> How many people saw that Nova? PBS session where
they handed ENGINEERING
 > undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires?  Many of the students
 > were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket. 
It's worrying that I could do this before I even went to primary school...
   Many of them
made a dead short across the battery, and then touched one of
 the bulb contacts to that. etc. 
 Wow, comedy for nerds.  I have to see that. 
 
Well, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
-tony