Talk:Season 8/@comment-175.156.224.14-20150221134504

Science has got some airtime back (finally), which is good.

I'd like to see them focus on Howard and his work some time, because engineering is a very challenging profession. So if he breezes through it, then the public typically think he is not challenged enough, and if he struggles with a problem, then the public would think he's not good enough. There's a lot of person-on-person dynamics they could tap into. Truth would be, what the public thinks is impressive, like the robot arm, is actually pretty simple. And what the public thinks is very easy, like counting and number systems programming, may be difficult because an unsuitable platform is used. The most interesting parts of engineering happens at the frontier. Like if you mix mechanical with chemical, or with biology.

Salzberg is a great consultant as a physicist. But physicists face a different kind of challenge.

I think there's a great deal of untapped material for this show yet.