August 15

Better Than News

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  12 Angry Exorcists is an American supernatural legal drama film directed by William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet, and starring Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb.

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  For a Few Bitcoins More is a 1965 Spaghetti NFT Western film about a cryptocurrency bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) and a hunchbacked software developer (Klaus Kinski) who must work together to rob the Bitcoin Exchange of El Paso, which has a disguised wallet containing "almost a million Bitcoins."

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  Mandalorian Dog is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.

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  The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.

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  The Dark Blinders is a 2008 American superhero historical drama film about the Gotham Blinders, a British-American crime gang active in the period following the First World War.

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  Spice: 1999 is a science fiction television series starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. It is loosely based on the novel Destination: Spice by Frank Herbert.

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  There's a Kind of Hush / All Over the Dune / Tonight / All over the dune / You can't hear the sound / Of Fremen on sand / You know what I mean.

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  Summer of Saṃsāra is a 1999 American spiritual thriller film about the 1977 David Berkowitz (Son of Saṃsāra) serial mystical experiences and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx in the late 1970s.

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  Frybread the 13th is an independent foodie slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

Are You Sure

... that Weaponizing Spirograph is a short documentary film by acclaimed director [REDACTED] about the conversion of Spirograph from civilian to military use?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

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  1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

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  1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

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  1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

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  1979: Led Zeppelin releases"Olive My Love".

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  1922: Physicist Peter Mazur dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

Topic of the Day

Anathem

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  Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.

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  The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is an autonomous artificially intelligence film based on Grand Theft Anathem.

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  In Search of Anathem is an American television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy and Neal Stephenson which is devoted to monastic ratiocination and the search for a plurality of universes.