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In the July 26, 2007 issue of Nature, the scientific journal's editorial staff listed the episode among "The Top Ten science moments in The Simpsons". [ 16 ] "Lisa the Skeptic" was utilized in a Salt Lake City Episcopal Church Sunday School class in 2003, to stimulate a discussion among fourteen-year-olds about belief in angels, and the ...
Plate XIV. Brown was distressed by an increased public interest in spiritualism, [7] something which he deemed a "mental epidemic." [8] By offering a scientific explanation on the properties of light, color, and the structure of the eyes, [1] he states in the section "Popular and Scientific description" that the purpose in writing Spectropia was to bring forth "the extinction of the ...
The episode also reintroduces the TARDIS' habit of taking the Doctor to the wrong places, something that had not yet happened in the revived series. [1] Davies felt that it was important for an episode to be set in Cardiff as that is where the new series is produced, and wanted the story to be set in Victorian times and feature Charles Dickens ...
In 1892, a series of subjective observations by workers falling from scaffolds, soldiers who suffered injuries, climbers who had fallen from heights and other individuals who had come close to death such as in near drownings and accidents was reported by Albert Heim. This was also the first time the phenomenon was described as a clinical syndrome.
Season 1; 1 Pilot: September 10, 1993 2 Deep Throat: September 17, 1993 10 Fallen Angel: November 19, 1993 17 E.B.E. February 18, 1994 24 The Erlenmeyer Flask: May 13, 1994 Season 2; 1 Little Green Men: September 16, 1994 5 Duane Barry: October 14, 1994 6 Ascension: October 21, 1994 8 One Breath: November 11, 1994 DVD only 10 Red Museum ...
The episode was watched by 1.94 million viewers with a 0.9/3 share among adults aged 18 to 49. [1] This was a 12% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 1.73 million viewers; [ 2 ] but was a 23% decrease in viewership from the previous season premiere, which was watched by 2.50 million viewers. [ 3 ]
This is a reference to the third of British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's three laws, which was also referenced by the Seventh Doctor and his companion Ace in the episode "Battlefield," Captain Jack Harkness in the Torchwood episode "Immortal Sins," and to a degree by the Twelfth Doctor in the episode "The Girl Who Died." [1] [2] [3 ...
The 10 to 1 ratio was an estimate made in 1972; current estimates put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. [301] The total length of capillaries in the human body is not 100,000 km. That figure comes from a 1929 book by August Krogh, who used an unrealistically large model person and an inaccurately high density of capillaries.