November 7

Better Than News

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  A Clockwork Limey is a dystopian noir crime film starring Terence Stamp and Malcolm McDowell.

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  TwixtY is a two-player strategy board game where players alternate turns placing pegs and links on Swinging Sixties icon Twiggy in an attempt to link their opposite sides.

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  Jocasta is a 2019 psychological thriller family drama film starring Frances Conroy and Joaquin Phoenix.

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  Olive Matrix is a science-fiction theme restaurant franchise with indentured franchises throughout the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere. Olive Matrix. When you're here, you're virtual.

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  "We Built This Twitter" is a 1985 song by American rock band Startweet. It was released as their debut single on their album Retweet in the Hoopla.

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  Inside me there are two dogs fighting: Lambda calculus and e.e. cummings.

Beyond Plausible

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  Dune Another Day: James Bond must locate a mole in Atreides intelligence who betrayed him, and a Harkonnen billionaire who is later revealed to be connected to a Sardauker operative that Bond seemingly killed.

In Other Words

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  Bill and Ted's Radiological Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film about how Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high school nuclear physics presentation.

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  Milah Doctor is a 2003 film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to perform criminal circumcisions.

Are You Sure

• ... that philosopher and natural scientist Bernardino Telesio (7 November 1509 – 2 October 1588) proposed theories which were later disproven, but that his emphasis on observation anticipated the scientific method?

Topic of the Day

Dune

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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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  Dr. Spicelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bene Gesserit is a 1964 black comedy epic science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch. It is loosely based on the 1958 novel Family Atomics by Peter George and Frank Herbert.

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  The Amazing Spicer-Man is a 2012 American science drama film about a young Imperial ecologist (Timothée Chalamet) who gains spider-like powers after he is bitten by a giant sandworm.

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  The Litany against decaffeination (also known by its first sentence, I must not decaffeinate).

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  Freedom from Worms is one of the "Four Freedoms" paintings by C. Enroll Workman.