April 7
Better Than News
Sushi Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction black comedy film about an everyday short-order cook in Indiana whose life changes after an encounter with a UFO.
Oliver! is a 1985 American political comedy film about a Marine Corps officer (Oliver North) who poses as an orphan in order to expose an illegal weapons trafficking operation.
The Three Stigmata of Philosophical Zombies is a 1964 philosophy textbook by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Moby-Cthulhu is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge against Moby-Cthulhu, the supernatural sea monster that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's soul at the knee.
The Birth of Alienation is a film prank in which the historic film The Birth of a Nation is temporarily replaced by a high-budget spoof version.
Metaphysical Vice is a police procedural religious poetry television series starring John Donne and Don Johnson.
Astronaut Farm is a 1954 aerospace political animal husbandry film set aboard the Eric Arthur Blair Memorial Space Station.
Suddenly Satellite is an advanced orbital satellite control system which also functions as a salad spinner.
Beyond Plausible
Sawless in Seattle is an American psychological horror television series starring Kelsey Grammer and Peri Gilpin, two marriage counsellors whose own marriage descends into madness when they host a live call-in radio show.
Erotic Maps of the Second World War is a collected volume of erotic maps, mostly of Europe, set during the Second World War, by author and military historian Anaïs Nin.
In Other Words
Fatal Recall is a 2021 automotive industry training film about the hidden costs of recalling vehicles. Narration: Sharon Stone, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Are You Sure
• ... that April 7 is National Abuse of Notation Day in the United States; and that while Canada does not have an official Abuse of Notation Day, the phrase "Every Day is Abuse of Notation Day" is often attributed to the mathematician-comedians of New Minneapolis, Canada?
• ... that computer scientist Donald Sarason pioneered the abstract treatment of contractive containment and established a fruitful connection between the spaces Hb and the ranges of certain Toeplitz operators?
• ... that astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini (7 April 1811 – 3 July 1881) was first rector of the newly established Istanbul University, where he gave lectures on physics, astronomy and psychology; that in one experiment, Tahsini placed a pigeon underneath a glass bell and emptied the receptacle, suffocating the pigeon; that conservatives considered Tahsini's experiment as evidence of witchcraft; and that Tahsini was declared a heretic through a fatwa, dismissed from the university, and forbidden to give lectures?
• ... that physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke (11 July 1812 – 7 April 1899) explored the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube, which turns heat into sound by creating a self-amplifying standing wave?
Topic of the Day
Dune
The Dune Knight is 2008 action-ecology film starring Christian Bale and Timothée Chalamet.
The Fremen is a 2022 American superhero film about a dispossessed aristocrat (Robert Pattinson) who uncovers corruption in the Gotham Water Department while investigating the Sprinkler, a water thief who is targeting Gotham's elite.
2001: A Spice Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction stoner buddy film about an intelligent computer (Douglas Rain) who befriends a dispossessed aristocrat (Paul Atreides).
Tleilaxu Face Music is a short documentary film about recent advanced in synthesizer technology.
Dune, Where's My Cargo? is a science fiction comedy stoner film about Paul Atreides (Ashton Kutcher), who finds himself unable to remember where he parked his spice crawler after a night of Water of Life recklessness.