August 30

Better Than News

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  Möbius Potato is a non-orientable documentary film about efforts to develop potatoes derived from Möbius strips.

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  Citrusball is a family of sports involving citrus fruit. Derived from basketball, citrusball is played around the world, with many diverse local variations.

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  The Dane in the High Castle is a tragic science fiction play by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

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  Full Metal Shining is a war horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson and Vincent D'Onofrio.

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  Avatar: The Last Air Horn is an American animated fantasy action television series about people who can telekinetically create painfully loud sounds inspired by air horns.

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  Full Metal Recall is a science fiction war film directed by Stanley Kubrick and Len Wiseman starring Colin Farrell, Matthew Modine, and R. Lee Ermey.

Are You Sure

... that "The Casein Glory" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1751: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist Christopher Polhem dies. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.

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  1844: Astronomer Francis Baily dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).

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  1884: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg born. He will be awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.

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  1906: Mathematician and academic Olga Taussky-Todd born. She will contribute to matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis.

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  1940: Physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson dies. His research in cathode rays led to the discovery of the electron. Thomson also discovered the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element.

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  1954: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division announces daily Flying Diner breakfast and dinner flights between San Francisco and New Minneapolis.

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  2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Topic of the Day

Cheese

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  Brie Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film about the doomed love between a maverick dairy farmer and a rival rancher's wife, set against the backdrop of the wide prairie land of the Midwest.

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  Snow Angel in Queso is a thriller comedy film about an addictive queso dip which causes [REDACTED] until the bags all bursts and chips fly everywhere.

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  Hellcheeser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film about a cheese-based snack foods which summon the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between Cheetos and Doritos.

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  A Gouda gun is a type of hand tool for applying Gouda cheese in a precise and often decorative manner.

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  Kit Kat String Cheese in low Earth orbit. [Source: Off-World Candy Agency]

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  "The Casein Glory" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

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  Flying Pig Cheese House is a pareidolia-based cheese merchandising franchise.