How to be more like The Doctor

Karl Hodge
7 min readApr 15, 2017

The Doctor’s an ancient being who travels through space and time in a wooden box and is always the smartest person in the room. There are far, far worse things than wanting to be a little bit more like Doctor Who.

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Karl Hodge

Journalist and University Lecturer, writing about health, science, tech and pop culture.