Clara sometimes asks me if I dream. “Course I dream”. I tell her. ”Everybody dreams”. ”But what do you dream about?“ she’ll ask. ”The same thing everybody dreams about.“ I tell her. ”I dream about where I’m going.“ She always laughs at that. ”But you’re not going anywhere - you’re just wandering about.“ That’s not true. Not any more. I have a new destination. My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone’s. It’s taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I’m going, where I’ve always been going.
Hello Whovians. Sometimes we look in the mirror and wonder…What exactly are Adipose? What are we really made of? What’s with that single tooth and how do we do that whole turning fat into more adipose thing? Also, why are we SO CUTE?
Our friends at Harper Collins heard our confusion and it turns out they have a new book that may answer some of our questions (and many more) called The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who. This book mixes science with Doctor Who by combining 15 original stories with commentary from leading scientists such as Richard Dawkins, and major science fiction writers such as Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, and Peter F. Hamilton.
And guess what? We have 10 copies to give away to anyone else who has also been wondering what an Adipose’s body composition is. All you have to do is explain a part of the Doctor Who universe through science. Why are Adipose squishy? How does the sonic screwdriver work? What happens to the Doctor’s body when he regenerates? No one knows the real answer to these things so we want to hear your explanations, no matter how factual or fictional they are.
You can make a text post, edit a photo together in photoshop, record yourself talking about it (or anything you like, really) explaining your Doctor Who science, then post it using the hashtag #ScienceofDW.
(Yes, of course you can draw a picture!)
We’ll choose 10 winners at random after the deadline of June 19th, 2015, so you have plenty of time to get those gears turning. Have fun!
(P.S., we’re so so sorry to people outside of the Fifty States, but this giveaway is only open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia.) BBC America’s full terms and conditions can be found here.)
The sonic screw driver is actually a psionic, as in psychic ability, probe that seems to do anything one can think of with tools through sound waves causing the atoms to speed up or slow down and alter, as needed, to get the required effect. I do not entirely understand why it does not work on wood other than the Doctor himself has a mental issue with wood, which would act as a mental block preventing him from actually using the sonic probe on wood.
Hello! My wonderful boyfriend bought me tardis long socks and I'm wondering, is that a good enough reason for ME to propose to him? It's seems good enough for me but what's your opinion because they're just awesome
The Tardis is quite literally running out of time in this sinister Christmas card of a design by Stuart Manning…
"The title for this episode provided an idea almost immediately," says Stuart. "The Tardis trapped in the hourglass is a little nod to the Radio Times Doctor Who Christmas cover from 2005. The typography owes a debt to 1960s cocktail-era design, drawing on Christmas cards from the time. I wanted it to look a bit like an old Christmas card – pleasant at first glance, but more sinister when you look more closely…” [x]
I have recurrent depression and its especially bad for me to stay alone at home, even during remission. My place is crazy messy although when I go out I look ok. Do you have the same problem?
Yessss, have done! I’ve spent long periods of time having to wade through the sea of shite that was my floor, and if I’m low it could take a whole week just to mustard enough energy to clean one bit of one area of one room. I’ve stood staring at a sink full of washing up unable to start because my brain has been so twatted that looking at dried up old cereal fused to a bowl made me cry. Illness is bollocks. Keeping on top of things is a monumental effort. And I think tidying/cleaning is one of those things that becomes out of reach or seemingly pointless when you are pouring what little energy and motivation you do have into scrabbling around trying to remain in one piece.
It’s not unusual and you’re not alone. There are worse things than mess and it does get sorted. Look after you!