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Doctoral Candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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Tag Archives: Doctor Who

Female Doctor? Academia Needs More of Them.

16 Sunday Jul 2017

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Academia, Doctor Who, Gender Gap, Higher Education, Jodie Whittaker

The announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor in BBC’s Doctor Who has taken the internet by storm for being both a revolutionary change and one that rubbed sexist trolls the wrong way. But here is why academia should welcome the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor in Doctor Who.

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Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey: Doctor Who and the Topology of Time

25 Sunday Jun 2017

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Doctor Who, Philosophy of Science, Special Relativity, Time, Time Travel

General relativity and gravitational time dilation in the Doctor Who episode ‘World Enough and Time’. Note: This post contains spoilers for the recent episode of Doctor Who, ‘World Enough and Time’. (Although the events of the episode have been trailed in such detail that everything is obvious and predictable, and there are no surprises left in the episode.)

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