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| [VID]: Julius Sumner Miller at the Air Force Academy in 1973 |
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| eti:
Ever so enchanting, spectacularly amusing, endlessly entertaining! |
| edy:
Thanks for sharing. I always enjoyed his lectures... First learned about him watching "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" a show on Canadian TV back in the late 70's, early 80's. I grew up on this and probably was influenced somewhat as a kid by it. https://www.frightenstein.com/characters/professor.html |
| Brumby:
Around 1963, Miller was also one of the team of celebrity lecturers in the University of Sydney's pioneering "Summer School of Science", broadcast early in the morning during Australia's long summer holidays in January. Fellow presenters included Harry Messel and the astrophysicist James Watson..... Wiki I remember sitting in front of the TV watching these with great interest. One of the interesting bits was at the end of the presentation, the floor would be opened to questions from the students present. Some of these were pedestrian, but occasionally one of the questions appeared to stump the presenter - as the response they gave was "That's a good question." and the next question was taken. I also remember my parents were concerned that I wasn't putting in a full effort at school and they wrote to the Professor - and he sent back a response written in texta on the back of a flyer for one of his events. I'm not sure it inspired me to redouble my efforts - but it was cool. 8) It has to be somewhere - but I haven't seen it in decades. :( |
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