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The lunatic I said you'd call The lunatic I said you'd call Remembering rings and Doctor Robert's laugh Got to be there any time at all

The lunatic will pick you up The lunatic will pick you up The paper hold he's folded everything he can Got to keep the loony's special cup

And if the dam breaks open for the National Health You shout and no one can succeed And if you must believe in everyone in need I'll see you pay the dark side of yourself

The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day, the paperboy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Ring, my friend I said you'd call Doctor Robert Day or night he'll be there any time at all Doctor Robert Doctor Robert You're a new and better man He helps you to understand He does everything he can Doctor Robert If you're down he'll pick you up Doctor Robert Take a drink from his special cup Doctor Robert Doctor Robert He's a man you must believe Helping anyone in need No one can succeed like Doctor Robert Well, well, well, you're feeling fine Well, well, well, he'll make you Doctor Robert My friend works for the National Health Doctor Robert Don't pay money just to see yourself Doctor Robert Doctor Robert Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Fresh content daily.

April 25

Better Than News

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  Spice Runner is 2021 action-cooking film about synthetic chefs known as replicants which are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Kitchens. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants escapes back to Caladan, burnt-out restauranteur Baron Harkonnen reluctantly agrees to taste-test their food..

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  Days of Leveling is a 1978 American romantic fantasy adventure film written and directed by Terrence Malick, and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, and Linda Manz.

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  A Few Good Algorithms is a 1992 American legal computational complexity drama film directed by Rob Reiner and Andrey Kolmogorov, starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon.

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  Mission: Impossible – The Master is an American psychological spy drama film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and J. J. Abrams, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Tom Cruise.

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  Five Easy Species is a 1970 American science fiction drama film starring Lorna Thayer and Jack Nicholson.

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  Donnie Fresco is a 1997 American art crime drama film directed by Mike Newell, and starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920) had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, yet he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable; that Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation; and that during his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations), including many completely novel and highly unconventional results, opening entire new areas of work and inspiring a vast amount of further research; and that nearly all of Ramanujan's theories have now been proven correct?

• ... that physicist and clergyman Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770) investigated electrospray, noting that water flowing from a vessel would aerosolize if the vessel was electrified and placed near electrical ground. He also noted that similarly "a person, electrified by connection to a high-voltage generator, would not bleed normally if he were to cut himself; blood would spray from the wound."?

• ... that the comedy food science film Pump Up the Jam is loosely based on actual attempts to make inflatable jam?

On This Day

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  1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

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  1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

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  1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

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  1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

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  1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

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  1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

Topic of the Day

Aliens

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  Midnight E.T. is an American science fiction drama film directed by John Schlesinger and Steven Spielberg.

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  Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film, written and directed by [REDACTED], starring [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]; and that the film tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.

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  Alien Gourmand is a talk show featuring non-human species discussing food and fine dining. Broadcast live from the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere, and available at a discreet yet convenient safe house near you.

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  Sonic vs Aliens: Dawn of Cartoon.

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  Along Comes E.T. is a musical science fiction film about a Sunshine Pop band (The Association) which must help a lost extraterrestrial creature return home.

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  One Day at a Time is a made-for-television documentary film about the 1976 invasion of Indianapolis by as-yet [30 August 2021] unidentified transdimensional actors camouflaged as Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, and Valerie Bertinelli.

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