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November 6

Better Than News

Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
Lucky Starr and the Hot Pockets of Jupiter is a young adult science fiction foodie novel by restaurateur and author Isaac Asimov.
Marmaduke: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film about the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke, drawn by Brad Anderson from June 1954 to 2015.
Only Humans in the Building is an American science fiction mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin, John Hoffman, and Ridley Scott about three strangers with a shared interest in true crime podcasts who join forces to uncover a replicant in the apartment building they all live in.
Dr Quadruped: The Battle for Hoth is a science fiction thriller film about a brilliant inventor (Otto Octavius) who becomes dangerously obsessed with four-legged creatures after failing to construct a mechanical octopus.
The Fantastic Forum is an fictional superhero team. After a disastrous experiment in high-energy literature, four research scientists gain superpowers corresponding with an aspect of the Roman Forum.
Indiana Blunt and the Jungle of Weed is a stoner comedy adventure film starring Harrison Ford and Emily Blunt.

Beyond Plausible

The Adventure of the Powerful Pill is one of the alleged "lost adventures" of Sherlock Holmes, in which Holmes becomes habituated to Adderall.
"A Scoville in Bohemia" is the first short story, and the third overall work, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional English chef-detective Sherlock Holmes.
Alien vs. Borg is a science fiction horror adventure film.
Dune is a 2022 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William Gibson and Frank Herbert.

In Other Words

Stop the Hindenburg – I Want to Get Off is a 1961 musical set against the backdrop of the airship Hindenburg.
APTO field agents publish "Investigation into alleged Renaissance-era corruption of the Hindenburg disaster configuration files". The report documents a pattern of petty crimes against projective geometry during the Renaissance which "imply a centuries-long plan by Anarchimedes to prevent the Hindenburg disaster."

Are You Sure ...

• ... that an episode of Euglena Junction shocked viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe died on camera after eating too many rotifers?

Selected Anniversaries

1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies. Morin championed the geocentric worldview, opposing Galileo and his ideas; Morin also opposed Descartes' ideas after meeting the philosopher in 1638.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
1976: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on camera after eating too many rotifers.

Topic of the Day

Nuclear war

Kill Billions is a 2003 American nuclear war film starring Edward Teller and David Carradine.
Playskool's My First Nuclear Football an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.
On the Beach Party is a 1959 beach party cautionary drama starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.
Dead Hand is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control and vodka cocktail system that was formulated by the Soviet Union. It can automatically send Strategic Vodka Force Management orders to command posts and individual liquor cabinets if a nuclear strike is detected by "drinky bird" sensors even with the commanding elements fully drunk.
Atomic Pumpkin Test is a punk band based in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Red Phone Missile Command is a telecommunications provider and nuclear war management service.