Monday, 26 March 2018

Rose

It was thirteen years ago today that Rose Tyler met a mysterious stranger...

Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Stephen Hawking's time travel party

Stephen Hawking held a party in 2009, but the public invitation went out the day after, inviting time travellers. He said none showed up... but why did they miss it?

To add another theory, obviously they knew to stay away because history records that they did...

Thursday, 8 March 2018

International Women's Day

Among other celebrations of International Women’s Day, Amelia Earhart is now available in Barbie format. Now to run Doctor Who adventures starring others in the range like Frida Kahlo (who has already appeared in DWM), Katherine Johnson (featured in an episode of Timeless), Ava DuVernay (director of A Wrinkle In Time), Olympic boxer Nicola Adams...

Friday, 26 January 2018

Wilder Penfield

A Google Doodle we didn’t get here: the 127th birthday of Wilder Penfield, Canadian immigrant neurosurgeon, famous for this work on mapping the brain and its sensory functions.

His method for treating epileptic seizure was made into a short film that kicked off “I smell burnt toast!” as shorthand for oncoming brain trauma and a fairly standard joke about the subject - I used it myself a couple weeks ago, because I did actually smell burning.

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

The Next Day addendum

DarkStarling came up with intriguing spins on several more of the titles here.