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New Symphony of Science: The Greatest Show on Earth

by Noemi Twigg
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New Symphony of Science: The Greatest Show on Earth

What is the greatest show on earth? Naturally, the answer would depend on what you think is great. If you like documentaries about nature, evolution, and the like, then you probably have watched more than your fair share of BBC documentaries. There is no arguing that the stuff that BBC produces is simply ace, especially if seen on a high def TV! You’ve also probably heard of the Symphony of Science, a project by John Boswell and some other guys. The project is beautiful in that it combines the learning of scientific concepts with music, which is a winning combination in my book. I think I discovered them early last Read more »

Fill Your Doctor Who Void With This Browser Game

by Robin Parrish
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Doctor Who: Worlds In Time

We’ve got the Christmas Special to look forward to on the 25th, but other than that, the wait for new Doctor Who is going to be a long one (new eps aren’t scheduled to premiere until Fall of 2012). BBC Digital feels our pain and has supplied Doctor Who: Worlds In Time, a free, browser-based game, to help ease the wait. Read more »

Was a Doctor Who MMO Inevitable?

by Robin Parrish
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Was a Doctor Who MMO Inevitable?

Yup, it’s true. The Time Lord is getting his own massively-multiplayer online game. Developer Three Rings, a company behind casual games like Puzzle Pirates (for Facebook), Corpse Craft (for iPad), and Bang! Howdy (a casual, browser-based MMO), is producing the game for BBC Worldwide, which will be a free-to-play online world when it launches sometime later this year. Doctor Who: Worlds in Time will let gamers enter the TARDIS and be assigned a challenge by the Doctor to help him fight some of his most infamous enemies. Worlds in Time is described as allowing players to “travel through time and space, explore new worlds, and encounter many alien races, both Read more »

Doctor Who Christmas Special Spotted In BBC Holiday Promo [Video]

by James Johnson
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Doctor Who Christmas Special Spotted In BBC Holiday Promo [Video]

The New Doctor Who Christmas Special looks awesome…Okay I’m not really sure if it looks awesome, since the new BBC fall and winter promo video only shows about 3 seconds of the special…but since it’s Doctor Who I’m going to make the claim that it’s awesome and if you don’t like that…tough. Watch the promo and you’ll catch the scene. Can you spot Michael Gambon? Yes that Gambon, as he asks Matthew Smith who he is and he responds “the ghost of Christmas past.” Also note that the part of the video clip where Smith is surrounded by Nazi flags is not part of Doctor Who, but a totally different Read more »