon they will inevitably run into each other. Already they are beginning to overlap there have been 3 programmes featuring walking over the dangerous Morecombe Sands. And I've seen the Megahalaya Root Bridges twice and teh history of Timbuktu twice.
- David Dimbleby has a Series called the Sevens Ages of Britain, but Bettany Hughs had a series of the same title a couple of years ago

- UK history has been featured in the Andrew Marr Series, the Simon Schaffer series and now the David Dimbleby series and there is a series about British Naval history (Dan Snow)
- David Dimberly also did a series about Russia which overlapped with an Art History of Russia which also went into Russian History
- There are series about Chemistry, Geology (Iain Stewart) , Time As well as other science oneoffs like Aristotle, and Aging
- Traveling around Britain : Portillo's great British railway journeys often overlaps with Coast and of course with Pete Watermans programs about trains but they also overlap with Country Tracks and Country file, Martin Clunes Islands of Britain
- There are some good programmes hidden away on Quest (a Discovery Networks channel) . Mythbusters is there, but it's too slow I'd rather read the book sometime. But there is a series on Industry presented by the Fast Show guy Mark Williams (Industrial Revelations).

- Very professionally made TV The programmes seem to have huge budgets as the presenter if often flown across the world for a segment which lasts less than a minute, also helicopters are regularly used . The production standards seem to be very high: the pictures are great, and the history and science well researched and accurate.

- They are very educational, but bad science creeps in, which is bad cos was it's learnt it's difficult to unlearn e.g. Palin at the Equator showing that water goes down the plughole one way and then a different way a few steps across the equator ... this is a trick . (In reality other things like the way you hold the bowl effect the direction much more strongly than the Equator)

- Where are the women presenters ? 90% of the presenters seem to be men. Female celebrities either don't like the job :Victoria Wood clearly didn't like her train journey prog another featured an actress, but it was crap cos she got overwhelmed by everything and hugged avry monk. There are a few good women scientist presenters and one could argue that every TV prog about kids is presented by women, and everything about technology by men.

- I still find TV is not as good as radio.