About a decade ago I saw someone, it might have been Hank Green or someone in his genre, talk about how Captain Planet was counterproductive, treating the executives of energy companies etc. as inhuman monsters bent on destruction for the fun of it rather than people trying to do the difficult job of meeting the ever-increasing demand from the public at large for energy, food and material goods.

Turns out they're inhuman monsters bent on destruction for the fun of it.

I never noticed that!!

He was also an inspiration to me when I was a kid growing up watching Star Trek. He got to work on all the really cool stuff. Engineering basically solved every problem, and if they couldn't sickbay did.

But you don’t have to take my word for it

Same.

Next Generation is the closest my family got to a family TV show that wasn't the news but somehow, this moment is usually my first LeVar Burton thought.

This whole bit is so funny.

YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!

I can go twice as high

All butterflies are glorious

🎼Take a look, it's in a book....

I wouldn't mind a second one, love that for you

He wishes he was Lance Reddick.

Michael Dorn comes out of his trailer in Worf makeup, and says to the camera "Stand aside. I take large steps." which I'm still laughing at.

Reading Rainbow.... Part of CahLeFarNeahs Gahold. RIP Huell Howser too.

The variety of human experience never ceases to baffle me.

Give Octavia Butler's "Xenogenesis" a read. It's an allegory on slavery, race mixing, and the power dynamics of consent, but involving humans and aliens who are more powerful

This is the first I've heard of this book, I'm assuming it was written years ago prior to 'Melanotan 2' being a thing. It's a peptide which at high enough doses it can effectively transform the fairest skinned caucasian to a skin complexion to that of someone who is from Sub-Saharan Africa. The entire premise seems a little far fetched when there is a relatively simple solution available.

Im not just being a boomer when I say modern kids shows are literally flashing lights and sounds. They must focus group them the same way fancy feast makes cat food with zero regard for what it does to a kid... its entirely about retention and attention so the kids will watch it and get programmed by the ads.

He hosted the PBS kids' educational show Reading Rainbow starting in 1983, so anyone roughly 45 and younger likely grew up watching him talk about books and reading. He also had a big role in Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987-1994, which might have been the most watched Star Trek series, and which was basically a series of lessons in ethical decision-making.

Wish bone!!!!!!! That's how I learned about Odysseus.... but now that I think about it the dog banging the wife had real big sonic energy.

His shirt literally says "be anything", don't limit him!

Don't forget Mr. Wizard!

Alison Martin has a new career apparently.

(Ok, I don't know who she is, so I had to look it up)

Mr. Rogers would be very disappointed at the pedantry.

Even for posting on the internet...

Since OP is probably not going to address the typo, I'll say it's probably because they're from a country where "Rodgers" is more common than "Rogers". They're still wrong — names do not translate between English-speaking countries, even if they spell a word differently that is also a name. Sadly, the only person I can think of named Gray or Grey is Christian Grey, of Fifty Shades of Grey. Calling him "Christian Gray" or the book "Fifty Shades of Gray" just because you're an American is wrong. See also, Culture Club's Colour by Numbers album, which is not called "Color by Numbers" in the US.

We do localise and translate from other languages, though. Many anime, for example, are called something else in Japan. One of my favourite examples is Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, which literally translates to "The Town in Which Only I Am Missing," but is more commonly called "The Town Without Me". Outside Japan, it's called Erased. A simpler one is Shingeki no Kyojin, or "Giants Advance" or "Advance of the Titans", which, as you can guess, is called Attack on Titan in English. Then you have Boku no Hero Academia, which uses its literal translation, "My (young male speaker) Hero Academia". "Watashi no Hero Academia" would also translate to the same, but would imply they're college age/professional. "Ore no Hero Academia" would work if they were punks or delinquents — Boku, Watashi, and Ore are just pronouns that refer to social status, they all translate roughly to "Me" or "My" in English.

But again, names don't translate.

And a healthy dose of Writing Rainbow

it's in a PDF!

In many cultures this is: a dick move

Mr. Wizard, > Nye.

Not if the conversation is "deceased educators from your childhood".

Does he still regularly do like banned book drives and shit like that to help promote reading?

Still doing his part, even if he was “just an actor”