June 27

Better Than News

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  Indiana Jones and the Last Grilled Cheese Sandwich is an American action-adventure foodie film directed by Steven Spielberg about archaeologist Indiana Jones, who is searching for the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich.

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  Love, Mannequin Style is an anthology comedy television series. Each episode features a story of mannequin romance, usually with a comedic spin.

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  Gödel, Escher, Dick is an alleged user's manual for the Philip K. Dick android.

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  The Day the Gorp Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction foodie film about a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to deliver an important message about snack foods.

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  The Rocky Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic frozen confections film a father (Viggo Mortenson) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) seeking rocky road ice cream in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Beyond Plausible

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  Where's Pepper? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between a chef (George Segal) and his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with his seasonings.

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  Spice-Lord is a 2021 science fiction comedy film about a zoologist (Chris Pratt) who discovers a new species of worm which excretes a hallucinogenic drug.

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  Nostromo Cafe is a restaurant located aboard the spaceship Nostromo.

In Other Words

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  "Held Vast Unfortunate Hopes" is an anagram of "The Adventures Of Pluto Nash".

Are You Sure

... that mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange?

... that The Noel Harrison Sensation (or simply The Sensation) is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which actor Noel Harrison uses to project his sensorium, in order to experience opening nights of films by himself and his friends from novel perspectives; and that Harrison usually manifests The Sensation as a movie poster, although he occasionally manifests as a life-size cardboard figure of himself?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1806: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan born. De Morgan will formulate two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.

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  1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.

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  1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.

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  1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

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  2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).

Topic of the Day

Food

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  Tartrazzini is a transnational dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored bright green-yellow with tartrazine (nonfiction). Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.

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  They Live, We Eat is a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.