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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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== Beyond Plausible ==
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== In Other Words ==
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== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
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== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


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Latest revision as of 15:08, 19 February 2023

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Better Than News

  • Birdman 2: Escape from Alcatraz is an American black comedy-drama biographical film directed by John Frankenheimer and Alejandro Iñárritu, starring Burt Lancaster and Michael Keaton.

    Birdman 2: Escape from Alcatraz is an American black comedy-drama biographical film directed by John Frankenheimer and Alejandro Iñárritu, starring Burt Lancaster and Michael Keaton.

  • The One-Time Pad and How to Use It is a 1966 comedy-cryptography film about a shy bachelor (Brian Bedford) asks his best friend (James Tarentino) to keep him company during his first date in his apartment with the girl he met at a cryptography conference and fell in love with.

    The One-Time Pad and How to Use It is a 1966 comedy-cryptography film about a shy bachelor (Brian Bedford) asks his best friend (James Tarentino) to keep him company during his first date in his apartment with the girl he met at a cryptography conference and fell in love with.

  • Forced Perspective is an optical illusion comedy-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

    Forced Perspective is an optical illusion comedy-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

  • Playskool's My First Nuclear Football an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.

    Playskool's My First Nuclear Football an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.

  • "Many are small but few are bosons" is a popular catch-phrase in high energy physics.

    "Many are small but few are bosons" is a popular catch-phrase in high energy physics.

  • Matrix of Theseus is a 1999 dystopian science fiction philosophy lecture narrated by Keanu Reeves.

    Matrix of Theseus is a 1999 dystopian science fiction philosophy lecture narrated by Keanu Reeves.

  • Someone Left Robert Goulet Out In the Rain is a short documentary film about the song MacArthur Park.

    Someone Left Robert Goulet Out In the Rain is a short documentary film about the song MacArthur Park.

Beyond Plausible

  • Frankenstein is a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, the first in her Mary Shelley Mystery Series.

    Frankenstein is a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, the first in her Mary Shelley Mystery Series.

  • Prince of Seltzer is an American science fiction horror-comedy film starring the Three Stooges and directed by John Carpenter.

    Prince of Seltzer is an American science fiction horror-comedy film starring the Three Stooges and directed by John Carpenter.

  • How to Marry a Vermillionaire is a 1953 American romantic color theory film about a trio of money hungry chromatographers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, planning to use the apartment to attract rich investors and corner the market on the color red.

    How to Marry a Vermillionaire is a 1953 American romantic color theory film about a trio of money hungry chromatographers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, planning to use the apartment to attract rich investors and corner the market on the color red.

  • The Old Couple is an American sitcom television series starring Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison.

    The Old Couple is an American sitcom television series starring Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison.

In Other Words

  • Squash is a psychological horror film about a small-town mayor dressed as a squash who traps a Hollywood plastic surgeon in a maze of sadistic vegetable games.

    Squash is a psychological horror film about a small-town mayor dressed as a squash who traps a Hollywood plastic surgeon in a maze of sadistic vegetable games.

  • "Jell-O Submarine" is a song by the British rock group and catering group The Beatles.

    "Jell-O Submarine" is a song by the British rock group and catering group The Beatles.

Are You Sure

• ... that chemist and academic Otto Hahn pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission; and that after World War II, Hahn became a passionate campaigner against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon?

• ... that Bane Capital is a legal thriller film about a renegade aerospace engineer (Tom Hardy) who blackmails Gotham City into issuing municipal bonds for the upgrade of aging runways at Gotham City International Airport?

Topic of the Day

Personal hygiene

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