Alberto Angela picks up his father Piero's baton: soon to come Noos, heir to SuperQuark

Alberto Angela is ready to pick up the baton from his father Piero with his own new science popularization program that will not be called SuperQuark, but Noos. This is the name chosen by the well-known paleontologist and science popularizer: he announced it himself on his social profiles.

“Dear friends, a few weeks ago, I posted a photo of a switch with the words ’keep on maximum 9 minutes,’ promising you the beginning of a new journey,” the post reads. "I then told you about my decision to pick up the torch of science popularization left lit by my father with his programs and announced the beginning of this new adventure. Now it only remains to reveal to you the title of the new program. As I anticipated, it will not be called SuperQuark, that is Piero’s program and it will remain his forever. So I thought about what would be the most suitable name, and the solution came to me while fondly remembering a detail of the program Viaggio nel Cosmo, which together with my father we made in 1998. In that program, my father traveled between planets and into the cosmos aboard a spaceship. That spaceship was called Noos. An archaic form of the word “nous,” this word in ancient Greek had different shades of meaning, but, basically, it meant, “intellect.” And so, traveling with intellect automatically leads to knowledge and knowing. That’s why we decided to call the new program Noos. It is a tribute to my father’s explorations in knowledge and, at the same time, it represents the continuation of the travels in the interstellar space of knowledge. That button you saw was used to turn on the interior lights of one of the model spaceships and space stations used in the studio filming of Journey to the Cosmos: for the technology of the time, it could not stay on for more than 9 minutes to avoid overloading the electrical system. Today, fortunately, technologies allow us to do much better and accomplish things that were then unthinkable. From that thought, it was a short step: the time has come to ’turn on’ again, but for ’well over nine minutes,’ the spacecraft switch for a long journey in science popularization. See you soon with Noos!"

Alberto Angela picks up his father Piero's baton: soon to come Noos, heir to SuperQuark

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