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Better Than News
Assault on Birdcage 13 is an action comedy thriller film directed by John Carpenter and Mike Nichols, and starring Robin Williams, Austin Stoker, Gene Hackman, and Darwin Joston.
Bierced is a 1999 American supernatural horror-lexicography film starring Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce. It is loosely based on the life of writer Ambrose Bierce.
The Witches of Hairspray is a comedy supernatural thriller film written and directed by John Water and George Miller.
From Russia With Laughs is a spy comedy television series starring Bob Newhart.
Night Courtship is an American television sitcom set in the night shift of a Manhattan couples counselling clinic presided over by a young, unorthodox psychologist, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson).
Cretaceous Twitter is a time travel research project which extends Twitter into the Cretaceous period.
The Crack in Babel is a 1966 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. It was adapted for film by Alejandro Iñárritu in 2006.
Are You Sure ...
... that physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox?
... that Intercontinental Ballistic Pizza is a transdimensional pizza delivery service based in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere?
On This Day
1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.
Topic of the Day
Electricity
Twisted Pair Sister was an American heavy metal band and network technology company originally from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and later based on Long Island, New York.
Ionic Bondi Beach is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, famed for its chemical bonding, both the bonding of oppositely charged ions, and the bonding of two atoms with sharply different electronegativities.
"Static Mat" is a song by Yup from their album Obdurate.
Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (LCCBB) is a downloadable, user-reprogrammable cologne. The bottle's distinctive automobile design has an unusual feature — two decorative spare tires which conceal a Fleming valve. When activated, the valve emits "putt-putts" of ionized cologne.
NiCaddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film about Nickel–cadmium battery technology.
Dynamo Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; March 1, 1917 – February 24, 1994) was an American electrical engineer, singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to prominence as an engineer artist during the Bell Telephone era.