Some quick meta-fictional notes on my continued obsession with the world of Nathan Barley… Brooker began writing a TV review column entitled “Screen Burn” for The Guardian newspaper’s Saturday entertainment supplement The Guide in 2000, a role he continued through to October 2010. In the final column[4], he noted how increasingly difficult he found it […]
Read more "Geek Pie"Read moreOnce upon a time, the Fab Four—having slain the pop charts—decided to set their sights on the Dark Lord Sauron by making a Lord of the Rings feature, starring themselves. One man dared stand in their way: J.R.R. Tolkien.
According to Peter Jackson, who knows a little something about making Lord of the Rings movies, John Lennon was the Beatle most keen on LOTR back in the ‘60s—and he wanted to play Gollum, while Paul McCartney would play Frodo, Ringo Starr would take on Sam and George Harrison would beard it up for Gandalf. And he approached a pre-2001 Stanley Kubrick to direct.
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From Science Daily:
Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have reached an early, but important, milestone in the quest…
First human liver grown in lab
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 