On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:24:30 +0100, Rodney Blackall
 wrote:

>...
>Treat the public as intelligent and explain difficult terms and
>they will learn.
>...

I think that was true up to about twenty years ago but I'm not sure that
it's true today. My impression is that we've moved into a short
attention span culture where everything has to be immediate or it's
ignored. Current television science documentaries are a perfect
illustration of this, with the notable exceptions, and once the culture
is in this position it's going to be extremely difficult to get out of
it. It's much easier going downhill than it is up.

My comment to Tudor, 'Are they bovvered', should really have been 'Can
they be bovvered'. I don't think they can.

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