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The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.
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The principles and practices of biosurveillance, a new interdisciplinary science, were defined and described in the Handbook of Biosurveillance, edited by Michael Wagner, Andrew Moore and Ron Aryel, and published in 2006.
Ackerman appeared extensively on-screen discussing his life and the history of science fiction fandom in the 2006 documentary film Finding the Future.
He worked as a researcher at ATR ( Advanced Telecommunications Research institute international, 国際電気通信基礎技術研究所 ), Japan from 1994 – 2000, a researcher at Starlab, Brussels from 2000 – 2001, and associate professor of computer science at Utah State University from 2001 – 2006.
In May 2006 he became a professor at Wuhan University's international school of software, teaching graduate level pure mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science.
The Venus Express orbiter has been continuously sending back Venus science data since April 11, 2006.
The project to build the science center was conceived in 2001 and construction started in 2006.
* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "
In his 2006 book Junk Science, Dan Agin emphasized two main causes of junk science: fraud, and ignorance.
Though by then she was no longer an active member of science fiction fandom, she was interviewed by phone during Wiscon ( the feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin ) in 2006 by her friend and member of the same cohort, Samuel R. Delany.
" In January 2006, MacLean reflected on the science behind the story:
In the film Sparkle Lite Motel ( 2006 ) and the TV miniseries The Lost Room ( 2006 ), the motel made forays into the realms of science fiction.
Veteran science fiction writer Jack Williamson ( 1908 – 2006 ) when asked in 1991: " Did the Wave's emphasis on experimentalizm and its conscious efforts to make SF more ' literary ' have any kind of permanent effects on the field?
The concern over SETI was raised by the science journal Nature in an editorial in October 2006, which commented on a recent meeting of the International Academy of Astronautics SETI study group.
The Girl Scouts of the USA placed a full page ad in the 19 March 2006 New York Times containing a version of the rhyme that was " resung by science " as part of their " Girls Go Tech " campaign.
In December 2006, Discover magazine ranked The Mismeasure of Man as the 17th-greatest science book of all time.
* April 29 – Jack Williamson, American science fiction author ( d. 2006 )
* September 12 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer ( died 2006 )
In September 2006, New Scientist was criticised by science fiction writer Greg Egan, who wrote that " a sensationalist bent and a lack of basic knowledge by its writers " was making the magazine's coverage sufficiently unreliable " to constitute a real threat to the public understanding of science ".
The Federal Science Pavilion ( photographed 2006 ), " a virtual cathedral of science.
* 2006 article " Sound science behind glowing sugar " on PhysicsWeb.
In 2006, another Sinclair C5 was fitted with a hybrid rocket engine for an episode of Sky TV's Brainiac science show.
2006 and fiction
Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.
* Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command ( 2006 ) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.
* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.
* The Bulletin, 16 March 2006, p. 14, Lobbying Europe: facts and fiction
* " The Passage " ( Battlestar Galactica ), a 2006 episode of the science fiction television series
She also features prominently in the book The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy, in the short story " Antickes and Frets " by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan, and is the main character in the Jan Westcott historical / biographical fiction novel The Tower and The Dream.
Scott Tipton's 2006 comic Spike: Old Wounds is detective fiction set during Season Five, and also features allusions to Spike's activities in the late 1940s.
* Tisiphone appears in Path of the Fury, a 1992 military science fiction book by David Weber ( reissued with a prequel backstory in 2006 as In Fury Born ).
Horrocks's voiceovers have been used on Chicken Run ( 2000 ), Christmas Carol: The Movie ( 2001 ), Corpse Bride ( 2005 ), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ) and Tinker Bell ( 2008 ) ( in which she was Fairy Mary ; she reprises the role in the Tinker Bell sequels ), and on radio as Fenchurch in the audio adaptation of Douglas Adams ' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio 4.
Works deriving themes and elements from Future Shock include the science fiction novels The Forever War ( 1974 ) by Joe Haldeman, The Shockwave Rider ( 1975 ) by John Brunner, the RPG Transhuman Space ( 2002 ) by Steve Jackson Games, and the indie RPG Shock: Social Science Fiction ( 2006 ) by designer Joshua A. C. Newman.
The 2006 film V for Vendetta drew inspiration from controversial issues such as The Patriot Act and the War on Terror, while science fiction thrillers such as Children of Men ( also 2006 ) and District 9 ( 2009 ) commented on diverse social issues such as xenophobia, propaganda, and cognitive dissonance.
" Beloved was chosen in a 2006 survey conducted by the New York Times as the most important work of fiction of the last 25 years.
2006 and film
It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.
A new feature-length documentary film by Edwin Pagan called Bronx Burning is in production in 2006, chronicling what led up to the numerous arson-for-insurance fraud fires of the 1970s in the borough.
* Bug ( 2006 film ), an adaptation of the Tracy Letts play, directed by William Friedkin
The 2006 film One Night with the King is a reenactment of the biblical story of Esther.
* The Bondage, a 2006 film by Eric Allen Bell
Her private discussions with Prime Minister Tony Blair were dramatised in Stephen Frears ' film The Queen ( 2006 ).
He also provided the voice of The Mayor in the 2009 film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the voice of Rod " Torque " Redline in Cars 2 and the voice of " Fugax " in the 2006 film The Ant bully.
* Bloody Mary ( film ), a 2006 horror film
Recent acting performances can be seen in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and the Sci Fi original film A. I.
** Cars ( film ), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar
In 2006, a documentary film called Crokinole was released.
In 2006, Charles starred in two feature films: the fantasy film Fated, and the gangster movie Clubbing to Death.
* Crank ( film ), a 2006 film starring Jason Statham
He made an uncredited appearance as Sam Green, the man who introduced Andy Warhol to Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 film Factory Girl.
Indian call centres have been the focus of at least two documentary films, the 2005 film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night and the 2006 film Bombay Calling.
* 1916 – Richard Fleischer, American film director ( d. 2006 )
* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director ( d. 2006 )
* 1941 – Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director ( d. 2006 )
* 1911 – Val Guest, English film director ( d. 2006 )
However, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 ( The 26th film in the franchise ) got a private screening in Washington, D. C. in November 2008.
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