October 15

Better Than News

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  The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L. is an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring.

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  Quiz of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural education film, about a group of quantum physics students in Los Angeles who are asked to assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient cylinder of liquid discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of Education.

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  Planet of the Aliens is a science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin Schaffner and Ridley Scott, starring Charlton Heston and Sigourney Weaver.

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  Blade Shiner is a comedy buddy film about an emotionally troubled drifter (Jack Nicholson) who befriends a memory-challenged billionaire (Joe Turkel) who pretends to be a bartender in his own luxury hotel.

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  Dinkley & Roth is a comedy television series starring Velma Dinkley and David Lee Roth.

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  The Bell Jar in the Woods is the only horror film written and directed by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.

Beyond Plausible

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  Columbo & Wife is an American police detective television series starring Peter Falk and Susan St. James.

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  "Chip Chip Cher-ee" is a song from the film Mary Chippers.

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  The Fabulous Eastwick Boys is a neo-noir drama comedy romance film starring Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, and Jack Nicholson.

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  Wick Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed by John Wick for close-quarters combat.

In Other Words

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  An Affair to Dismember is a 1957 American romance comedy-horror film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

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  The Man From D.U.S.T.B.O.W.L. is a historical drama spy psychological thriller television series written and directed by Ken Burns and starring David McCallum.

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  Headstone Pizza is a manufacturer of pizzas and accompanying custom headstones.

Are You Sure

• ... that H. L. Hunley, often referred to as Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War; that Hunley was the first combat submarine to sink a warship, although Hunley was not completely submerged and, following her successful attack, was lost along with her crew before she could return to base; that the Confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of Hunley during her short career, and that the ship's designer, Horace Hunley, died during the second sinking?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.

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  1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.

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  1894: The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.

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  1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of Georg Cantor.

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  2015: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

Topic of the Day

Light

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  Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule is a best-selling bioautography by an anonymous chlorophyll molecule.

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  "Another Trick of the Light" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's alleged lost 1979 rock opera The Light, allegedly written by [REDACTED].

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  Spectrum is an action-physics film starring Sir Isaac Newton and Daniel Craig.

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  The Bioluminescent Hair Club for Anyone (formerly Bioluminescent Hair Club for Humans, also Bioluminescent Hair for Female and Male and Intersex Humans) is a world-wide bioluminescent hair restoration, bioluminescent hair regrowth, and bioluminescent hair replacement service with locations throughout the mid-twentieth to late-twenty-first century Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.