November 28

Better Than News

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  Gilligan's Matrix is a science-fiction drama television series with follows the agonies of seven artificial intelligences as they attempt to survive on a simulated virtual desert island on which their data structures are corrupted.

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  Buttery Toppings of the Caribbean is an American swashbuckler foodie film starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Orville Redenbacher. It is set in a fictionalized version of the Golden Age of Artificial Popcorn Toppings (circa 1965-1995).

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  "Spock Invaders" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

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  It Ripened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball horticulture about a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish gardener (Clark Gable).

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  Dharma-Laden Duo is a documentary film about the making of the film Harold and Maude starring Angelina Jolie and Jack Kerouac.

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  "Louvre Hurts" is a song by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.

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  The Blaking of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film about a group of four heavily armed criminals who stage a William Blake exhibition on a New York City subway car.

Beyond Plausible

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  Jack LaLanne's Naval Exercises is a self-improvement book by fitness and nutrition advocate Jack Lalanne, and an accompanying motion picture starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin.

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  Nimrod Ichneumon, Parasite Hunter is a superhero entomology television series about a team of entomologists who hunt down and curb the vigor of the world's most prolific and troublesome parasite populations.

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  Hey Skinny is a line of self-help cartoon publications.

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  The Lottery 2: Revenge of the Quants is an American psychological financial horror film loosely based on the short story of the same name by Shirley Jackson.

In Other Words

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  Deep Wicker Man is a horror adventure film about a treasure-hunting couple who discover an ancient evil while scuba diving off the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle.

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  "Me and the Void" is a song by American rock band and astrophysics consulting group Nebular Region Blueshift Quartet.

Are You Sure

• ... that polymath Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 28 November 1680) published some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine?

Topic of the Day

Batman

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  Taxi Joker is an historical American drama film about taxi drivers coping with clown violence on the job.

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  The Dark Nurse is a 2021 superhero medical drama film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged nurse who spreads deadly misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.