The Standard Deviants: Astronomy, Part 1 | 
| Actor: Standard Deviants
Studio: Cerebellum Corp
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 48587
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305214255
UPC: 631865003037
EAN: 9781886156296
ASIN: 6305214255
Release Date: April 4, 2000
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Condition: Part One
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Aimed at college students or accomplished high-school students, this award-winning series uses humor, whimsical graphics, and a lot of quick cuts to make academics accessible--even fun. And that's tough when you're talking about an hour and 39 minutes of astronomy-theory history (from the ancient Greeks through Newton), the law of gravity, properties of light, how telescopes work, makeup and rotations of the Earth and moon, and more laws than you can shake a stick at. The Standard Deviants staff of professors, a comedy-writing team, and 13 actors manage to find the right balance of goofiness (a doofus mechanic tries to explain nanometers) and hard-core information (explanations of parallax, retrograde, the Doppler effect--need we say more?). So if a Calvin Klein ad parody is your idea of a good way to teach the Kelvin scale, this tape belongs in your VCR. A study card with outline and formulas is included. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Description
It's a huge universe, and learning about it can seem like a huge task. Astronomy Part 1 can help. We'll meet some prominent ancient astronomers and discuss their theories of how the solar system works...or how they thought it worked! Then we'll take a look at Kepler's Laws, gravity, properties of light, the earth, the moon, and much more.
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Helping a child to study through the power of vision March 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All children do not learn and retain information using the same skills. We have one whose ability through the power of vision increases ten fold. She is artistic, gifted and a natural right brained individual, so given that she was having trouble with some courses, we obtained this award-winning series, where she learns while having fun. The course uses humor to lighten up the experience. It provides an hour and a half of astronomy, teaching from the ancient Greeks through Newton. Powerful learning takes place. The observer learns the law of gravity, the properties of light, and how telescopes work. Would highly recommend acquiring this DVD if you want to help any child learn by using the power of vision.
Useful for us Science Fiction writers, too! February 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really like the Deviants' series of videos...and I am not an undergrad anymore. I found this by accident in a table-load of markdowns, and got hooked. This one is a good introduction to the subject, at a fast pace, with corny, witty humor. In fact, almost Monty Python humor. It will help me alot since knowing key facts is vital to credible writing. Who would believe a story with careless mistakes? Imagine Star Wars with travel in miles instead of light years...or no space suits for humans to wear so they don't freeze to death outside the ship - perhaps they hold their breath and put on lots of Vaseline jelly? (not) What happens to your spaceship if you don't account for gravitation, escape velocities, or the radiation of a supernova? You lose the sense of reality that makes a good story. Pull up a recliner, have some popcorn, and enjoy the show :-) it's painless learning. Really. It woulda helped me in class, had I HAD an astronomy class. Wish I knew about the series sooner.
 for kids September 11, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thought I was getting a video to teach me about astronomy. Nope. I was getting something for kids. Sometimes they sounded like they were trying to be cool, to keep the little kids interested. Sometimes they sounded like they were teaching school. All in all it was pretty unwatchable. I got to the part where they said that Tycho Brahe died when his bladder exploded because he was waiting for the king to leave the room first, and then I had to shut it off. Apparently that story is nonsense, if another review on this site is to be believed. All in all, an annoying video.
 poorly researched May 21, 2004
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I borrowed this video from the library recently. I got to the part where they talked about Tycho Brahe & claimed his cause of death was his bladder exploding because he drank too much wine & wouldn't leave the room to relieve himself so as not to go against the custom of never leaving the room before the king. This sounded too weird to be true. After a quick online search I found sites saying mercury is the more likely cause of death. This has made me a little skeptical of how well the video was researched. I'm very disapointed that an educational video would state an urband legend as fact. The video is very informative but I had trouble getting past this and plan on asking some more experienced astronomers for other video suggestions.
 Superb March 5, 2000
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
I love the Standard Deviants. You have got to check this out! It is a very fun approach but you actually learn a lot also. The interactive features are very good.
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