November 3

Better Than News

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  "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Huckleberry?" is a song by Louis Jordan and Val Kilmer.

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  "The way the Sixties are going, the Fifties are going the make the Forties feel like the Thirties!"

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  "Bridge Under Troubled Water" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel 1.1 about global climate change and sea level rise.

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  Dye Another Gray is a 2002 spy film which follows James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) as he attempts to stop a deranged hair stylist (John Waters) from releasing a conditioner which turns hair prematurely gray.

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  Dr. Robber is a song by the British rock group The Burgles.

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  "The Seventies Within"— A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into Carly Simon and Farrah Fawcett. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)

Beyond Plausible

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  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress but You Like It Rough is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Heinlein about a lunar colony's sexual abstinence revolt against absentee rule from Earth men.

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  On R.U.S. Pond is an 1980s-era romantic fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, and Fred Savage.

In Other Words

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  Face/Armor is a 1997 romantic drama film starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as celebrity psychologists whose growing rivalry tests their friendship.

Are You Sure

• ... that astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin (12 June 1577 – 3 November 1643) discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution?

Topic of the Day

Non-Fungible Tokens

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  "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My NFT" is a song by the English rock band the NFTeatles.

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  18NFT is a board games that recreates the building of non-fungible token corporations during the 19th century.