While spaceflight and space insurance has its fair share of colourful characters, they pale when it comes to some others involved in measuring risk. As such, we are sad to reveal that the world of horse racing and betting has just said goodbye to one of its biggest...
The world renowned British Broadcasting Corporation – more normally known as the BBC – has been licking its wounds after a series of disastrous decisions has caused it to lose a lot of its public support. The most recent of these was its support of...
The actress and singer Doris Day never really made a space movie, though one, The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), in which she co-starred with Rod Taylor, was a comedy romance/spy film whose plot involved the attempted theft of NASA space secrets. Despite this lack of...
While the UK Prime Minister Theresa May might be at risk of being imminently fired herself – not least over her determined self-righteousness over her Brexit plan (Update on 28 May 2019: Prime Minister May has now given in her notice to quit and will leave...
The seven foot two inch tall actor Peter Mayhew, who played the Chewbacca Wookiee role in the long running Star Wars movie series beginning in 1977, has passed away at the age of 74. Mayhew originally did acting part time in between his job as a hospital porter. ...
The Doctor character in the BBC’s Doctor Who has successfully changed sex. Well you can do these things as a Time Lord (but not if you are an Earth-bound spy called James Bond as some too pro-diversity types are also advocating). And pretty good Jodie...
