September 22

Better Than News

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  At the Mountains of Madness is a 1933 American pre-Code musical horror film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley.

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  The Baywatch Revolutions is an American dystopian drama television series about virtual lifeguards who patrol the simulated beaches of Los Angeles County, California, and Hawaii.

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  The Silence of the Lions is an animated musical coming-of-age psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme, Roger Allers, and Rob Minkoff, starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and James Earl Jones.

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  Barefoot in Havana is an American romantic comedy thriller film about an uptight lawyer with a gambling problem (Robert Redford) who meet a free-spirited political activist (Jane Fonda) in Havana, Cuba on the eve of the Cuban Revolution.

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  Run Soylent, Run Green is an American science fiction war film starring Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Charlton Heston.

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  Men Only Want Ten Things is a 1979 American romantic coming-of-age film starring Bo Derek and Sam J. Jones.

Beyond Plausible

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  Red Spot Travel Agency is an exoplanetary retailer that provides travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.

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  The Last Man in the Matrix is a 1964 dystopian science fiction film about a man who wakes up to find that he is the only survivor from the Matrix Age.

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  Vitrified Man is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490, which is embedded in radioactive glass inside a protective metal case.

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  Ruin a first date in seven words or less.

In Other Words

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  First In, First Out is a classic treatise on queuing theory which emphasizes the effect of ethanol on gnomon algorithm theorists.

Are You Sure

A nomogram (from Greek νόμος nomos, "law" and γραμμή grammē, "line"), also called a nomograph, alignment chart or abaque, is a graphical calculating device, a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a mathematical function.

• ... that engineer and mathematician Philbert Maurice d'Ocagne invented the nomograph, a chart for the computation of algebraic equations?

• ... that physician and researcher Alice Hamilton was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer of industrial toxicology; and that Hamilton was also a social-welfare reformer, humanitarian, peace activist, and a resident-volunteer at Hull House in Chicago?

• ... that mathematician Shoshichi Kobayashi studied Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras?

• ... that Dennis Paulson of Mars trained for his historic reality television show by reviewing data from the 2015 MAVEN probe concerning the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere due to solar storms — a loss of atmosphere to space which likely played a key role in Mars' gradual shift from its carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere to the cold, arid planet seen today?

Topic of the Day

Food and Beverages

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  Cronenburger is a Canadian-American extreme body modification restaurant chain inspired by David Cronenberg's 1981 film Scanners.

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  The Tacoverse is a transdimensional corporation which functions as a pocket universe constructed entirely from tacos.

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  Not Milk? (stylized as not milk?) is an advertising campaign encouraging the non-consumption of milk by Bronze-age warriors.

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  Devil 2: Elevator Smells is a 2022 supernatural foodie horror film about five food critics (one of whom may be Chef Ramsay) trapped in an elevator.