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Watch a 1966 interview with Sydney Newman, the creator of Doctor ...
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1 day ago - Did you know that Doctor Who was created by a Canadian? Sydney Newman was a Canadian film and television producer who, with C. E. ...
Of course you'll have to stop watching it now.
Bollocks.
Newman was tasked with coming up with an idea for a new BBC programme to bridge the gap between the sports showcase Grandstand and pop music programme Juke Box Jury on Saturday evenings.
He decided it should be a sci-fi show.
However, most of the work in creating Doctor Who was done by Donald Wilson and C.E. Webber, and it was a Cambridgeshire man named Rex Tucker, a TV director, who came up with the name Doctor Who.
Tucker was originally assigned to direct the first Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child, but it didn't work out and instead the job was given to Waris Hussein. Tucker did go on to direct the 1966 Doctor Who episode The Gunfighters, set in 19th Century America in the days leading up to the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Here's something else I watched a few days ago.
Doctor Who and the Royal Institution are two great British institutions and, to celebrate Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, the two recently came together to give us a one-off science show presented by Professor Brian Cox, who explains the science behind Doctor Who.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the day, including Henry Cavendish, for "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and improvements; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life." Since its founding it has been based at 21 Albemarle Street in London's Mayfair.
Every year at Christmas since 1825, with the exception of 1939-1942 when people were more concerned with dodging parachute mines, the Royal Institution has hosted the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday gave a total of nineteen Christmas Lectures in all and many other great scientists have also given the Lectures. Since 1966 the Royal Society Christmas Lectures, given in front of young audiences in its lecture hall at 21 Albemarle Street, have been broadcast on the television.
Now, to celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who, University of Manchester physicist, TV presenter and former keyboard player in the pop band D:Ream (famous for their 1993 hit Things Can Only Get Better) Professor Brian Cox has given a televised lecture at the Royal Institution, in the style of the annual Christmas Lectures, in front of an audience of celebrities and members of the public in which he explains the science of the Timelord.
Brian, a Doctor Who fan, takes us on a journey into the wonderful universe of the Doctor, from the lecture hall of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Drawing on the latest theories as well as 200 years of scientific discoveries and the genius of Einstein, Brian tries to answer the classic questions raised by the Doctor - can you really travel in time? Does extra-terrestrial life exist in our galaxy? And how do you build something as fantastical as the TARDIS?
Watch the whole of the episode here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hybnv/The_Science_of_Doctor_Who/
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just browsing tonight - came across this little gem from Brooklyn:
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Watched The Conjuring last night. Pretty creepy movie! I liked it.
Now I am watching Hawaii 5-0 Season 1 (the reboot series).
Now I am watching Hawaii 5-0 Season 1 (the reboot series).
Watched The Conjuring last night. Pretty creepy movie! I liked it.
Told you it was good!!! What did you think of Annabelle? Lol
Walter, you should really try to avoid spoilers like that.
Creepy. Needed more I thought.
I"m on my IPad and it's difficult to post a link but I'll send you a picture of the real doll. Lol.
Episode 2 of the two-part BBC Four documentary Light and Dark, presented by University of Surrey theoretical physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, was on last night, and its topic was Dark. It followed on from last week's Episode 1, which was was about Light.
Episode 2 - Dark: Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we went from thinking we were close to a complete understanding of the universe to realising we had seen almost none of it
Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we went from thinking we were close to a complete understanding of the universe to realising we had seen almost none of it. Today, our best estimate is that more than 99 per cent of the cosmos is hidden in the dark, invisible to our telescopes and beyond our comprehension.
The first hints that there might be more out there than meets the eye emerged from the gloom in 1846 with the discovery of the planet Neptune. It was hard to find, because at four billion kilometres from the sun there was precious little light to illuminate it and, like 89 per cent of all the atoms in the universe, it gives off almost no light.
In the middle of the 20th century scientists discovered something even stranger - dark matter - stuff that wasn't just unseen, it was fundamentally un-seeable. In fact, to explain how galaxies are held together and how they formed in the first place, there needed to be four times as much dark matter as there was normal atomic matter.
In the late 1990s scientists trying to measure precisely how much dark matter there was in the universe discovered something even more elusive out there - dark energy, a mysterious new force driving the universe apart that is thought to make up a colossal 73 per cent of it.
Finally, Jim explores the quest to uncover the nature of dark energy and to see dark matter pull the first stars and galaxies together, a quest that involves peering into the darkest period in the cosmos's past.
Watch the whole of the episode on BBC iPlayer: BBC iPlayer - Light and Dark: Dark
Episode 2 - Dark: Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we went from thinking we were close to a complete understanding of the universe to realising we had seen almost none of it
Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we went from thinking we were close to a complete understanding of the universe to realising we had seen almost none of it. Today, our best estimate is that more than 99 per cent of the cosmos is hidden in the dark, invisible to our telescopes and beyond our comprehension.
The first hints that there might be more out there than meets the eye emerged from the gloom in 1846 with the discovery of the planet Neptune. It was hard to find, because at four billion kilometres from the sun there was precious little light to illuminate it and, like 89 per cent of all the atoms in the universe, it gives off almost no light.
In the middle of the 20th century scientists discovered something even stranger - dark matter - stuff that wasn't just unseen, it was fundamentally un-seeable. In fact, to explain how galaxies are held together and how they formed in the first place, there needed to be four times as much dark matter as there was normal atomic matter.
In the late 1990s scientists trying to measure precisely how much dark matter there was in the universe discovered something even more elusive out there - dark energy, a mysterious new force driving the universe apart that is thought to make up a colossal 73 per cent of it.
Finally, Jim explores the quest to uncover the nature of dark energy and to see dark matter pull the first stars and galaxies together, a quest that involves peering into the darkest period in the cosmos's past.
Watch the whole of the episode on BBC iPlayer: BBC iPlayer - Light and Dark: Dark
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Here is a trailer to the Rothschild Bible in living color.
Bible Secrets Revealed Promo Video - YouTube
3 full issues out 1/2 way through the 1st one I had to shut it down as there were 5 or more major errors, 50 if you tear it apart like I did. Boils down to one thing being able to save you from having an unhappy ending, don't get sucked into any doctrine that differs from the original one. Normal Friday night, do more but the day just seems to get busier.
1Co:15:32:
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantageth it me,
if the dead rise not?
let us eat and drink;
for to morrow we die.
The above is true so ......... coming to a theater near you soon. The climax is supposed to be better the closer you are to ground zero, if you trust the Books version that is. It leaves it open for listening to music instead.
Bible Secrets Revealed Promo Video - YouTube
3 full issues out 1/2 way through the 1st one I had to shut it down as there were 5 or more major errors, 50 if you tear it apart like I did. Boils down to one thing being able to save you from having an unhappy ending, don't get sucked into any doctrine that differs from the original one. Normal Friday night, do more but the day just seems to get busier.
1Co:15:32:
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantageth it me,
if the dead rise not?
let us eat and drink;
for to morrow we die.
The above is true so ......... coming to a theater near you soon. The climax is supposed to be better the closer you are to ground zero, if you trust the Books version that is. It leaves it open for listening to music instead.
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Update on the cruising the web, ...... GB might be gone as I made about 10 posts (religion part on David I. ..., still ...Muslims are usually pretty chatty) not one has gone down the list. So spooky I had to leave even though I thought it was quite funny actually. (and it wears off and there goes a night of 'restful sleep'.