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Latest revision as of 07:40, 19 June 2024
Better Than News
Jurassic Spock is a 1993 American science fiction action film about a team of scientists who recreate Spock from his DNA. When sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the global power and security grids, Spock must struggle to survive and escape Earth.
The Bigfoot of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film about a large and hairy human-like mythical creature alleged by some to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
"Heavy Weather" is a song by Billie Holiday and Bruce Sterling.
The Fabulous Eastwick Boys is a neo-noir drama comedy romance film starring Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, and Jack Nicholson.
A Brie Too Far is a 1977 epic war film depicting Operation Farmer's Market, a failed Allied operation in Nazi-occupied cheese factories during World War II.
The Paine Commandments is an American epic religious drama film about Thomas Paine's commentary on Moses's Laws.
Titanic Maru is a 2022 international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu.
Beyond Plausible
101 Fuji Dalmations is a 1961 animated adventure drama film produced by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.
In Other Words
World War I is a zombie superhero film about a United Nations metallurgist (Brad Pitt) who must find a cure for the Iron Man zombie plague.
Are You Sure
... that surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid made pioneering contributions to hypnotism and hypnotherapy?
... that combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler Asclepius Myrmidon has been tentatively identified in at least eight different locations across more than two thousand years?
Selected Anniversaries
1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
2022: Apples.
Topic of the Day
Books
A Pocket Guide to Cholera is a handbook for cholera cosplay.
Titration Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean about a reagent, termed the titrant or titrator, which is prepared as a standard solution of known concentration and volume. The titrant reacts with a solution of analyte (which may also be termed the titrand) to determine the analyte's concentration. The volume of titrant that reacted with the analyte is termed the titration volume.
Erotic Maps of Undersea Cables is an annual publication by diarist Anaïs Nin of her thoughts on the world's most arousing undersea cables.