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Submission + - Number Six Returns: AMC Releasing "The Prisone (amctv.com)

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DynaSoar
DynaSoar writes: "Of the many excellent TV shows to appear during the 1960s' "The Prisoner" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner remains one of the most influential and enduring. This single season (1967-68), 17 episode series, starring its co-writing, co-directing executive producer Patrick McGoohan http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001526/ , already famous for his acclaimed "Secret Agent Man" (US)/"Danger Man" (UK, maintains a steady fan base and gains more with each syndication re-release. For over 40 years there have been announced intentions and projects to resurrect this surreal psychodrama combining science fiction, allegory and spy thriller in a new series or movie (but always without McGoohan, who adamantly refused, saying "he'd done it."). Finally, as of December 2008, a remake has been "in the can" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(2009_TV_miniseries) . In November 2009, AMC will begin airing an original six-part mini-series of The Prisoner http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/ starring James Caviezal http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001029/ as the spy who resigns only to find himself abducted and transported to "The Village", where he is renamed (or rather renumbered) Number Six, and where the minds behind his incarceration attempt to pry and/or trick secrets from his brain. Chief among those minds is the visible face of the administration, Number Two, played by Ian McKellen http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005212/ . Unlike the original, with a new Number Two in each episode, McKellen appears throughout. To promote the upcoming release, AMC is presenting (along with a ton of 'additional material' stuff) the entire original 17 episodes, free for the streaming."
Biotech

Submission + - Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid 1

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Ponca City, We love you
Ponca City, We love you writes: "The Telegraph reports that men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive leading to speculation that men use up so much of their brain function or 'cognitive resources' trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks. Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study after one of them was so struck on impressing an attractive woman he had never met before, that he could not remember his address when she asked him where he lived. Researchers recruited 40 male heterosexual students and had each one perform a standard memory test where they had to observe a stream of letters and say, as fast as possible, if each one was the same as the one before last. The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test. The results showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score. "When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call 'reproductively focused,'" says Dr George Fieldman, a member of the British Psychological Society. "But a woman also looks for signs of other attributes, such as wealth, youth and kindness. Just the look of the man would be unlikely to have the same effect.""
Space

Engineering the 30-Meter Telescope 64

Posted by kdawson from the yet-another-football-field dept.
yyzmcleod writes "When completed in 2018, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be the world's largest and most powerful, with a resolving power 100 times that of Hubble. As TMT's preliminary design review nears, this article details how its enclosure, segmented mirror and adaptive optics will work to let astronomers peer back to the beginning of the Cosmos."

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