March 10

Ursa Nano.

Better Than News

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  Tropic of Kandor is a Superman story written by Henry Miller. It is Miller's only known work in the American superhero genre.

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  Ace Neptune, Sub Detective is a comedy action-adventure film starring Jim Carrey and Jacques Cousteau.

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  Flow My Androids, The Shepherd Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state reality television series. The story follows genetically enhanced police officer Felix Buckman, who wakes up in a world where he has never existed.

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  "L'eggs all the way down" is a of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace. The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.

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  If I am further out there than other men, it is because I have fallen from the shoulders of angels.

Are You Sure

• ... biologist and physician Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 29 November 1694) discovered (via microscopy) that invertebrates do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called tracheae; and that his study of plants led him to conclude that plants had tubules similar to those he saw in insects like the silk worm (using his microscope, he probably saw the stomata, through which plants exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen)?

• ... that Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1628: Physician and biologist Marcello Malpighi born. Malpighi will make pioneering contributions to anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, and microscopy.

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  1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

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  1923: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch born. Fitch will share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proves that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).

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  1961: Author, artist, and raconteur Karl Jones born. Jones will compile the Gnomon Chronicles, a work of fiction and non-fiction, fact and fantasy.

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  2006: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

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  2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arriving at Mars.

Topic of the Day

Karl Gregory Jones

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  2019: Self-portrait wearing red and green Christmas lights.

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  Karl Jones and American Gothic, December 2014. Photo by Earl Baker.

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  If I have Tweeted further than others
  It is because I have Quote Posted
  from the shoulders of Giants.

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  Karl Jones in demon costume (Halloween 2009) is not actually possessed.