I went to a museum and learned that Isaac Newton was actually a pirate and secretly did scientific research without his crew mates knowing. There was even a stone carving of him on his ship, feathered hat and all.
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¿they really went “we are going to open the second of our three specials celebrating the 60th anniversary of our tv show with an isaac newton febreeze commercial and it is going to have absolutely zero bearing on anything beyond giving the doctor and donna something to gossip about and making a thousand tardis wiki editors burst into flames” huh?
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Lorde - laughing ‘til our ribs get tough
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No one went to his lecture😔
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silly with a dash of angst WBY doodles
I adore them so much
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“Who's Newton?”
The Pirate Planet - season 16 - 1978
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
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Letting kids see a different, discursive take on history is really cool and really important.
It’s why I think there is still a genuinely radical element to Hamilton despite all its issues with lionising the Founding Fathers - because it’s asking people to imagine a history where this was possible.
Not to mention, tbh, this is actually kind of an incredible nod to the debt that European Enlightenment-era science owed to the scientific tradition in Asia and the Middle East, which Eurocentric history has been ignoring for centuries.
If a British kid sees this and digs into Newton’s life, they might well be disappointed to find out that he was actually white, but hopefully they’ll then find out about Ibn al-Haytham (known in Europe as Alhazen) and see the enormous debt Newton’s work owes to his.
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An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious.
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[Cueball sits under a tree. An apple falls from the tree and hits him on the head.] Bonk
[The view zooms out, showing the moon, which Cueball looks up at.]
[Closeup on Cueball.]
Cueball: ...
Cueball: We should grow apples on the moon.
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Whovians after that scene:
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