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Revision as of 04:33, 18 March 2022
Better Than News
Terminator of the North is a science fiction drama film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lee Marvin.
Constantine: One More Thing is a supernatural crime drama superhero television series starring Peter Falk and Keanu Reeves.
What Price Eternity? is a science fiction drama film about a dying billionaire who travels the solar system in search of immortality.
You Should Have Six Degrees Left is a psychological parlor game thriller film starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
Vitrified Man is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490, which is embedded in radioactive glass inside a protective metal case.
The Dark Side of Doctor Robert is an an album by Pink Floyd and the Beatles.
Are You Sure
• ... that scientist and watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud was a determined experimenter, a skilled craftsman, and an inventor keen to pass on his knowledge; and that Berthoud not only contributed to the advance of watchmaking, but also promoted the use of precision clocks in the sciences of his day, thus contributing to progress in these various disciplines?
• ... Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. La Hire will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.
1727: Scientist and watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud born. Berthoud will serve as Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, leaving an exceptionally broad body of work, notable for excellent sea chronometers.
1871: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan dies. De Morgan formulated two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.
1927: Physicist, mathematician, and activist William C. Davidon born. Davidon will develop the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.
1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born. Plimpton will be famous for "participatory journalism": competing in professional sporting events, playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a circus trapeze act, and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
Topic of the Day
Dance
When You Wish Upon Astaire is a 2021 film about an aspiring entomology student (Fred Astaire) and his thesis advisor (Jiminy Cricket).
1972: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature in New Minneapolis, Canada.
The Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company debuts new work "Paleoglacial Sedimentary Particulate Deposit Patterns Reveal Evidence of Planetary Rotational Wobble".
Monumental Barkitecture is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.