The best Science Fiction Show on TV

There aren't a lot to choose from these days. Unless you are talking about zombies or the undead or crapola like that. I don't care for that crap so I want to recommend "Orphan Black"  on BBC America.

I don't know if I have already done a post on this show but I am catching up with the new season and want to recommend that you give it a try.

It stars one of the best actresses I have seen in a long time. Tatiana Maslany plays a clone so she has about ten different characters that she has to keep track of. From a tough criminal type girl to a cop to a lesbian scientist to a soccer mom. Every year they add new clones and new characters to make it dizzying. My favorite it the Ukrainian assassin with the bad table manners. Plus Maria Doyle Kennedy for a rockin' Irish rock babe from out of my past.

There is a long involved story but luckily it is on Amazon Prime and On Demand so you can start from the beginning. The science fiction part is weird enough. This season they are featuring bio-alteration which seems like a sly commentary on trans-gender politics. 

There is a real lack of decent Science Fiction these days so I really enjoy this show. Highly recommended. 

"Anti-vaccine course brings U of Toronto one step closer..."

"...to offering a masters of pseudoscience"

the university’s just released report – a document that gives an all-clear, or at least all-clear-enough, to an anti-vaccine course taught by homeopath Beth Landau-Halpern at U of T’s Scarborough campus’s department of anthropology, as part of the health studies program offered there.

“We will delve into quantum physics’ understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific hypothesis of how these modalities may work…” Ms. Landau-Halpern promised those considering registering for her course, Alternative Health: Practice and Theory.

That sentence, which has given actual quantum physicists the vapours, is the academic equivalent of reversing the polarity of the neutron flow to stabilize the fluctuations in the temporal rift. It’s the kind of babble that saves fictional spacecraft and kills real babies. (read more)

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Just did some digging (really, was looking for the course syllabus for shits and giggles) but apparently UofT has concluded that the course won't be taught this year.Source

So when does U of T start offering Muggle Studies and Potions class?

When I first read the headline was all "I would love to have a BS in Pseudoscience!" thinking it would be all about understanding the different kinds of quackery people have made over the years and debunking them. But no, this is sold straight.