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Latest revision as of 16:22, 7 June 2024
Better Than News
The Last Temptation of Constantine is an epic religious superhero horror film directed by Martin Scorsese and Francis Lawrence, starring Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, and Tilda Swinton.
Buttery Toppings of the Caribbean is an American swashbuckler foodie film starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Orville Redenbacher. It is set in a fictionalized version of the Golden Age of Artificial Popcorn Toppings (circa 1965-1995).
John Wick: Alea Iacta Est is an American action gaming film starring Keanu Reeves as John Wick, a legendary Dungeons & Dragons player who comes out of retirement to seek revenge against the dungeon master who stole his twenty-sider, a final gift from his recently deceased wife.
Natural Born U.S. Marshals is romantic crime action film directed by Oliver Stone and Stuart Baird, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Juliette Lewis.
Tintinitus is the perception of Tintin when no actual external Tintin is present.
Beyond Plausible
Full Petal Jacket is a 1987 war drama film about two Marine Corps florists who struggle under their abusive drill instructor, and the experience of combat floristry during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
Hammocks for Humanity is a documentary television series hosted by Jimmy Carter and Hank Scorpio.
In Other Words
To Kill a Clown 2: Rise of Pazuzu is a religious psychological horror film set in ancient Mesopotamia, starring Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, and Heath Lamberts.
Cite Baudrillard or Die is the debut album by American crossover thrash philosophy group Shatterproof Doom Rest.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī made important innovations in spherical trigonometry; that his work on arithmetics for businessmen contains the first instance of using negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text?
Selected Anniversaries
940: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī born. His Almagest will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1793: French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1836: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
1909: Aerospace engineer and weapons designer Ludwig Roth born. During World War II, Roth will head Germany's Future Projects Office, which will design the Wasserfall and rockets such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth will then be recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip.
1972: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Topic of the Day
Tardigrades
Panspermia Travel Agency is a travel agency run by and for tardigrades.
"Tardigrades Sing For Enya": an album of the music of Enya arranged and performed by tardigrades.
Tardigrade spacecraft are any of various types of spacecraft occupied by tardigrades. This image from the aft berth compartment shows a scan-view of a passenger in its characteristic "cabbage pod" space suit.
Twittergrades is a 2022 book about how Twitter's work policies stimulated the evolution of new species of tardigrades.