Using the software that came with your webcam, usually found on the CD packaged with your laptop, you can also alter how your camera detects light and sound. Getting Windows to detect your webcam involves checking your Devices from the Control Panel, but you can be up and running conference calls within minutes.
Forty-seven-year old comedian and actor John Thomson met fellow comic Steve Coogan while studying drama at Manchester Polytechnic and he secured him a job on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image.
But even the best scientists have mixed records. William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, was one of the most famous British physicists of the late nineteenth century. He was known for his theoretical work on heat and for his practical work on the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. However, his estimates of the young age of the earth, based on the best physics of the late nineteenth century, turned out to be way off the mark.