From GM Debbie Myers: Welcome to the SCIENCE Online Think Tank

Greetings, InSCIders.

We just wrapped up our annual Science Offsite/Onsite Its one of my favorite things we do all year. For two days we gather the teams from programming, development, marketing, press, business, social and digital to think about the next big goals and ideas for the network. There were forty of us and we include everyone. All ideas for genres, shows, partnerships, topics and people we would like to see on the network go up on the wall (see photo) and we narrow it down from there and start digging in to create the shows and specials you'll be seeing in the future. Some genre bending ideas came out of this workshop that we hope you will like.

I'd love to try an experiment and take this one step further. Welcome to our Onsite/Offsite/ Online think tank. Join us and let me know what the questions are you'd like us to tackle? Who do you want to see on air? What topics or genres should we add. What's the interactive experience you want?

Thanks everyone. Keep the feedback coming!
Debbie

PS. We call it the Offsite/Onsite because instead of a fancy retreat, we locked ourselves away in a room on the tenth floor of the Discovery Building and made it feel like we were out of the office. Good times but without the swimming pool.

Comments

[Robert]

I'd like to see a collaboration with livescience.com, lifeslittlemysteries.com, and their sister sites to create something like an "How it's made" hodgepodge of cool scientific facts and questions posed regularly on those sites, but rarely tackled on science channel.
4 topics, 10 minutes each topic, hour long program with commercials. With attention spans of the average viewer, this is a hit out of the park.

[Kim Birkhimer]

It would be great to see a program on Neurofeedback. In particular using a system called BrainPaint developed by Bill Scott at BrainPaint, Inc. See BrainPaint.com for more info. BrainPaint and Bill Scott have just been named one of ten "Health Care Transformers"
at the recent SXSW conference in Austin, TX.

[Chris gomersall]

More investigation into the natural gas extraction tech called frakking.

[Mario Chavez]

While I love How It's Made, How Do They Do it and marathons like that, here's my take:

Create a series about the science of language: language acquisition, how the brain works when it translates, when it interprets into other languages; a simplified, user-friendly version of Chomskyan thought; the fun of learning languages at an early age (or later); visual language, etc.

Please make the science side of everyday things impactful, fascinating, gripping, inescapable.

[Chris LS]

I would love a show about everyday science - ways that we all experience science in our lives, like in our houses, in the kitchen, in the yard, etc. Also would be great if it included segments on fun little science experiments/tricks that parents & kids could do together at home.

[Kamal Bassma]

I'd like to see a show that goes behind the science of DIY things. I think it'd be pretty sweet.

[Steve Connors]

Hi -
I would love to see a daily science news program - a half hour of what is new in the world of science today. Or at least an hour once a week, similar to what Science News magazine does in their weekly publication.

[Robert]

I would like to see the Leatherman multitool factory, Craftsman tool Company & Ruger Firearms Company.

[Joyce Hathaway]

I always want to more about the subject. ie. WHO invented the machine which can climb vertical walls? WHO is the architect who envisioned the olympic pool in London? Are the workers on some of the construction sites especially chosen? Some seem to have a remarkable grasp of math. I think much of the information could be integrated into math and science classes. It might help increase enrollment in engineering programs.

[will]

Math & Science Pioneers who brave established science dis-interest, resistance and the lack of understanding make facinating stories. People like Benoit Mandelbrot with fractal theory, Tesla and Einstein and Leonard Susskind with string & M Theory. A history of math and science pioneers would attract educated and professional people.

[Leanne Hawk]

Also would be great if it included segments on fun little science experiments/tricks that parents & kids could do together at home.

[Latisha Schulz]

nice post.

[Evangelin]

What topics or genres should we add. What's the interactive experience you want?