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Revision as of 18:57, 22 August 2022
Better Than News
Erotic SETI is a collection of erotic short stories, essays, and poems by Anaïs Nin about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
The Salem orb trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of Orbcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot. Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in a cave and forced us to tend the elephant. ("Tending Plato's Elephant")
Scotty's Place is a home improvement reality television series hosted by Montgomery Scott.
The Alien Team is an American science fiction action-horror television series about six former members of a fictitious United Humans Army Special Forces unit working as soldiers of fortune aboard the commercial space tug Nostromo.
Junc is a 2022 American science fiction film based on the television series Sanford and Son.
Are You Sure
... that The Treachery of Substances is a short documentary film by René Magritte and Jerry Stiller.
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1638: René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.
1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
Topic of the Day
Musicals
The Sound of Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film loosely based on the 1965 American musical drama film The Sound of Music.
Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.
An American in Peristalsis is a 1951 American musical biology film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Peristalsis by physiologist-musician George Gershwin. The story is interspersed with dance numbers which illustrate radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagates in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction, choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music.
Heresy is a rock musical about the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics.