Fringe episode 8 wrap-up: The Observers

Last night there wasn’t much science to be had, but they did manage to condense a lot of info on the elusive Observers into one short episode. Here’s a short version of some of our favorite moments. We’ll be doing this again the Thursday after Thanksgiving again at 9pm EST, so watch your [...]

Thanks to our tweeple for alerting us to the fact that tonight’s episode of Fringe is an out-of-sequence/never-aired episode from Season 1. While we will be including it in our videos and probably even write it up a bit, we won’t be launching the usual accompanying live blog. Apparently, Fringe will soon return to its Thursday timeslot, and we’ll be back here as well live blogging it with you. Stay tuned for more.

We’ve mentioned the movie Extraordinary Measures here previously… and we continue to look forward to seeing it in a few weeks’ time. However, the movie studio is running a campaign for people with inspiring stories (patients, scientists, patient advocates) to submit a video and build an inspiration video quilt of sorts. The winning video will receive $10,000 to direct to their favorite charity… and given how many science folks we have out there as readers, we hope you’ll let people know about all the interesting research and good work you do. Once you have submitted your video for the quilt, email it to us at yourstory@iambiotech.org so we can include it on our sister site IAmBiotech.org.

Just as a bit of background, the movie has a great tagline: Don’t hope for a miracle – Make one. The reason for the tagline (and the quilt for that matter) is because the movie centers around the struggle of a father (John Crowley) who is desperate to save his children from the very rare Pompe Disease. Crowley pleads for a biotech scientist to help him find a breakthrough cure before they die. Despite overwhelming odds, well… you’ll have to see the movie for the rest. But I can almost guarantee for those scientists and healthcare workers who work to heal our friends and neighbors on a daily basis, this will truly hit home.

We wanted to put a quick note up to folks that (at some point over the past few days) the network has decided to move Fringe around a bit. We’ll be back here live blogging with you now on MONDAYS at 9pm EST, instead of our regular Thursday dates. Join us then!