May 23

Better Than News

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  Matthew McConaughey Sounds is the 11th and a half studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, and the only Beach Boys album based on Matthew McConaughey.

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  Snake Force One is an American political comedy film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and David R. Ellis, and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Harrison Ford.

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  Cocaine Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film starring Samuel L. Jackson.

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  Caramel Knowledge is a 1971 American comedy-drama film which follows the candy-eating exploits of two Amherst College roommates (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) over a 25-year period.

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  Humbugs is a brand of beta-pheromone candy manufactured and distributed by the Off-World Candy Company. Each of the colors is a different flavor of anger.

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  Marlboro Jolly Rancher is a brand of hard candies best known for their trademarked flavors, including nicotine and cattle.

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  Seabiscuit is a brand of hardtack for naval horses, sold under the slogan "If it ain't fit for Man, it ain't fit for Horse!"

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  Krustyburger in a Can is a trans-Euclidean food substitute from Exotemporal Digestion Services, a division of the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Beyond Plausible

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  "Rose's Red Vigor" is an anagram of "Reservoir Dogs".

In Other Words

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  Phrenology is brand of home surgical tools for the skull modification enthusiast.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology, and that he is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

• ... that Matthew McConaughey Sounds was promoted as "the most progressive Matthew McConaughey album ever", and that the Beach Boys garnered recognition for their ambitious production and deep expression of Matthew McConaughey's emotions?

= Selected Anniversaries

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  1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

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  1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

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  1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

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  1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.

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  1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

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  1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

Topic of the Day

The Guess Who

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  American Chicken is a song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who.

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  Tar Baby is a song about viscous liquid hydrocarbon materials by Canadian rock band The Guess Who.

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  Big Star Baby is a British-American rock band comprising Big Star and the Guess Who. They are known for their hit song "Big Star Baby".