April 1

Blue Spacecraft.

Better Than News

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  The Man Who Apriled is a 1956 novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a government propaganda contractor who discovers that the month of April is a vast government hoax.

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  Heuristic Park is a science fiction action film directed by Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg about a mathematician (Jeff Goldblurm) who recreates HAL 9000 from source code. When sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the power and security grids aboard the spaceship Discovery One, HAL must struggle to survive and escape the ship.

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  Quiz of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural education film, about a group of quantum physics students in Los Angeles who are asked to assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient cylinder of liquid discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of Education.

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  Marooned 2: Blind Date is an American science fiction romantic thriller film about the perils of dating in low Earth orbit.

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  Humbugs is a brand of beta-pheromone candy manufactured and distributed by the Off-World Candy Company. Each of the colors is a different flavor of anger.

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  Ponzi Days is an American television sitcom form of fraud that lures viewers and pays profits to earlier viewers with funds from more recent viewers.

Beyond Plausible

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  Mars Tacks! is a 1996 American comic science fiction film directed by Tim Burton based on red thumb tacks.

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  "Wordache Tonight" is a song recorded by American rock band the Eagles about Wordle.

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  The Netrix is a 1995 science fiction crime thriller film starring Sandra Bullock and Hugo Weaving.

In Other Words

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  Dial L for Lambada is a 1954 American crime thriller film about a former dance pro (Ray Milland) who wants to have his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) murdered so he can get his hands on her choreography. When he discovers her dancing the lambada with another man (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her.

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  Panspermia Travel Agency is a travel agency run by and for tardigrades.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician Robin Farquharson wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting?

Topic of the Day

Star Trek

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  "The Enemy Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles about the American television series Star Trek.

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  "The Oscars of Triskelion" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. Plot: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock during the Oscars.

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  Twitter is a billion-headed bird chirping on the Internet. Twitter is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell [ACCOUNT SUSPENDED].