November 6

Better Than News

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  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.

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  Lucky Starr and the Hot Pockets of Jupiter is a young adult science fiction foodie novel by restaurateur and author Isaac Asimov.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Indiana Blunt and the Jungle of Weed is a stoner comedy adventure film starring Harrison Ford and Emily Blunt.

Beyond Plausible

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  The Adventure of the Powerful Pill is one of the alleged "lost adventures" of Sherlock Holmes, in which Holmes becomes habituated to Adderall.

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  "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.

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  Alien vs. Borg is a science fiction horror adventure film.

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  Dune is a 2022 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William Gibson and Frank Herbert.

In Other Words

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  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

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  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.

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  1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

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  1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

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  1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.

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  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

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  Kill Billions is a 2003 American nuclear war film starring Edward Teller and David Carradine.

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  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.

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  On the Beach Party is a 1959 beach party cautionary drama starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.

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  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.

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  Atomic Pumpkin Test is a punk band based in New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Red Phone Missile Command is a telecommunications provider and nuclear war management service.