April 6

Green Tangle.

Better Than News

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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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  The Turing Completeness of Tutankhamun is a made-for-television movie which explores the question: Was the Pharaoh Tutankhamun Turing complete? And if so, can we make valid computations today based on Tutankhamun's grave goods?

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  The Twilight Gnome is an American science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling which features stories about gnomes.

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  The Joy of Thes is a 1972 illustrated manual of intimate thesaurus activities.

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  Irish Spring Fresca is a seasonally available variety of the soft drink Fresca which contains up to 2% Irish Spring soap.

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  Matrix of Steel is a 2013 American superhero science fiction film starring Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.

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  Jules Vernacular: His Life and Grammar is a 2022 revisionist biography of famed attorney Jules Vernacular.

Beyond Plausible

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  Two Funerals in Berlin is a 2008 thriller buddy film about an aging spy (Michael Caine) who must help his younger self solve a decades-old mystery.

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  The Irisman is a 2019 American epic crime drama film which follows Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a floral truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster florist Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), head of the powerful Floristers Union.

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  Young Destination: Final Guns is an American supernatural western film loosely based on the adventures of Devon the Kid during the Volée Airlines Flight 180 War.

In Other Words

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  SpongeBob Fyrkantiga Byxor.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals?

• ... that computer scientist Anita Borg (17 January 1949 – 6 April 2003) founded the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology?

• ... that comic book artist Gil Kane (6 April 1926 – 31 January 2000) co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics?

• ... that painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) is widely regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, and that his vast body of work include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings?

• ... that Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjuncts to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens?

Topic of the Day

Apparel

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  Invasion of the Birkenstockers is a 1978 horror-fashion film about the "Birkenstock Scare" of the early 1970's starring Leonard Nimoy and Veronica Cartwright.

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  "Pale Blue Tights" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. The episodes features a cameo appearance by American rock band the Velvet Underground.

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  Prêt-à-Phaser (US: Where No Fashion Has Gone Before) is an action-apparel science fiction film written and directed by Robert Altman 1.1 for the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

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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.