Comments on: RIP Mr. Wizard 1917-2007

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:51:36 +0000

Not bad for a drama major. He was also in B-24s in Italy, like my Dad.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:39:41 +0000

Sigh. The good die young. He deserved to live another hundred years for the influence he had on all of us when we were kids.

R.I.P., Mr. Herbert; you really were a wizard at teaching science.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:05:34 +0000

These days we don’t have milk bottles or one gallon cans.

Thing was, you could duplicate the experiments. You could do it yourself and see that it worked. Imagination is one of the things that is missing from kids toys these days. Too much realism and not enough fantasy. The kids are required to add their own personality and creativity to play, everything is scripted.

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:54:54 +0000

I still remember being fascinated by science from watching his shows and I can still remember some of the simple but amazing experiments. Remember the demonstrations of air pressure using a hard boiled egg and a milk bottle or the even more impressive one using a 1 gallon metal can by evacuating it using steam and then screwing the lid on and watching atmospheric pressure crush the can as the vapor cooled inside. Neat stuff. Sure left an impression on me.