In Poland it's already 2014 so Happy New Year from the past

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After few days of temperatures above 20 oC (we all wore summer clothes to my friend's Swedish Christmas party - it was weird) it got below 10 today. It should even drop below freezing tonight and we will, at least, have frost for Christmas. Which is more then my family is going to get because the temperature in Poland isn't going to drop below 0 ( Read more... )

​Golden Globes nominations were announced today and ​Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany got nominated in ​Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama​ category. I was disappointed at SAG for not including her earlier this week but all is good now. It also helps that they also appreciated The Good Wife which is awesome this season ( ( Read more... )

It was over 25 oC on Friday. People went back to wearing shorts and flip-flops and we were all overheating. It was still humid and hot during the night and I couldn't cool down my apartment even with the balcony door open wide. It was too hot to sleep and finally after 1 am I gave up and switched AC on too cool the place down. When I woke up on ( Read more... )

Have you see today's Google Doodle? It's a Doctor Who game and you can pick the Doctor you play with and escape Daleks and everything. Or if you're not a player you can just watch how it's done:

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I was so busy at work and so occupied by Doctor Who outside of it that I only learned today that Frederick Sanger died on Tuesday.

For someone like me his name is forever associated with Sanger sequencing - the first and until recently most widely used method of sequencing DNA - finding out the order of nucleotides in genomes that let us ( Read more... )

The countdown to the anniversary episode has started and BBC America shows almost nothing else. There is also more and more teasers showing up and this is a round-up of them

First something non-spoilerish (I think) - David Tennant introduces The Day of the Doctor:

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[These videos contain spoilers]Doctor Who on BBC Breakfast - with a lot of spoilerish information about The Day ( Read more... )

The winners of the World Fantasy Award were announced yesterday in Brighton during World Fantasy convention:

World Fantasy Special Award: William F. Nolan and Brian Aldiss

Novel
Winner: Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
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There was a solar eclipse today. It was a rare hybrid solar eclipse - from some places on Earth it is an annular eclipse (like the one I saw last year) and from others it is a total eclipse. But the totality was only visible over the Atlantic and in some parts of Africa. Here in the US east coast the sun rose after the main part was done so all I ( Read more... )

Today is the All Saints Day and my family spent it (and the rest of the weekend) visiting graves. But I'm here far away from all of them so I went to see Halloween instead. I haven't done it since my first time here because it was either cold or rainy but this time after a very cold last week (it was even below freezing at night) yesterday was very ( Read more... )