October 5
Better Than News
Undercover Reds is an American epic historical comedy-drama film which explores the lives and careers of wise-cracking spy couple Jane and Jefferson Red, and their friendship with journalist John Reed.
The Silence of the Aliens is an American science fiction horror film about a young FBI trainee (Jodie Foster) who is hunting an alien serial killer, "Nostromo Bill" (Ted Levine), who lays his eggs in human victims.
Alien's Eleven is a science fiction horror-heist film directed by Ridley Scott and Steven Soderbergh, and starring Sigourney Weaver and George Clooney.
Quest for Firestarter is a 1981 prehistoric horror-adventure film about the struggle for control of destructive psychic powers by early humans.
"The Trouble With Triffids" wins the Caldecott Medal for Children's literature.
The Morning Comes Will Not Be Revolutionary is a song by Gil Scott-Heron and Hall and Oates.
Secret Reagent Man is a British-American television series about a spy (Patrick McGoohan) and a musician (Johnny Rivers) who team up to advance chemistry worldwide. Periodically guest starring Dmitri Mendeleev.
The Chromo-Pee Olympics is an international sporting event in which participants attempt to urinate in five contrasting colors.
Beyond Plausible
Psaltry on Precinct 13 is a 1976 crime drama musical thriller film directed and scored by John Carpenter.
"Someone Shaved My Beef Tonight" is a song by Elton John.
In Other Words
There is no destination, only the journey.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Viking 2 spacecraft conducted biology experiments in search of life on Mars, and that the results were surprising and interesting?
• ... that statesman and prelate Paolo Sarpi (14 August 1552 – 15 January 1623) was also an experimental scientist, a proponent of the Copernican system, and a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei?
• ... that the House of Malevecchio is responsible for nearly all of the crimes against mathematical constants committed during the Renaissance?
• ... that mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi (16 May 1718 – 9 January 1799) was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook, and the first woman appointed as a Mathematics Professor at a university?
• ... that mathematician Benjamin Peirce (4 April 1809 – 6 October 1880) made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; and that Peirce famously stated: "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions"?
Topic of the Day
The Dark Knight of the Tweet is a violence-themed concept album by the Joker.
The Six Million Dollar Tweet is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, who is rebuilt with superhuman social media proficiency due to bionic implants and is employed as a secret influencer by a fictional transdimensional corporation.
Dr. Strangemusk is a 2022 American black comedy documentary film that satirizes the fears of Elon Musk weaponizing Twitter.
