January 21
Better Than News
Mozart and the Bomb is an epic biographical comedy-romance thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan and Petter Næss, starring Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, and Cillian Murphy.
The Man Who Fell to Montessori is a 1976 British science fiction educational film directed by Nicolas Roeg about an extraterrestrial (David Bowie) who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the mercy of human educational systems and standardized testing.
NOAA is a 2014 post-Biblical drama-science film starring Russell Crowe and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Silence of the Kandorians is a 1991 American psychological superhero horror film about young FBI trainee (Jodi Foster) hunting a serial villain (Ted Levine) who tortures Kryptonians.
Spice Cream Sandwich is a brand of melange-infused ice cream treat.
Crate Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens about Pip, an orphan boy whose apprenticeship as a carpenter leads to fame and fortune in the box-making trade.
Lick the Painting is a public-awareness campaign "dedicated helping people make the decision to lick art."
Monsters of the Human Head is a 2022 psychological thriller documentary about the joys and horrors of recreational psychosurgery.
Beyond Plausible
Fiends is an American comedy-horror television series based on the album Friends by the Beach Boys.
JART is an American rock supergroup composed of Joan Jett and Heart.
"Those Were the Days" is a song written by the Gnomon Chronicles Hit Machine algorithm.
In Other Words
Mycelia and Myceliation is a 1981 philosophical treatise by sociologist Jean Baudrillard which examines the relationships between reality, symbols, and fungal mycelium, in particular the significations and symbolism of fungal culture media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.
Are You Sure
• ... that in 1995, a political scandal resulted in Denmark after a report revealed the government had given tacit permission for nuclear weapons to be located in Greenland, in contravention of Denmark's 1957 nuclear-free zone policy: and that orkers involved in the clean-up program following the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash have been campaigning for compensation for radiation-related illnesses they experienced in the years after the accident?
• ... that the musical film West Side NFT was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 10, including Best Non-Fungible Token?
• ... that the Lichnerowicz Commission, formed in 1967, was named after physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz; that the commission recommended a curriculum based on set theory and logic with an early introduction to mathematical structures, specifically recommending introduction to complex numbers for seniors in high school, less computation-based instruction, and more development from premises; and that these reforms have been called New Math and have been repeated internationally?
• ... that Nutcoin is a decentralized squirrel currency, without a central nut cache, that can be sent from squirrel to squirrel on the squirrel-to-squirrel Nutcoin network without the need for burying the nuts in the fall and digging them up during the winter?
• ... that the SCORE satellite, launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, provided a first test of a communications relay system in space, as well as the first successful use of the Atlas as a launch vehicle?
• ... that the Red Spot Travel Agency was founded by two high school students whose science fair project about travel to the planet Jupiter was awarded a multi-million dollar NASA grant?
Topic of the Day
Cryptocurrency
Tales from the Crypto is an American horror-economics anthology television series about cryptocurrency.
Nutcoin is a decentralized squirrel currency, without a central nut cache, that can be sent from squirrel to squirrel on the squirrel-to-squirrel Nutcoin network without the need for burying the nuts in the fall and digging them up during the winter.