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== Better Than News == | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:24, 1 July 2023
Better Than News
Purple Recall is a 2012 American science fiction coming-of-age film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Colin Farrell, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover.
Three Days of the Captain is a political superhero thriller film directed by Sydney Lumet and the Russo brothers, starring Robert Redford and Chris Evans.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." —Popeye the Sailor Embryologist
The Lord of the Ringos is an epic music-fantasy film about a drummer (Ringo Starr) whose riffs will decide the fate of Beatle Earth.
"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Borg" is a song English singer-songwriter Elton John.
NFTspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film about a group of NFT addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
Beyond Plausible
Pastel Packin' Mama is a 1943 American neo-Western art thriller film starring Ruth Terry and Robert Livingston.
Star Trek: Abel and Cain is a 2022 American revisionist Biblical science fiction adventure story about two brothers whose careers take them in different directions.
In Other Words
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Obligate Sexual Parasitism is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
Are You Sure
• ... that polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert demonstrated that illumination is proportional to the strength of the light source, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the illuminated surface and the sine of the angle of inclination of the light's direction to that of the surface?
• ... that mathematician Lev Schnirelmann used the Brun sieve to prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant?
• ... that journalist and author George Plimpton is famous for his "participatory journalism", which included competing in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur?
Topic of the Day
Star Wars
Peter and the Force Op. 67, a "symphonic Force choke for children", is a musical composition co-written by Sergei Prokofiev and John Williams.
Crimson Droid is a 2015 gothic science tragedy film.
Where's Jar Jar? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between a lawyer (Jar Jar Binks) and his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with his love life.