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Revision as of 06:54, 22 May 2024
Better Than News
His Girl Faraday is a 1940 American screwball comedy science fiction film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.
Matthew McConaughey Sounds is the 11th and a half studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, and the only Beach Boys album based on Matthew McConaughey.
Caramel Knowledge is a 1971 American comedy-drama film which follows the candy-eating exploits of two Amherst College roommates (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) over a 25-year period.
Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster causes Ford to recall over one million vehicles. Ford will recoup the losses selling misprinted stamps to collectors.
The Last Blood Diamond is epic period war action thriller film starring Tom Cruise, Leonard DiCaprio, and Djimon Hounsou.
A Lawnmower of Theseus is a lawnmower that has had all of its components replaced.
Krustyburger in a Can is a trans-Euclidean food substitute from Exotemporal Digestion Services, a division of the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Beyond Plausible
"Tweet Talkin' Woman" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra.
The Gogo is an erotic science fiction adventure novel by Jack Vance, the third in the tetralogy Tschew, Planet of Turpitude. It tells the story of Adam Reith, a crashed starship pilot who is seduced by the alien Gogo into abandoning his humanity.
In Other Words
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology, and that he is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
• ... that Matthew McConaughey Sounds was promoted as "the most progressive Matthew McConaughey album ever", and that the Beach Boys garnered recognition for their ambitious production and deep expression of Matthew McConaughey's emotions?
= Selected Anniversaries
1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
Topic of the Day
The Guess Who
American Chicken is a song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who.
Tar Baby is a song about viscous liquid hydrocarbon materials by Canadian rock band The Guess Who.
Big Star Baby is a British-American rock band comprising Big Star and the Guess Who. They are known for their hit song "Big Star Baby".