Doctor Who drowns Dalek in possibly epic battle

Apparently, The Doctor has been having a bit of Dalek trouble recently, and decided to drown one in a pond in the UK.
Sales executive Marc Oakland was pushing a rake around the bed of the shallow pool when he found the object with its distinctive eye stalk.
So speculation time! What sort of adventure [...]

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New Who needs haircut

BBC reports that Matt Smith has been named as the new Doctor Who, the Eleventh Doctor. Smith is the youngest actor ever to take on the role.
I await his first appearance but hope to G_d he gets a good haircut before stepping into Tennants Chucks.
[Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm]

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Doctor Who forgets mini Swiss watch at archaeology dig

Incredibly careless of him, I guess, but let this be a lesson to all time travelers. Don’t leave your possessions lying around when visiting the past! So heed this tale of caution: a group of Chinese archaeologists are in a state of intense confusion after discovering a ring in the shape of a Swiss watch [...]

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Doctor Who news: Name of the new Doctor accidentally revealed?

So it appears that certain suspicions may have been confirmed with regards to the identity of the new Doctor. The oops was revealed by Phillip Rhys in an interview. I’m not going to run any spoilers, so if you want to know, you can watch the video clip.
[Link: io9.com - And [...]

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More Doctor Who news: New Doctor NOT Paterson Joesph, John Simm or James Sesbitt

Sci-fi blog io9.com has an article that details the reasons behind Tennant’s departure from this brilliant series:
So was David Tennant’s leaving the show all down to his need to move on? A now or never thing? Not quite. He had been in negotiations with the BBC for a fifth, even a sixth full series, but [...]

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New Doctor to be female?

According to this article in the Daily Fail..err Daily Mail, there’s talk of the next Doctor being female.
Very Interesting, I say.
Then they go on to say Billie Piper may be candidate of choice.
Hell no, I say.
I have nothing against a female doctor, in fact I’m very intrigued by the possibility, but [...]

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David Tennant resigns from Doctor Who

It’s official. The BBC, Guardian, and Gallifrey One all confirm that David Tennant has announced, he will quit Doctor Who at the end of 2009, following the four specials planned for the year.
I think I need a hug.
[ Link: BBC News report ]
[ Link: Gallifrey One report ]
[ Link: Io9.com report ]

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Today’s insanity: How to decipher alien languages (for real!)

Dr John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University believes that he might have a solution for humanity should we ever encounter an alien species that doesn’t possess
a) Babel fish,b) a TARDIS,c) telepathy, ord) C-3PO.
I think the article explains it all better than I ever could:
…John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University believes he has come up [...]

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Is this the new face of Doctor Who?

David Tennant, who plays the current 10th Doctor in the brilliant series, Doctor Who, may be replaced come 2011 by Paterson Joseph. What makes this interesting is that he’ll be playing the first non-white Doctor. Mind you, at this point it’s still rumour (remember to keep your pinches of salt handy, people!), but I’ll definitely [...]

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Today’s insanity: human electricity! (well, almost)

Scientists have found a way to create bio-batteries, similar to the electrocytic cells of electric eels and other such electric animals. The idea behind this is to power artificial limbs and internal machinery, but of course, the idea could be taken a step further and into the creation of “wetware”, or cybernetic implants. Mind you, [...]

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