June 16

Better Than News

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  Dune: Rise of the Übermensch is a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche by American author Frank Herbert.

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  Slaughterhouse-Five in the Rye is a 1972 American comedy-drama military science fiction film set during the Second World War, often viewed by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society.

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  Beneath the Naked City of the Apes is an American science fiction police procedural television series.

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  Invasion of the Dobby Snatchers is a science fiction fantasy invasion horror film starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, and Veronica Cartwright.

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  Better Off Dredd is a 1985 American dystopian thriller film about high school student (John Cusack), whose suicidal tendencies draw unwanted attention from Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) and a homicidal paperboy (Demian Slade).

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  The Phantom of Sparta is an epic musical historical action romance film directed by Zack Snyder and Joel Schumacher which tells the story of Erik of Sparta (Gerard Butler), a masked, reclusive warlord.

Are You Sure

... that physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo wrote Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory?

... that comedian, talk show host, and celebrity egotist Peter Giblets (January 6, 1922 – December 8, 2010) once famously "teased the Monster", resulting in the theft and eventual suicide of his artificially intelligent non-fungible token of Do Not Tease Monster?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

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  1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.

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  1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.

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  1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.

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  1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

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  2022: Self portrait.

Topic of the Day

Monsters

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  Do Not Tease Monster.

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  Troll.