November 10

Better Than News

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  The Nixie Economy: How black market Nixie tubes fuel the underground economy is a study of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes, with an emphasis on the underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by a self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users.

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  "The Trouble with Hobbits" is one of the Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek.

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  RoboGodfather is an epic science fiction crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Verhoeven, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Peter Weller, and Kurtwood Smith.

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  Old Thumper is an American drama film about a Fremen boy and a stray dog on post-Butlerian Jihad Arrakis.

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  The Dark Knight of the Tweet is a violence-themed concept album by the Joker.

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  The Muesli Comes at Night is a 2022 short science fiction psychological dietary thriller film about a spacecraft officer (Sigourney Weaver) and an orphan girl (Carrie Henn) who must confront a mysterious cereal with a mind of its own.

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  Forget the Embers is a science fiction dystopian restaurant review television series hosted by Galactus, Devourer of Worlds.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel (10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, and later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus born.

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  1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

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  1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

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  1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

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  2003: Mathematician and logician Hans Hermes dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.

Topic of the Day

Mayonnaise

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  The Unbearable Lightness of Light Mayonnaise is a 1988 American documentary film, an interpretation of the 1984 novel of the same name by [REDACTED].

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  Miracle Whip is a 1981 action-cooking film about an archaeologist (Indiana Jones) seeking a legendary jar of miraculous mayonnaise.

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  The Seventh Mayo is a 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman about disillusioned Swedish chef Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), who vows to evade Death long enough to manufacture and distribute the world's best mayonnaise.