May 25

Better Than News

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  Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which 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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  Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.

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  Second illustration from the Codex Nanobotica.

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  Stranger Thighs is an American science fiction horror cooking television series about the residents of the fictional small town of Chickens, Indiana, as they are plagued by a hostile alternate dimension known as the Chefside Down.

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

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  Spice Wars is a 1977 American epic science fiction film about a young water farmer (Luke Spicewalker) who becomes involved in guerilla warfare against the CHOAM spice mining operation on Arrakis.

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  Viagra Tastee Tape is a food-grade adhesive tape containing an active dosage of sildenafil, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Beyond Plausible

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  1988: Premiere of Die Hardly a medical action film about a New York police pharmacologist (Bruce Willis) who is caught up in the takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper by a ruthless pharmaceutical manufacturer (Pfizer).

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  Gravity's Expendables is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon about a team of elite mercenaries tasked with stealing a Nazi secret weapon. It was adapted for a 2010 film starring Sylvester Stallone.

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  Parkour for Liberty is a transdimensional parkour competition held annually in 1884 Paris.

In Other Words

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  "The Memes are Alright" is a song by the British rock band The Who.

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  "Something Wicked In This Way She Moves" is a song by George Harrison and Ray Bradbury.

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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.

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  Can This Regex Be Saved? is a reality television program which challenges participants to save troubled regular expressions from self-destruction.

Are You Sure

• ... that George Lucas worked closely with Frank Herbert on the 1977 American epic science fiction film Spice Wars?

= Selected Anniversaries

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  986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.

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  1555: Physician, mathematician, and cartographer Gemma Frisius dies. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day, and applied mathematics to surveying and navigation in new ways.

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  1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.

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  1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

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  1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

Topic of the Day

Soylent Green

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  Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.

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  Soylent Greene is an American conspiracy horror documentary film about Marjorie Taylor Greene and gun overpopulation.