Anyone else noticed that certain words, places and other items crop up unusually often in comedy routines (sketches, standup, whatever)? Wikipedia has an inherently funny words item about this phenomenon. Apparently the duck is the funniest animal. Although I would consider the badger a close second. Recent examples I've noticed…
The University of Nottingham has this excellent page of videos about each element in the periodic table. Educational and fun. And Prof. Martyn Poliakoff has excellent scientist hair.
Probably the best of the lot so far, even though it did cut a lot from the book. Mind you, the book had a lot of cuttable stuff, so that's not a bad thing. The film stuck to the plot well. A criticism perhaps is that the adult characters weren't…