December 4

Better Than News

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  I Snow What You Did Last Shiver is a 1997 American action-adventure film about four young friends who must survive winter hardship one year after covering up a car accident in which a man froze to death.

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  The Gnomon Chroniclies is a psychological thriller adventure film about a man who believes that he may be experiencing time travel events. It is loosely based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Pan Daemonium.

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  Dune: House Wonka is a science fiction musical fantasy film based on the novel of the same name by Frank Herbert and Roald Dahl.

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  "Paint It Black, White Rabbit" is a song by the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane.

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  Tucker Carlson, Mammoth Hunter is an American comedy television series about a lost time-traveler (Tucker Carlson) must persuade a wooly mammoth to vote for Donald Trump. Co-starring Donald Trump Jr. as Wooly the wooly mammoth.

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  The Six Million Dollar Tweet is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, who is rebuilt with superhuman social media proficiency due to bionic implants and is employed as a secret influencer by a fictional transdimensional corporation.

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  "Static Mat" is a song by Yup from their album Obdurate.

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  The Secret Diary of Jay Gatsby, Aged 13¾ is a dramatic coming-of-age comedy novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Susan Townsend.

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  Jeremiah Gatsby is an American drama film which tells the tragic story of Jeremiah Gatsby (Robert Redford), a self-made millionaire, and his grief over Swan (Delle Bolton), a young Indian woman whom he loved in his youth as a mountain man.

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist John Tyndall (2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air; and that Tyndall died of an accidental overdose of chloral hydrate, to which he was addicted?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.

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  1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.

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  1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of accidental chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.

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  1969: Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated.

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  1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).

Topic of the Day

Westerns

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  "Censor of the Gun" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

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  Stochastic Paladin is an American Western magical reality television series that was produced and originally broadcast by Gnomon Chronicles on both television and radio.