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Revision as of 08:35, 22 February 2023
Better Than News
Beyond Lebowski is an American sports noir thriller film starring John Turturro.
Some Men Just Want to Watch Get Carter is a 2023 superhero crime documentary film narrated by Michael Caine.
Doctor Moonrise is an American coming-of-age comedy-horror film directed by Wes Anderson and Mike Flanagan.
Moonrise, Alaska is a comedy-travel film directed by Wes Anderson.
Beyond Plausible
On R.U.S. Pond is an 1980s-era romantic fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, and Fred Savage.
In Other Words
Peak Batman is the moment at which economically viable production of Batman intellectual property starts to decrease. It is related to the distinct concept of Batman depletion; while global intellect reserves are finite, the limiting factor is not whether the intellect exists but whether it will pay for Batman films, action figures, etc. at a given price.
Altered Carbon Paper is an American cyberpunk television series about a former soldier turned investigator (Joel Kinnaman) who is embedded in carbon paper in order to solve a murder.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and theologian Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) was known for his courage, and that he once saved the ship he was on from capture by pirates?
• ... that neutonianismo is a group of various folk dances characterized by a fast upbeat tempo, usually in 6/8 time (sometimes 12/8 or 4/4), accompanied by tambourines, related to the better known tarantella; and that tarantella's supposed association with dancing mania caused by spider bites is similar to neutonianismo's popular association with dancing mania caused by the physics of Sir Isaac Newton?
• ... that mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions (1928–2001) championed the application of mathematics in industry, with a particular involvement in the French space program, as well as in domains such as energy and the environment, and that he was the director of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) from 1984 to 1992?
• ... that wealthy Venetian polymath Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764) was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1736, and that while in London he became embroiled in a lively bisexual love-triangle with the politician John Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; and that Algarotti left England for Italy, where he finished Neutonianismo per le dame ("Newtonism for Ladies", 1737), a book written for women about Isaac Newton's work on optics, dedicated to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle?
Topic of the Day
Non-Fungible Tokens
The Token King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film about Simba (Swahili for lion), a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King of the Non-Fungible Lands; however, after Simba's paternal uncle Scar murders Mufasa to seize the NFT passwords, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile.
Dial N for NFTs is a 1954 American crime thriller film about decides to murder his wife for her NFTs and because she hacked his Tindr account the year before.
18NFT is a board games that recreates the building of non-fungible token corporations during the 19th century.
ScarNFTs is 1983 crime NFT film about Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in 1980s Miami and goes on to sell non-fungible tokens to a powerful drug lord.