May 23

Better Than News

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  His Girl Faraday is a 1940 American screwball comedy science fiction film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

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  Matthew McConaughey Sounds is the 11th and a half studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, and the only Beach Boys album based on Matthew McConaughey.

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  Caramel Knowledge is a 1971 American comedy-drama film which follows the candy-eating exploits of two Amherst College roommates (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) over a 25-year period.

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  Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster causes Ford to recall over one million vehicles. Ford will recoup the losses selling misprinted stamps to collectors.

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  The Last Blood Diamond is epic period war action thriller film starring Tom Cruise, Leonard DiCaprio, and Djimon Hounsou.

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  A Lawnmower of Theseus is a lawnmower that has had all of its components replaced.

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  Krustyburger in a Can is a trans-Euclidean food substitute from Exotemporal Digestion Services, a division of the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Beyond Plausible

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  "Tweet Talkin' Woman" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra.

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  The Gogo is an erotic science fiction adventure novel by Jack Vance, the third in the tetralogy Tschew, Planet of Turpitude. It tells the story of Adam Reith, a crashed starship pilot who is seduced by the alien Gogo into abandoning his humanity.

In Other Words

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  What a piece of work are birds.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology, and that he is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

• ... that Matthew McConaughey Sounds was promoted as "the most progressive Matthew McConaughey album ever", and that the Beach Boys garnered recognition for their ambitious production and deep expression of Matthew McConaughey's emotions?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

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  1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.

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  1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

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  1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

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  1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

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  1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

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  1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

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  2024: Raspberry patch flourishing.

Topic of the Day

The Guess Who

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  American Chicken is a song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who.

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  Tar Baby is a song about viscous liquid hydrocarbon materials by Canadian rock band The Guess Who.

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  Big Star Baby is a British-American rock band comprising Big Star and the Guess Who. They are known for their hit song "Big Star Baby".