Ben Paynter’s Wired Magazine story (January, 2024), The Meteor Farmer, has been adapted for the pilot episode of WIRED SCIENCE.
WIRED SCIENCE, a one-hour primetime program that translates WIRED Magazine’s award-winning journalism into a fast-paced television show, will debut nationally on PBS on Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. EST. (Check local listings.) A co-production of KCET/Los Angeles, the West Coast flagship station of PBS, and WIRED, the pre-eminent science and technology magazine, WIRED SCIENCE brings WIRED Magazine’s cutting edge vision, stylish design, and irreverent attitude to the screen with breakout ideas, recent discoveries, and the latest innovations.
The pilot episode takes the viewer into the world of meteorite hunters, where space, commerce, and art intersect, travels to Yellowstone National Park to harvest viruses which may hold the key to a technology revolution, and dives underwater to find NEEMO, NASA’s extreme astronaut training program. Viewers will meet rocket-belt inventors, stem cell explorers, and the developer of an electric car that goes zero-to-60 in under four seconds. As a series, WIRED SCIENCE will span the globe to uncover novel developments in biomedicine, space exploration, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, robotics, and military technology.
You can watch a streaming video presentation of each segment at www.pbs.org *(including Ben’s meteorite story, naturally!)
Wow, Frank! That’s so cool! You must be on tenterhooks, ready to watch the show! Congratulations — and to Ben, of course…
Hmm, I don’t have cable/ TV, but maybe I can catch the streaming version on the internet… Actually, it’s already up (just checked)!
Ben Paynter’s Wired Magazine story
Excellent. And if Ben needs to talk to someone who works for ‘the’ space elevator company you can point him in my direction.
the apple, the tree, and not falling far come to mind.
Congrats to Frank and his amazing Genes! And Jeans! and SON BEN!
And congrats to Yule for using the word that always gets me jazzed – tenterhooks – because i always thought it was tender hooks until I was like 35 and now when anyone uses it, i get excited.
so now i’m excited about ben and excited about frank and excited about yule’s use of tenterhooks.
It’s a good day!
Thanks for the news, frank!! TELL BEN YAY!