how much do you think you are affected by watching TV? personally i like to pretend that i don't integrate things i see on TV into my 'likely to be true things' region of my brain. this means that i don't like watching TV news. but then this isn't true when i watch things like nova or myth busters; so my line of believablity seems to be smudging. i think that even when we deny it, TV affects us (that's why they have commercials, duh).
one example: people think real forensics is like CSI. check out this quick article from ACS.
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Interesting - I am sure I've been affected by tv. But only in a good way :).
On to what the article made me think of - one of my friends watched a show with her dad and one of the things the mentioned was running a gel (to seperate dna or rna or proteins - but of course they didn't say that - like any 'normal lab type person' would. The said the whole long string of words - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. woo hoo.
Other thing in the article that is cool is the picture - bacteria tests I recognize the tests with the circles it is testing anti-biotic resistance.
still even though it is far fetched it is useful, just remember dick tracy in the comics ala 50's with a two way radio with a picture screen the size of a wrist watch.... took a while to get there
re to janell: hahaha so the picture doesn't even have anything to do with the article? funny! or is there a reason that forensics would want to know something about anti-biotic resistance.... mmmm
re to mari: true, fiction does inspire reality. but i think that the best fiction inspiration comes when the fiction is portrayed as something in the future (not necessarily distant) for things that people don't know a lot about. it was easy for people in the 80's to see that a personal communicator wasn't available that was the size of a star trek tricorder. but it is really confusing to people to tell them about things that go on in forensics since they don't know what is normal in that setting. i'm thinking of how the judge had to tell jury pool that which k2h participated that this wasn't CSI.
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