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Revision as of 09:10, 3 September 2022
Better Than News
Star Trek: The Matrix Generation is a science fiction television series.
Soylent Yellow is a 1973 American agricultural dystopian thriller film about a murder investigation involving the extinction of Cavendish bananas.
The Riddle of Tortilla Cavern is a 2023 science fiction foodie adventure film.
Zepsis is a mental condition that arises when the mind's response to lack of Led Zeppelin causes injury to its own perceptions and interpretations.
"Quicksand", also known as "Quicksand Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922.
Kray vs. Kray is a 1979 American legal crime drama film about two married criminal brothers who divorce, and the subsequent evolution of their relationship and views on criminal enterprises.
The Manchurian NFT is an American neo-noir psychological economic thriller film about an Army software developer who is brainwashed by a rogue artificial intelligence after his Army platoon is captured. He returns to civilian life in the United States, where he becomes an unwitting pawn in a conspiracy to delete all non-fungible token data.
Attack of the Roman Numerals is a 2021 American calendrical horror film about an alien species which Roman numerals to conquer the earth.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem — that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic — on this day in 1930, in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle?
... that the 1967/2021 American musical industrial training film How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying Was funded by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere?
... that on this day in 1939, Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich takes the actions which will later earn him the name "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war"?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1799: Physiologist, biologist and chemist Jan Ingenhousz dies. Ingenhousz discovered photosynthesis, as well the fact that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration.
1828: Organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé born. Kekulé will be one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry, and the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.
1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.
1939: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
Topic of the Day
Dune
Dune: House Soprano is a crime drama television series revolving around interplanetary mob boss Baron Soprano (James Gandolfini), portraying his difficulties as he tries to balance family life with his role in the assassination of Duke Leto Atreides and subsequent events on Arrakis.
Old Thumper is an American drama film about a Fremen boy and a stray dog on post-Butlerian Jihad Arrakis.
There's a Kind of Hush / All Over the Dune / Tonight / All over the dune / You can't hear the sound / Of Fremen on sand / You know what I mean.
Spice: 1999 is a science fiction television series starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. It is loosely based on the novel Destination: Spice by Frank Herbert.
The Dark Side of the Dune is a Melange-themed concept album by Glossu Rabban and the Don't Let Me Be Misunderstoods.
Guild Navigator is a 2000 epic historical science fiction film about a Spacing Guild pilot (Russell Crowe) who is betrayed when Princess Irulan, the ambitious daughter of the Padishah Emperor, murders her father and seizes the throne.