That is actually one of the weakest and tamest I remember.
Magnus Pike - the reason I'm a food scientist today.
Let me remaind you: optical illusion with "big" Bellamy and "little" Pyke in room, why chimeny breaks when falls, what is sound in finger cracking, can you break a glass with singers voice, why honey curves when falling...
In Glasgow, he was influenced strongly by J.N. Davidson, who wrote the first book 'Biochemistry of the nucleic acids', and John transferred to the biochemistry department, where in 1972 he graduated B.Sc.
During summer vacations, he worked in the research laboratories of Distillers Company Ltd, in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, working with the extrovert author and broadcaster (as well as research scientist), Dr MagnusPyke.
do you play croquet?" It emerged that DCL, with MagnusPyke in the team, were British croquet champions.
Currently freelance, I take photographs, write books, and present radio and television programmes.
In 1977 I worked as a researcher with MagnusPyke, and the first item I did was about why banana skins are slippery.
After Don’t Ask Me and Don’t Just Sit There (studio shows with MagnusPyke and David Bellamy) came Where There’s Life (with Miriam Stoppard and Rob Buckman), and Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World.
He's worked with a list of celebrities that takes in everyone from Michael jackson to MagnusPyke and, last year, managed to become Big In America marginally ahead of the "British Invasion." In fact, about the only thing he hasn't done yet is have a decent-sized British his.
For this Dolby made a video with the authentic mad scientistMagnusPyke and used his voice on the record.
It was only a minor hit here--Dolby reckons the appearance of Dr Pyke meant most people dismissed it as a "novelty record"--but really took off in America.
Pyke appears on the song, and the video, "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby, where he shouts "science" and provides other sound bites.
Pyke professes that there are alternative systems to that of the Western industrialized nations which could retain many of the benefits of science and technology, allow a reasonable standard of living, but still make room for the good life, many aspects of which were enjoyed by pre-industrialized societies.
Magnus you have a correct challenge, you get a point for that and there are 15 seconds for show stoppers starting now.
On this occasion it was MagnusPyke so he’s got three points at the end of that round and he’s equal in the lead with Kenneth Williams.
Magnus you have increased your lead at the end of that round with another point for a correct challenge as well as one for speaking as the whistle went.
Long before I was influenced by any of the great science writers, or indeed any of my physics teachers, it was television that got me interested in science.
It was thanks to TV boffins like James Burke, MagnusPyke and Carl Sagan that I became fascinated by everything from quarks to galaxies.
As a science writer I am supposed to extol the virtues of the written word against the supposed evils of television, but it is impossible for me to attack the medium that not only sparked my interest in science, but which also nurtured my writing skills.
It is in sharp contrast to the hectoring 'Must-I-go-through-this-again' tone of explanation to a wilfully slow pupil which characterises some politicians, e.g., Mrs Thatcher and MM Callaghan and Healey.
In the domain of science Patrick Moore and MagnusPyke are atavistic exceptions to highlight the norm.
The programme makers were seeking outside stimuli; Austin Mitchell was the compere; Rob Buckman and MagnusPyke were the experts who gave the answers.
Came across a book called 'Our Future: a look at life in 50 years time' by the now-deceased MagnusPyke.
Haven't read Pyke's book yet but it's disappointing that some of the engineering developments that I looked forward to as a wean haven't happened.
Routine space travel for non-specialists (as seen in '2001'), the lack of a real breakthrough in land travel, etc. Admittedly most of these fall within traditional mechanical engineering - the developments in ICT, biomedical engineering and genetics have been stunning.
