Take their glasses off or stick 'em in a tux and Bam! - you see the handsome man inside. Granted, not all geeks wear glasses, but let's call them a symbol of geekdom - like sweater vests or long hair. That is pretty much the crux of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.ģ) Glasses. This means that they're willing to believe that their loved one is a superheroine inside too. They may need some help to find that superhero, but there definitely is one. They know their limits, but they also know that every shaky exterior hides something special. (Oh boy!).Ģ) They're all superheroes inside. My favorite fast-talking, supersmart guy is Dr. You've got to love a man who can talk his way out of a problem. They've had to rely on their wit and brains to get out of sticky situations (usually involving the aforementioned buff and popular types). I started to wonder what it is that makes geeky heroes so appealing. Rhoda: I'm going through a phase of reading books that have geeks as heroes (and heroines) at the moment and I'm loving it. Don't talk.As geek lovers the world over bask in the glow of last night's season premiere of The Big Bang Theory, we at HEA are asking the question: Why do geek heroes make us so happy? Rhoda Baxter, author of Doctor January, explores … It was a clear violation of an action rule promulgated by the writer Donald Hamilton and by the movie "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly": If you're going to shoot, shoot. And I had somehow forgotten to see the winter finale of "Revolution" until recently while I have enjoyed the pulpy adventure much of the time, that episode was quite awful: bad guys giving chase would disappear until dramatic convenience required them, the technological implications of the energy device were not thought through, and there was SO MUCH YAKKING at crucial moments. On the TV side, I have been devoted to "The Hour," which wrapped up its second season last night with an episode that seemed especially weak - time stretching longer than the drama justified. Nor is this the only current film of such butt-wearing length "Lincoln" clocks in at about 2 1/2 hours, "The Hobbit" at 2:49, "Les Miserables" at 2:38 and "Skyfall" at 2:23. There were indeed 25 minutes of trailers, meaning that people who arrived on time for the movie would spend well over 3 hours in the theater, hoping that the giant concession Coke they had bought wouldn't burst through their bladders. Not to worry, the ticket-counter guy said they had six minutes before the start time - and the trailers would take 25 minutes. When I went to see the movie, which runs 2 hours and 45 minutes not counting credits, a couple ahead of me in line feared they were arriving late. I have been catching up on some movies, including "Dajngo Unchained," the new Quentin Tarantino mashup. In fact, after ‘Mothra’ and griffins, bees are his third-favorite flying creatures. Sheldon would be honored to know that Euglossa bazinga was inspired by him. “We are always extremely flattered when the science community embraces our show. Steven Molaro, one of The Big Bang Theory’s executive producers, acknowledged the unprecedented honor on behalf of the show and Dr. Hence, the bees’ grand “bazinga” on the world of science! Because the bees share so many similar characteristics, their existence as a separate species eluded scientists for years. Cooper’s zippyīrazilian biologist Andre Nemesio from the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia discovered the new species of beautiful, but misunderstood orchid bee that bears a striking resemblance to the Euglossa ignita, (or more common Western Brazilian orchid bee). Sheldon Cooper just crossed scientific fields, from theoretical physics to evolutionary zoo biology, as a new species of the Brazilian orchid bee - Euglossa bazinga - has been named after Dr. The global march to spread the genius of The Big Bang Theory’s Dr. The character, played by Jim Parsons, has inspired the name of a new bee, according to this announcement: Sheldon Cooper of "The Big Bang Theory" is the kind of guy who got A's in school - but now he has a B(ee). Today's mailbag, including a contemplation of why shows get canceled or moved, is here.
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