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| After my father retired, he and my mother purchased property in London, Kentucky, and moved there in 1985. As I was a teenager and still living at home, I moved with them. Over-the-air television reception was pretty poor, so we got cable television. I’d never had cable TV as I was growing up, so it was an interesting experience. Being a teenager, I loved stations like MTV and VH1, but I also remember really enjoying the nature and science channels, like The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, History Channel, and Animal Planet. It was great, because it was real science, even some hard science. It didn’t feel dumbed down. | After my father retired, he and my mother purchased property in London, Kentucky, and moved there in 1985. As I was a teenager and still living at home, I moved with them. Over-the-air television reception was pretty poor, so we got cable television. I’d never had cable TV as I was growing up, so it was an interesting experience. Being a teenager, I loved stations like MTV and VH1, but I also remember really enjoying the nature and science channels, like The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, History Channel, and Animal Planet. It was great, because it was real science, even some hard science. It didn’t feel dumbed down. | ||