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December 31

Better Than News

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  Time Alone is a science fiction action-thriller comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and Rian Johnson, and starring Pierce Gagnon and Macaulay Culkin.

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  I Got Spaces I got spaces / I got vectors / I got metrics / Who could ask for anything more?"

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  Office Matrix is a science fiction comedy-action dystopian romance film directed by Mike Judge and The Wachowskis, and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Aniston, Ron Livingston, and Carrie-Anne Moss.

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  The Limousines paradox (often expressed as How many limousines make up a heap?) is a paradox that results from vague predicates.

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  Mortal Kombat: Arabian Knights is an epic biographical adventure drama fighting video game starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif.

Beyond Plausible

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  Jungle Book: Kama Sutra Nights is an American animated erotic musical adventure film loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "The White Man's Burden".

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  A Star is Dying is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film a young singer (Barbra Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a dying dancer, choreographer and director (Roy Scheider).

In Other Words

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  The Dyson Sphere War is an ongoing military and paradigmatic conflict between Earth-based civilizations and Dyson sphere civilizations.

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  Willy Wonka and the Nostalgia Factory is an American drama buddy film about two eccentric billionaires (Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp) who cannot agree on a worthy heir to their chocolate factory.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes' pioneering work on the analytic theory of continued fractions was an important early step towards the theory of Hilbert spaces?

• ... that Episcopal priest Hannibal Goodwin invented and patented a method for making rolled photographic film because he wanted a clear, non-breakable substance on which he could place the images he utilized in his Biblical teachings?

• ... that the reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars was the first manned interplanetary mission funded entire by social media campaigns?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

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  1679: Physiologist, physicist, and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli dies. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.

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  1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.

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  1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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  1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

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  1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.

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  1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

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  2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).

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  2016: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.

Topic of the Day

Death

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  Death is not an illusion. It happens in time, where the life is.

Interview

INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.

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