British Scientists' Search For Alien Life Renewed With UK SETI Research Network
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British Scientists' Search For Alien Life Renewed With UK SETI Research Network

UK scientists are stepping up their efforts to search for alien life, forming the United Kingdom Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (UK SETI) Research Network.  Academics from various British institutions have banded together to form a "small but active group of SETI researchers in the UK, who need a forum to discuss their work."

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What If Shakespeare Wrote Star Wars?
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What If Shakespeare Wrote Star Wars?

Imagine a world where George Lucas didn't write the Star Wars saga; but Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare did. How do you think that would turn out? 

Think no more, as Ian Doescher's new book, appropriately named William Shakespeare's Star Wars, translates the whole of A New Hope into pure Shakespearean prose. 

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Fear and Excitement for this year’s Political Biopic 'The Butler'
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Fear and Excitement for this year’s Political Biopic 'The Butler'

Lee Daniels, the man who brought us the Oscar nominated Precious in 2009, and 2004’s The Woodsman, released the theatrical trailer for political biopic The Butler earlier this month. Due to hit UK cinemas in August, this epic excavation into recent US political history reportedly cost a 25-million-dollar budget. Was this great financial effort to produce a damning and revelatory revision of history, or just ‘business as usual’, politically and industrially speaking?

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Sony and Disney Start Streaming Films Still In Cinemas
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Sony and Disney Start Streaming Films Still In Cinemas

No industry resists change like the film industry, millions have been spent over the decades to keep the silver screen away well away from our familiar four walls. Sony and Disney have boldly moved into the unknown, piloting a trial that allows the residents of South Korea to watch on demand some films that are still being shown in the theatres.

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'Lone Signal.' Start-Up Transmits Your Tweets To Outerspace
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'Lone Signal.' Start-Up Transmits Your Tweets To Outerspace

What is out there? Now you can try and talk to extra-terrestrial live, as New York-based Lone Signal is sending your online messages into space.  Simply submit your message (about the length of a tweet) and they will take care of the rest, broadcasting it 17 light years away to the Gilese 526 Solar System via the Jamesburg Earth Station in Carmel Valley, CA.

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