{"id":1472,"date":"2012-03-06T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2012-03-06T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:02:53","slug":"more-frequent-flier-points-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/03\/06\/more-frequent-flier-points-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"More frequent flier points anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is drearily predictable, the BBC's much trailed new Earth science programme \u2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00xztbr\">Orbit<\/a>: Earth\u2019s Extraordinary Journey \u2013 <\/strong>turned out to be another excuse for collecting air miles and for presenters to have fun. \u00a0For once, however, Brian Cox missed the plane and it was a Humble &amp; Czerski double act who did all travelling. \u00a0I didn't watch it, fearing both its superficiality and my own blood pressure. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/9119770\/Orbit-Earths-Extraordinary-Journey-BBC-Two-review.html\">Reviews<\/a> confirmed the worst.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, however, for all the trivia and fun diversions, the film-makers had decided that the only way to really explain things such as the atmospheric jet stream was through swanky 3D computer models. And far too many of them. \u00a0As a result, Orbit quickly came to resemble the sort of film more commonly preceded by a geography teacher dimming the classroom lights before nipping out for a cigarette. \u00a0As if to channel this back-to-school motif, Humble at one point turned to the camera and asked in stern fashion whether we\u2019d been paying attention in physics class. \u00a0Thus by the time the credits rolled my main emotion was relief that we\u2019d not been set any homework for next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank goodness for radio where the pictures <em>are<\/em> always better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is drearily predictable, the BBC's much trailed new Earth science programme \u2013 Orbit: Earth\u2019s Extraordinary Journey \u2013 turned out to be another excuse for collecting air miles and for presenters to have fun. \u00a0For once, however, Brian Cox missed...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}