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On Doctor Who, David Tennant and Catherine Tate Are Literally Everything
If Doctor Who’s triumphant return in “The Star Beast” was a romp in Russell T. Davies’ hallmark style to prove that Doctor Who can really still feel like its recent past, then “Wild Blue Yonder” is a similarly triumphant attempt to prove that Doctor Who can still be weird, chilling, and inventive as it ever…
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Maths Book Sells For Record $5 Million (Or The Price Of Like Two University Textbooks)
The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica was sold for $US3.7 million ($5 million) at Christie earlier this week, becoming the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction — [insert joke about outrageous university textbook prices]. Albert Einstein described Newton’s seminal 1687 work as “perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it…