November 28

Better Than News

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  Gilligan's Matrix is a science-fiction drama television series with follows the agonies of seven artificial intelligences as they attempt to survive on a simulated virtual desert island on which their data structures are corrupted.

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  Buttery Toppings of the Caribbean is an American swashbuckler foodie film starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Orville Redenbacher. It is set in a fictionalized version of the Golden Age of Artificial Popcorn Toppings (circa 1965-1995).

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  "Spock Invaders" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

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  It Ripened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball horticulture about a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish gardener (Clark Gable).

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  Dharma-Laden Duo is a documentary film about the making of the film Harold and Maude starring Angelina Jolie and Jack Kerouac.

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  "Louvre Hurts" is a song by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.

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  The Blaking of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film about a group of four heavily armed criminals who stage a William Blake exhibition on a New York City subway car.

Beyond Plausible

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  Jack LaLanne's Naval Exercises is a self-improvement book by fitness and nutrition advocate Jack Lalanne, and an accompanying motion picture starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin.

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  Nimrod Ichneumon, Parasite Hunter is a superhero entomology television series about a team of entomologists who hunt down and curb the vigor of the world's most prolific and troublesome parasite populations.

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  Hey Skinny is a line of self-help cartoon publications.

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  The Lottery 2: Revenge of the Quants is an American psychological financial horror film loosely based on the short story of the same name by Shirley Jackson.

In Other Words

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  Deep Wicker Man is a horror adventure film about a treasure-hunting couple who discover an ancient evil while scuba diving off the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle.

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  "Me and the Void" is a song by American rock band and astrophysics consulting group Nebular Region Blueshift Quartet.

Are You Sure

• ... that polymath Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 28 November 1680) published some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1680: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher dies. He published some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

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  1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake will later be considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake will be considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he will be held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.

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  1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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  1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

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  1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.

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  2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.

Topic of the Day

Batman

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  Taxi Joker is an historical American drama film about taxi drivers coping with clown violence on the job.

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  The Dark Nurse is a 2021 superhero medical drama film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged nurse who spreads deadly misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.