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Bill Nye the Science Guy Faints During a Lecture, Feels Like Lady Gaga
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Lady Gaga have more in common than you'd think.According to the Los Angeles Times, the scientist fainted Tuesday night while giving a lecture about global warming at USC. "What happened? How long was I out?" Nye asked the crowd when he regained consciousness. "Wow, that was crazy. I feel like Lady Gaga or something."
Much like the singer, who nearly passed out during a concert in New Zealand earlier this year, Nye carried on. Instead of cutting his talk short, Nye finished his discussion while sitting down.
They Blinded Us ... With Science: TV's Greatest Science Guys
Science was one of my least favorite subjects in school. The subject material didn't bore me. It actually enthralled me. It makes me wish nutrition class involved more random explosions and pyrotechnics, so I wouldn't have to buy pants in bulk (the actual size, not the amount). It was the teachers behind that tall mesh of test tubes and beakers that made it so boring. I'm sure they meant well as educators, but as teachers, they had no sense of showmanship. They couldn't sustain anyone's attention for longer than five minutes and their voice inflections could actually make dogs wish they were deaf.
Thank God for television. If it wasn't for TV's vast array of science shows from old favorites like 'Mr. Wizard's World' to newer fare like G4's upcoming spinoff 'It's Efffing Science,' my knowledge on the subject wouldn't reach beyond "Photosynthesis has nothing to do with photos or synthesizers." These are the greatest scientific minds to ever worm their way through the wondrous cathode ray in your TV.
Dave Foley and Bill Nye visit Stargate Atlantis this week
Do you know what a dilithium crystal is? Ever use the term "cosplay" when discussing your weekend plans? Own more than two non-Star Wars action figures? If you answered "Affirmative!" to any of these questions, then you'll be staying home this Friday night, because you're a nerd. It's cool. That means you'll be able to catch this week's ep of Stargate Atlantis, with guest stars Dave Foley, Bill Nye the Science Guy and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. All nerds, by the way.Kids in the Hall vet Foley plays a professional rival of Dr. McKay (David Hewlett), who invents an anti-global warming device that, instead of ending global warming, almost kills everybody at a swanky party, including Nye and DeGrasse Tyson. Not intrigued? Gateworld says there might be a scene with Jewel Staite stuck in a giant freezer. I know. It's a good show.
Changes to Millionaire: New lifelines, funky music ... and a clock?
Anyone who's read TV Squad for any period of time knows that we have a bunch of game show fans here. OK, maybe it's just me and Bob. But we've been watching game shows for years and know what works and what doesn't. A challenging premise that allows the viewer to play along? That works. Picking numbered cases at random? That doesn't (at least not after the first five episodes, anyway).So, when I heard about the changes that were coming to the syndicated Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, I wanted to reserve judgment until I saw them. Now that Meredith Vieira's smiling face has graced my TV for the seventh season opener, I can say that I like most of the changes ... except for one. The new graphics and music are fine, the new lifelines make more sense (more on those in a second). But now there's a clock.
Yeah, you heard me; the show that once let contestants take as much time as they wanted to answer very tough questions now adds the pressure of a time limit. And that's not a good thing.
BattleBots heading back to TV
Nerds and engineering students rejoice. Battlebots is returning to television and this time it's on ESPN.The show originally ran for five years on Comedy Central and included hosts such as Donna D'Errico and Carmen Electra. Bill Nye served as "technical adviser". ESPN promises that this time the show would be less about the female-model hosts and general silliness and more about the science and the robots destroying each other.
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Today on TV Squad Daily:
- The Bachelor gets some support, kind of, from Jen, the 2005 Bachelorette who didn't find love on the reality show either.
- Even Bill Nye the Science Guy has relationship issues in real life. His involve someone poisoning a vegetable garden with solvents, but still.
- Update: Heather Mills continues to be impossible to like.
Six TV doctor cage-matches I'd like to see
Welcome to TV Squad Lists (formerly 'The Five'), a feature where each blogger has a chance to list his or her own rundown of things in television that stand out from the rest, both good and bad.
I'm honestly not even sure how I came up with this, but there are a ton of medical dramas and comedies on TV. That means there's a lot of TV doctors, both past and present. So why not have some of them do battle? I think it seems incredibly logical. Peanut butter and jelly. Hot dogs and beans. TV doctors and cage-matches. So there... because I said so.
Now, with so many shows out there, some people may be wondering why I didn't choose doctors from some of the programs you'd expect. For instance, I stayed away from pitting any of the members of Grey's Anatomy in a battle royale because I figured if any of them got into a fight with someone, it'd just turn into an unexpected sex romp. By the same token, I didn't pick anyone from St. Elsewhere figuring that any fight involving someone from that show would just evolve into an inside joke that only a few people understood. Additionally, not every character I picked is from a straight up "medical" show and in one instance, I'm not sure they're actually even a doctor. Whatever... it sounds fun doesn't it?
Bill Nye the Science Guy gets married
At 50 years old, Bill Nye the Science Guy
has tied the knot. That's right, ladies. The last great bachelor is now taken (or, is that George Clooney?).Nye married Blair Tindall, author of Mozart in the Jungle and a former concert oboist, on Friday.. Cellist Yo Yo Ma, accompanied by MIT Media Lab Professor Michael Hawley on the piano, performed the wedding march.
Numb3rs: Scorched
6,013 fires. 30,000 BTUs. 700 arson deaths. 1 match. Burn, baby, burn. A serial arsonist is on the loose.
Up until now, Don and the rest of his team had thought the fires were being set by members of a local activist group
known as the Earth Liberation Movement. Then people started dying. First, a salesman at an auto dealership and then six
firefighters were severely injured at another explosion. But that's okay, I wasn't worried because Bill Nye came in and
saved the day.
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