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Brainiac's Test Tube Baby
''Brainiac's Test Tube Baby'' was a live British parody popular science entertainment TV show hosted by Dominic Wood. It was a spin-off of the highly successful Sky1 show '' Brainiac: Science Abuse'' and first aired on Thursday 3 August 2006. Wood is assisted by former '' Big Brother'' contestant Jon Tickle who also co-hosts the original Brainiac programme. Aspects of the show included "The Test Tube Babes" (two Brainiacs who search out "scientific truth"), the "CO2 challenge", where teams competed to propel a wheelchair as fast as they can on fire extinguisher power alone, the blowing up of caravans and microwaves (as in its parent show) and competitions with questions about the Brainiac series. It also had a forum for viewers to contact the show with their science questions, e.g. "will a plant grow as well in saliva as it will in water?" Jon Tickle plays the "resident boffin" to answer these questions. The seventh episode which was scheduled to air on 21 September was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Wood
Dominic Simon "Dom" Wood (born 3 January 1977) is an English entertainer, magician, TV presenter and DJ. He is best known as one half of the double act Dick and Dom with Richard "Dick" McCourt, with whom he was won two British Academy Children's Awards for the shows '' Dick and Dom in da Bungalow'' and '' Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom''. Career Media As a child, Wood was part National Youth Music Theatre, which led him to his TV debut on CBBC's ''Friday Zone'' in 1996. He would go on to become a presenter on the CBBC strand in 1998, where he first worked with Richard McCourt. The two later became known as "Dick and Dom" and regularly appeared on CBBC together until 2018. From 14 October 2007 to September 2008, he and McCourt presented the Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 1 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, but later left the show due to TV commitments. The duo later became on-air hosts of Virgin Radio UK on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. On his own, Wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Tickle
Jonathan Parmer Tickle (born 8 May 1974) is a British television presenter who initially rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth series of the British television show '' Big Brother''. (He had appeared before this, however, as a contestant on the game show '' Blockbusters'' in 1991.) He was also a co-presenter on the Sky One television series '' Brainiac''.Brainiac: Jon Tickle Bio Sky 1 HD, retrieved 23 May 2011 He has an brother, an older brother, and a younger sister. ''Big Brother'' Tickle was allowed to return to the ''Big Brother'' house after having been evicted into the outside world (although during his second time in the house he was not eligible to w ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky One
Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). Originally launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, it was Europe's first satellite and non- terrestrial channel. From 31 July 1989, it became Sky One and broadcast exclusively in the United Kingdom and Ireland as British Sky Broadcasting's flagship channel. It existed until 1 September 2021, when it closed down as part of a restructuring with its EPG position taken by Sky Showcase and much of its content library moved to Sky Max. Sky One included some very popular original programmes—such as '' An Idiot Abroad'', '' Brainiac: Science Abuse'', '' The Russell Howard Hour'', '' Battlestar Galactica''—and many imported from North America, including '' 24'' (seasons 3–9, and its spinoff '' Live Another Day''), ''The X-Files'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', '' Star Trek: Voyager'', '' Bones'' (seasons 1–6, first half), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Abuse
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on Primary source, primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
