Scientific American Frontiers 1993. Actor Alan Alda became the permanent host starting in the fall season of 1993 and continued until the show ended in 2005. So the show was also billed as "Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers". Alda's tenure has been notable for his humble and often humorous approach: in one memorable segment, he became car sick while driving an experimental, virtual reality vehicle. In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned", published by Random House (); in the book, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in
Things Have Changed to another, "Your girl has a face like forty miles of bad road," and immediately recognised the remark's potential as a song title. The line “I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can,” seems to mirror Jackson Browne’s “No matter how fast I run, I can never seem to get away from me,” from “Your Bright Baby Blues,” 1976. On March 25, 2001, at the 73rd Academy Awards, "Things Have Changed" was awarded the Oscar for Best Original Song. At the time, Dylan was touring Australia. He and his band performed the song in a