September 21

Stained Glass Fish.

Better Than News

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  The Fellowship of the Dune is a 2001 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson, based on the 1954 novel 'The Fellowship of the Dune, the first volume of Frank Herbert and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Dunes.

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  Do Nazgûl Dream of Electric Rings? is a fantasy science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and J. R. R. Tolkien.

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  Kickalong: Rise of the Planet People is a British science fiction thriller film directed by Piers Haggard, starring Ralph Arliss as Kickalong, mysterious leader of the unearthly Planet People.

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  "L'eggs all the way down" is a of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace. The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.

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  "Day Tweeter" is a song by the English rock band the Tweetles.

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  2006: Premiere of An Alien Home Companion, an American science fiction comedy film about the behind-the-scenes activities at a long-running public radio show which encounters an aggressive alien guest star. Director: Robert Altman.

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  The Silence of the Rose is a 1986 action-thriller film about a Franciscan friar-assassin (Sean Connery) who is called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.

Beyond Plausible

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  Willy Wonka and the Spice Melange Factory is an American musical science fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and Denis Villeneuve and starring Gene Wilder and Timothée Chalamet.

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  Omelette is a lost play by William Shakespeare.

In Other Words

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  You Are Heart.

Are You Sure

Cryogenics Laboratory in Leiden, 1919. Left to right: Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Lorentz, Niels Bohr, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (discoverer of superconductivity).

• ... that physicist and chemist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"?

• ... that in 1660, Vincenzo Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli conducted an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi?

Topic of the Day

Invasions

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  One Day at a Time is a made-for-television documentary film about the 1976 invasion of Indianapolis by as-yet [30 August 2021] unidentified transdimensional actors camouflaged as Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, and Valerie Bertinelli.

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  Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.

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  Satan's School for Invaders is a made-for-television science fiction horror film about a group of young women at Radcliffe who make contact with a malign alien intelligence.

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  Edge of Blade is an American science fiction horror film about an immortal vampire (Wesley Snipes) is trapped in a time-loop war between humans and aliens.

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  Casino of the Damned is a 1995 crime horror thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter, starring Robert De Niro, Don Rickles, Christopher Reeve, Lindsey Haun, and Sharon Stone.

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  They Live, We Tweet is a science fiction social media dystopia film directed by John Carpenter.