Template:Better Than News/October 16
The Terroir is a 2007 novel by Mason S. Minds which tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's search for the fabled Northwest Vineyards. Plagued by starvation, illness, and cheap merlot, Franklin and his men are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.
"I don't care what they say we'll all die in "a World Without Bees" (Peter and Gordon).
"The Slurry with the Fringe on Top" is a show tune from the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipeline Ho!.
Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Every Which Way But Lost in Space is a 1978 American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.
The Dragons of NFT is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, which combines anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how intelligent non-fungible tokens may have evolved.