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Revision as of 06:30, 23 October 2022
Better Than News
RoboCop Farm is a satirical allegorical science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Peter Weller. It is loosely based on the novella of the same name by George Orwell.
No Time to Pray is a 2021 Christian spy film starring Daniel Craig in his fifth and final portrayal of fictional British theologian James Bond.
The Bourne Depravity is a 2021 American action-horror film about a former CIA assassin (Matt Damon) who is pursued by a relentless supernatural killer (Jason Voorhees).
The Turkey Chainsaw Massacre is a 1974 American horror-cooking film about a group of friends who must save Thanksgiving from a family of deranged chefs.
Pump Up the Jam is a comedy food science film about a company's attempts to make inflatable jam. Shown here: Early research scene depicting the first prototypes of jam inflation balloons with hand-made pressure tubes.
End of Days of Thunder is an American supernatural sports action horror film starring Tom Cruise, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Randalorian is a science fiction Objectivist television series loosely based on the life of Ayn Rand.
Centipede Kane is a quasi-biographical film horror film examining the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on several famous plastic surgery barons, as well as aspects of their patients' lives.
Are You Sure
• ... that computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter contributed to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
Topic of the Day
Psychedelia
"Kwisatz Haderach" is a song by the Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock band Let Calm Barracks Worry.