September 20
Better Than News
Avatar is Born is an American musical romantic science fiction drama film about a young alien singer (Barbara Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a human military occupation officer (Kris Kristofferson), only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.
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.
John Wick 2049 is a science fiction crime film directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Keanu Reeves.
There Will Be Blood is a video game based on the 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
NFT Cowboy is a 1969 American buddy drama film about the unlikely friendship between two NFT hustlers: naïve sex worker Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Hoffman).
Pete and Spidey Face the Mutant is a personal drama self-help film starring Peter Parker and Spider-Man.
Wide Wide World of Microwave Weapons is an American microwave weapons anthology television program.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and crime-fighter Gerolamo Cardano discovered a previously unknown class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against Hypocycloids?
• ... that chemist and physicist James Dewar born. He will invent the vacuum flask, which he will use in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases?
• ... that mathematician and academic Paul Erdős firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, and that Erdős lived an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians?
• ... that mathematician Vera Faddeeva pioneered the field of linear algebra, andt that her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) will be widely acclaimed?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1842: Chemist and physicist James Dewar born. He will invent the vacuum flask, which he will use in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1906: Mathematician Vera Faddeeva born. Faddeeva will pioneer the field of linear algebra; her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) will be widely acclaimed.
1977: A series of celestial events occurs, with sightings reported over a vast territory, from Copenhagen and Helsinki in the west to Vladivostok in the east. It is commonly known as the The Petrozavodsk phenomenon after the city of Petrozavodsk in Russia (then in the Soviet Union), where a glowing object which showered the city with numerous rays was widely reported. The nature of the phenomenon is disputed.
1996: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős dies. Erdős firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
Topic of the Day
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Resents is an American reality television anthology series created and hosted by, and starring, Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. It features Alfred Hitchcock giving gifts to his family, friends, and complete strangers.