{"id":798,"date":"2009-10-08T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=798"},"modified":"2009-09-30T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T13:02:11","slug":"essential-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2009\/10\/08\/essential-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Viewing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have information thrown at us from so many angles. Whether it be online, through the newspaper or just on the television we&#8217;re spoiled for choice when it comes to finding a medium through which to consume information. My traditional choice is the Internet, using things such as RSS feeds and Twitter to gain access to the latest news. However when I don&#8217;t want to actively seek out information I turn to the good old fashioned visual media of television and over the years I&#8217;ve come across many programs that I believe everyone should watch for their captivating and inspiring messages.<\/p>\n<p>So here is a list of what I consider to be essential viewing from an educational perspective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carl Sagan&#8217;s Cosmos<\/li>\n<li>From Earth to the Moon: Signature Edition<\/li>\n<li>The Universe<\/li>\n<li>Planet Earth<\/li>\n<li>Mission to Mir (my first space documentary I can remember seeing. It was amazing on IMAX)<\/li>\n<li>When We Left Earth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are of course many other shows with science based content that I could reccomend but the above are shows that are solely dedicated to furthering the cause of science. I know my future children will hate me for forcing them to watch all of these <em>for their own good<\/em> but shows like these are timeless. Carl Sagan&#8217;s cosmos is itself nearly 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>P.S. <\/strong>Apologies for the short posts. I had dedicated more time to these last few however I ran short when it took longer to pack for the honeymoon than I thought ;)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have information thrown at us from so many angles. Whether it be online, through the newspaper or just on the television we&#8217;re spoiled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[631,629,371,630],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-essential","tag-program","tag-tv","tag-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-cS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}