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Revision as of 06:34, 3 June 2022
Better Than News
My Three Sons: The Next Generation is a television series about three crime-fighting brothers from the future (ZZ Top) who must go back to the past to prevent their father (Fred MacMurray) from inventing the time machine.
Criminal Minds: One Shade of Grey is an erotic romantic police procedural crime drama television series starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
Cut the Right Wire is an American comedy-drama action film written and directed by Spike Lee.
"Louvre Hurts" is a song by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
Unicycle Dundee is a 1986 action unicycling film starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich came into conflict with the Soviet authorities in the early 1950s, but was protected by Ivan Petrovsky, the Rector of Moscow University; and that belonged to a group of Pochvennichestvo-influenced dissidents who endorsed the Orthodox Christian tradition?
• ... that Ayn Rand Shrugged is a historical novel by Sisyphus about author Ayn Rand?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1659: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory born. At the Union of 1707, he bill be given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the First Opium War.
1923: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.
2009: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says Arnold.
2010: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.
Topic of the Day
Non-Fungible Tokens
Planet of the NFTs is a 1968 science fiction NFT film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future where non-fungible tokens have been deleted.
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My NFT" is a song by the English rock band the NFTeatles.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young NFT is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A nichtfungibletokenroman written in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and financial awakening of young Stephen Dataloss, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to the loss of data, which undermines the non-fungible token economy.
The Adventures of Rocky and NFTwinkle and Friends is an American animated television series about an anthropomorphic flying squirrel, Rocket J. ("Rocky") Squirrel, and an NFT-minting moose, Bullwinkle N.F.T. Moose.