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Lost In Transition (or Why I’m Dugga Done with 2025)
It’s the last day of 2025 and I’m not entirely sure where it all went. You know, I sometimes think about how the different eras of each Doctor coincide with each of the different phases of my life. (Conisder this… Continue reading
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EVEN MORE Russell T Davies and the Number 57
A lot of blogs have been written this year about things Russell T Davies has said and done. People are asking questions such as “What is the future of the show?” and “Why has he decided to bring Billie Piper… Continue reading
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Doctor Who and The Maths Teachers
I have a question for you: do you know how many beans make five? I can hear you already shouting back at me. “It’s half-term week! School’s out! Let the teachers rest!” But I think there’s always time to learn… Continue reading
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What would OFSTED make of Danny Pink?
It’s now September, which means back-to-school time for millions of children. So I thought I’d write something with a school theme. And what better school to write about than the first one ever to feature in Doctor Who: Coal Hill… Continue reading
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“… Only you know the rules.” – Game Theory in The Curse of Fenric
“Real mathematics has no effect on war. No-one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years… But the ‘great… Continue reading
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Zoe Heriot Was a Pioneering Companion, and Here’s Why
When Who fans talk about mathematicians in Doctor Who, they will inevitably mention Adric. And why wouldn’t they? He was a self-proclaimed mathematical genius, he wears a star-shaped badge for mathematical excellence, and he essentially died trying to solve a… Continue reading
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The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part Two)
(Have you read Part one first? You can read it here.) Bad Wolf/The Parting of The Ways by Russell T Davies Saturday 11th – 18th June 2005 Bad Wolf opens with a recap of what happened on Satellite Five during… Continue reading
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The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part One)
Last month, I wrote about my very first episode of Doctor Who, which was of course Dalek. I make an off-hand mention that my entire viewing experience of that particular series, generally known to Who fans as Series 1 (2005),… Continue reading
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Pting? Gone! – Pentagonal Numbers in The Tsuranga Conundrum
Chris Chibnall likes maths. Like a lot. Putting maths into a Doctor Who script once was never enough for Chris. How gratifying then to find that he has done so three times over. Firstly in 2007, we had his debut… Continue reading
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“Something new.” – 20 Years of Dalek
On Saturday 30th April 2005, Dalek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom and I missed it. I’m not 100% sure what I was doing to be honest. I could have been sat in my bedroom playing some Crash Bandicoot… Continue reading
The Brain of Möbius 