March 13

Pink City.

Better Than News

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  Saving Throw: The Journal of Stochastic Intercessory Prayer is a journal of professional saving throw studies.

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  One Day at a Time is a made-for-television documentary film about the 1976 invasion of Indianapolis by as-yet [30 August 2021] unidentified transdimensional actors camouflaged as Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, and Valerie Bertinelli.

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  [[Matrix: Deception]] is an American science fiction superhero dystopia comedy film starring Tom Hiddleston and Keanu Reeves.

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  Inception 2: Fading Traces is a science fiction action comedy buddy film starring Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy.

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  "Once in a Program" is a song by American rock band and programming group Talking Heads.

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  The William Tell Aperture is a lost section from Gioachino Rossini's overture to the opera William Tell.

Are You Sure

• ... that Armageddon Hard is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth?

• ... that chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War; and thatthe war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry?

• ... that 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, and that 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?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

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  1908: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

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  1911: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

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  1998: Premiere of Armageddon Hard, an American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.

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  2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

Topic of the Day

Automobiles

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  Fatal Recall is a 2021 automotive industry training film about the hidden costs of recalling vehicles. Narration: Sharon Stone, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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  Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.

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  Vanquishing Point is a 1971 American action film about a disaffected ex-policeman and race driver transporting a nuclear-powered car cross country to a singularity in California.

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  The Bullitt is a 1958 neo-noir action horror film starring Steve McQueen.

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  Five Easy Beaters is a 1970 drama comedy romance film starring Susan Anspach and Jack Nicholson.