Surviving by Their Wits

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Most reality-based television shows get low marks for educational merit -- unless you count Machiavellian lessons in backstabbing. One exception is Rough Science, produced by Britain's Open University.

The program plops down five scientists on a gorgeous desert island and challenges them to build cameras and other gadgets from scraps of found materials.

The BBC show,...

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