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elementarystan:

Beady Eye: Start Anew (Released June 10!)

The band hid this song in another song through backmasking, which is awesome tbh. Also, who knew Elementary could afford Liam Gallagher?

Am I the only one who hadn’t heard of backmasking before?

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doctorwho:

Matt Smith and David Tennant Behind the Scenes of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special!

Here it is. Matt and David discuss life as The Doctor!

Thanks to everyone who worked really hard to keep the secret a secret this past week.

(And big thanks to the Doctor Who Facebook Page for helping get this to us earlier than we thought we’d have it. Go follow them if you aren’t already.)

As always on Saturday/Doctor Who nights I’ll be disappearing from my dash since I don’t get to see the episode until Sunday morning.

But this is very nice - good to see David Tennant in his Doctor costume again.

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joehillsthrills:

oh good you brought me something to eat

Oh Joe, you bring us the best nightmare material.

(Source: 365daysofhorror)

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We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

-

Richard Feynman, born on May 11, 1918, on the role of scientific culture in modern society – timeless, remarkably timely read.

Pair with how ignorance drives science.

(via explore-blog)

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tookmyskull:

“God in Heaven! So they were dead, then, both of them - the great criminal and the immortal crime savant - deep down in the boiling depths, among the jagged rocks of Reichenbach. And Dr. Conan Doyle was free to turn his agile mind to worthier matters.

“He was amazed, he tells us, at the concern expressed by the public. ‘You brute!’ began one vigorous, tearful letter of remonstrance from a woman; and from all sides were heard the sounds of lamentation. It was as if a god had been destroyed by treachery. So children mourn, perhaps, when Santa Claus is murdered by their elders.”

~~ Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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a mind amazed: crossedwires:Watson & Holmes stage another fight!I go back and forth...

amindamazed:

sanguinarysanguinity:

amindamazed:

crossedwires:

Watson & Holmes stage another fight!

I go back and forth on this. Halfway through it, it occurred to me that it was faked (and another callback to episode 2!). Sherlock keeps glancing off to the side while he’s yelling at her, as if looking to see if they’re being observed. But…

THEY FIXED THE DYING DETECTIVE! That story, and what Holmes does to Watson in it (Holmes you fucking asshole you DON’T DO THAT TO WATSON a thousand apologies MY ASS), bugs me SO FUCKING MUCH.

In the big scheme of everything going on in the finale it was almost a throwaway? But I still had to pause the playback and cheer. Because this Holmes would never try to pull that shit on Watson.

What? I don’t know the originals, please explain what was fixed and what this says about the fight, pleeeeeease?

I remember the Granada version of “The Dying Detective” - I have a lazy habit of relying on Granada for canon references since they did tend to stick so closely to the original stories. But they did change a few things, which is why it’s lazy for me to trust that rather than going back to read the originals. But anyway…I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

Spoilers below…obviously…

In “The Dying Detective,” in order to catch a brilliant murderer Holmes fakes catching a disease that is slowly killing him. He tricks Mrs. Hudson and Watson into believing it’s real and then sends Watson to bring the murderer, an expert in such diseases, to him in a supposed last ditch attempt to save Holmes’s life. He then tells Watson to conceal himself in the room; the murder enters and Holmes writhes about in agony as if he’s dying; the murder gloats and confesses to the original murder and to “killing” Holmes. Having gotten his confession, Holmes reveals the trick, out pops Watson as witness to the confession, and up come the police from their hiding places outside to close the net in the sting.

And I think I’m missing something, before all that - doesn’t Holmes pick a fight with Watson before he sets up the “dying” part of his plan? Perhaps to get Watson out of the way long enough to lay the groundwork for it?

I hadn’t made the connection between “The Dying Detective” and “The Heroine,” but I think you’re right - the show writers are obviously riffing off that original story.

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amindamazed:

sanguinarysanguinity:

I admit, I’ve never been able to follow your verbal descriptions of the floor plan, and I’m forever getting mentally turned around in there. I’m waiting for you to spend the hiatus building a little reference website, complete with corroborating screencaps, demonstrating which room is what and their relationship to each other.

I can’t do that this month but I can’t stand you not knowing, so maybe this will do in a pinch, regarding just the kitchen and Sherlock’s room/the room where Irene stayed in the brownstone (and I hope there’s some reference next season to the extensive search they did to be sure all all the hidden surveillance stuff she must have installed was removed).

in the gifset you rebloged after this one, the last image is of Joan leaning against the door between the kitchen and Sherlock’s room. Sherlock is sitting on a chair in that room.

Here’s Sherlock sitting on the couch in the room going on about the sex; you can see the french doors on the back wall that Irene’s bed is against in the finale. Watson is sitting on a box next to the open french doors between his room and the kitchen.

Here’s another view across the kitchen with his room in the background, as he talks about how Clyde is magnificent.

Here’s a view of the kitchen from inside the room.

In the finale:

above, you can see the stairs to the main floor behind Joan, and the kitchen behind Sherlock.

Here’s Watson just after closing the doors (the ones Sherlock is in front of in the first image).

And here, from Possibility Two, is the same room now containing free bee: you can see the whatever that is piece of furniture against the wall, books & a lamp on it in the finale image above; covered in sweaters below:

Watson is standing in front of the same doorway she’s entering in the first finale photo above.

Oh Elementary fans, I love your geeky, obsessive focus on every detail. Please never change.

(Confession: the layout of the brownstone is still a mystery to me, but I’m a Whovian and I’ve had to accept that I will never understand the ever-changing layout of the TARDIS, so I’m good. However, if any of you talented people ever designs a blueprint of the layout of the brownstone, I’d love to have a copy for my office wall.)

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ourpresidents:

Bill to Break the Sound Barrier

If you were the first woman to break the sound barrier, who would you pick to fly the chase plane behind you?

Jacqueline Cochran tapped her friend, Colonel Chuck Yeager for the task for her May 18, 1953 flight. A logical decision, since he was the first pilot to break the barrier in 1947.

Here is his final bill for his expenses, including the replacement of dead chickens that stampeded when her low-flying Sabre jet flew over a ranch.

More — Jacqueline Cochran, World Famous Aviatrix

-from the Eisenhower Library