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Yeah, I'm a big fan of Jim Al-Khalili. For some reason his voice seems to penetrate further into my thick head than most of his contemporaries. If you liked that one, he's done quite a few series for the BBC and they're all excellent. Here's a list. Atom, Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity, Order and Disorder -…

Interviewer: "Have you lived here your whole life?"

Oh my goodness!

I had a fascination with the past as a child which has led me to where I am today. A little less dangerous.

I'm glad you survived your childhood.

I was 7 when I knew I wanted to be a reporter. It was 1972. It wasn't Watergate, although that probably cemented it for me, I'd seen The Night Stalker and I wanted to be Carl Kolchak. I did it for 31 years, including 16 years on the crime beat at night. Never got to cover a vampire killing, though.

I hope so. I know that I was six when my parents knew what I was going to do with my life. They like to tell everyone the story of having to drag me out kicking and screaming from Eisenhower's presidential library. It's just gotten worse as I've gotten older.

And a future IO9 editor has taken her first steps into a larger world... :D

And that was the moment that Shaylee decided that she wanted to become an astronaut. It was a long, hard journey, but luckily she had Chris Hadfield's book to help guide her and internet video of the first rocket launch she ever saw for when things got tough.

I, a 25 year old man, am still that little girl.

Great recommendation for the Turing film, thanks!
Another sympathetic Turing reference is a great documentary called The Secret Life Of Chaos by Jim Al-Khalili.

Derek Jacobi had a turn at something similar in Breaking the Code (1996). I remember it being quite good, and very sad.

That's not a real bomb. That is from an ad campaign for perfume.

"This disconnection was probably intentional on Turing's part, rather than deliberate exclusion on theirs, as his attention was drifting away from computing towards bigger questions about life."

Woodburning sets were popular when I was a kid. It was an artsy craft kit where you used a hot electric iron tool something like a soldering iron to burn patterns and pictures into sheets of wood. If your seven year old kid so much as touched the tip it was an instant third degree burn; hey, it was the '50s. Yes, of…

Fascinating; too bad none of it matters. The problem is not finding evidence—there's mountains of it. The problem is that no amount of evidence will ever be enough. The disconnect is not in the scientific or historical record, it is in the brains of conspiracy theorists. Their desperate psychological need to…

Well, you can't make a cake without breaking a few eggs.

Christ, what a truly misleading title. The meta-analysis only proved that practice works for certain activities, like music, sports, and games. We already knew this. Nobody said practice makes you a better programmer; it's your knowledge of syntax and mathematics that does that.