Harry Kloor: Hollywood’s favourite scientist Harry Kloor is a smart guy and an interesting guy. He was a very good student. He went to college and got a Ph. D in Chemistry and a Ph. D in Physics. That’s pretty amazing but, even more amazingly, he got them at the same time! So, what does a smart guy with two Ph.Ds do? Well, go to Hollywood of course! Harry wasn’t interested in being a professor. He loved Star Trek (《星际迷航》), both the TV series and the movies, so he became a writer. He wrote sci-fi movies and TV series. Now he’s involved in making a new movie that involves science fiction and science fact. He is working with NASA to make a CGI movie. NASA wants to make the movie to get the public, especially young people, interested in space science. Kloor says the movie is about a Photon, a sun particle（粒子）, who has to save the universe from being destroyed by the Void (or “nothingness”) which was the universe before the Big Bang. Kloor says this movie will be different from other sci-fi movies because they will be using real images from the spacecrafts that are currently travelling on space missions. He says the characters in this movie will be “acting” in a “real” universe. When you see this movie you will be able to experience what it is really like to travel in space ．．． and you will be able to eat popcorn（暴花米） while doing it.。。。。 Tomatoes I’m sure you have eaten tomatoes. They have the most vitamin C of all the vegetables. Tomatoes grew in South America thousands of years ago, but they were eaten by people only hundreds of years ago. In the U. S., people didn’t eat them until less than 200 years ago. Before that, most people in the United States believed that the tomato was a poisonous food. In 1820s, a famer found that tomatoes were very good and wanted to make them popular. Unfortunately, people were afraid to try them. They all thought that if you tea a tomato, you would surely get sick. “Eat a tomato with fish, and you’d better send for a doctor. Eat a tomato with fish and ice cream and you can forget the doctor. Just call an undertaker (殡仪员).” The farmer decided to do something surprising. He wanted to show everybody that tomatoes were good, so on the next market day, e stodd on the court house steps and ate a tomato. Many people came to watch him. The farmer stood there, waiting until a large crowd got together. Then he quickly walked up the court house steps, lifted a basket of tomatoes for everyone to see, and ate one, then a second one, and a third one…, but he didn’t die. Farmers have been growing tomatoes since then. You can see a number of different tomatoes in stores now. People don’t think they are poisonous any more. They just think they are delicious.