June 22

Better Than News

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  Cyndi Lauper of the Third Kind is an 1977 American science fiction biography film about singer, songwriter and xenobiologist Cyndi Lauper.

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  Frasier 2049 is a science fiction thriller film about an insecure psychiatrist (Kelsey Grammer) in a posthuman future.

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  The Muppets: 1453 is a 2021 historical drama Muppets film about the 1453 capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.

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  Jonathan Swift Vineyards is a winery and Dionysery located in the 1667 to 1745 region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the county of Albemarle. It is among the 23 wineries located on the Prime Number Wine Trail.

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  Baby Sarlacc is a trade name for a juvenile sarlacc, popular as a novelty pet.

Beyond Plausible

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  Blade Muppet is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Jim Henson and Ridley Scott. It is loosely based on the 1968 novel Galactic Puppet-Healer by Philip K. Dick.

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  Soldier Knowledge, Carnal Blue is an American revisionist historical Western sexploitation film starring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Art Garfunkel.

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  Star Wars: Encounter at Kursk is an epic science fiction war film starring Alec Guinness.

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  "When Will Walleye Be Loved" is a popular song written by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, who had a US top-ten hit with it in 1960. Linda Ronstadt covered the song in 1975, and her version was an even bigger hit in the US, peaking at No. 2.

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  The Good, the Bad, and the Friendly is a spaghetti Western television series created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and directed by Sergio Leone.

In Other Words

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  Flying Fondue is a brand of consumer home personal fondue helicopters.

Are You Sure

... that mathematician Gabriel Sudan discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

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  1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts Galileo Galilei for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."

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  1864: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

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  1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

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  1977: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

Topic of the Day

Fruit

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  The Rocky Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic frozen confections film a father (Viggo Mortenson) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) seeking rocky road ice cream in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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  Brie Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film about the doomed love between a maverick dairy farmer and a rival rancher's wife, set against the backdrop of the wide prairie land of the Midwest.

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  "Odorious" is an exotic fruit dessert prepared and served by the catering rock band Durian Durian.

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  Chachi Loves Hamburgers is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of Hungry Days starring Scott Baio and Erin Moran.