Tomasz Winnicki
June 24th, 2006, 05:03 PM
Hello,
This week on the season finale of Quirks & Quarks:
"Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley."
History hasn’t been kind to William Shockley. One of the great scientific
geniuses of the 20th century, Shockley is mostly forgotten today - despite the fact that he ushered in the electronic age, changed the course of World War Two and single-handedly founded Silicon Valley. And he picked up a Nobel Prize along the way, for his invention of the transistor. He’d probably be a household name now, had he not been a radical proponent of racist eugenics. Shockley suggested people with low IQ should be sterilized, and he said many of those people were poor lacks.
Plus - a jellyfish that stings with the speed of a bullet.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page at cbc.ca/quirks.
Bob McDonald
Host
The CBC Quirks & Quarks show is just about the only one I can stand to listen to. They can't bullshit or lie about science, at least not too much.
This week on the season finale of Quirks & Quarks:
"Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley."
History hasn’t been kind to William Shockley. One of the great scientific
geniuses of the 20th century, Shockley is mostly forgotten today - despite the fact that he ushered in the electronic age, changed the course of World War Two and single-handedly founded Silicon Valley. And he picked up a Nobel Prize along the way, for his invention of the transistor. He’d probably be a household name now, had he not been a radical proponent of racist eugenics. Shockley suggested people with low IQ should be sterilized, and he said many of those people were poor lacks.
Plus - a jellyfish that stings with the speed of a bullet.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page at cbc.ca/quirks.
Bob McDonald
Host
The CBC Quirks & Quarks show is just about the only one I can stand to listen to. They can't bullshit or lie about science, at least not too much.