Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Guess who's back...

No, who, not Who. Pictures from filming show... well, adding the label would be a spoiler.

Monday, 7 October 2019

Thursday, 3 October 2019

German Reunification Day 2019

German Reunification Day - next year will be the 30th anniversary.

Always worth checking international Google Doodles

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Mission To The Unknown

A full remake of lost episode Mission To The Unknown, made by students, goes online on the Doctor Who Youtube channel next week for the anniversary of the original screening.

Thursday, 26 September 2019

Freema Agyeman is a doctor, again

New Amsterdam - the hospital show, not the 2008 immortal detective show - also has Janet Montgomery as the hardboiled head of the ER and Tyler Labine in the psychological department. Which would make a solid TARDIS lineup...

Saturday, 20 July 2019

Apollo 11

Tonight at 3.56 a.m. local time it will be fifty years since human beings walked on the Moon.

Google talked to Mike Collins for their front page animation. Even in this brief interview I learned something - the “barbecue roll” to control the temperature of the vessel as it was in constant sunlight through the voyage.

Media coverage included a BBC Stargazing special talking about what NASA plans to do next, including a test drive of a prototype Mars rover.

Also today, three travellers arrived at the International Space Station.

Look back, look forward, and look up.

Sunday, 7 July 2019

Friday, 28 June 2019

Pan Tadeusz

A Google Doodle today in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, here in and Iceland, for the 185th anniversary of the publication of Pan Tadeusz, an epic poem by Polish writer and activist.

Wikipedia
Independent news story

While we usually associate epic poems with myth and legends, Pan Tadeusz is historical fiction about the region during the Napoleonic war.

Thursday, 6 June 2019

Years And Years And Children Of Earth

As previously noted, Years And Years is an idea Russell T Davies has had a while, with Turn Left as a foretaste, but he also mentioned in The Writer’s Tale that it was nearly the end of Children of Earth...