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Latest revision as of 08:34, 25 September 2024
Better Than News
West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.
Lost in Altered Spaces is a science fiction horror-adventure film directed by Ken Russell and Stephen Hopkins, starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Gary Oldman, and Mimi Rogers.
Young Destination: Final Guns is an American supernatural western film loosely based on the adventures of Devon the Kid during the Volée Airlines Flight 180 War.
Imperial Pancakes is a brand of pancakes from Grand Chef Tarkin.
Martian Pink-Slip is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
"Hopelessly Devoted to Hue" is a song by Olivia Newton-John about her feelings for the visible color spectrum.
Beyond Plausible
Waco Barbie is a fantasy thriller film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It is loosely based on the 1993 Waco siege.
The Poseidon Connection is a neo-noir crime action disaster film directed by William Friedkin and Irwin Allen.
In Other Words
Do Not Try and Drink the Spoon is a 1999 science fiction comedy film about a Starbuck's barista (Keanu Reeves) who begins to question reality.
Cocaine Bear 2: The Way of Powder is a 2023 science fiction horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks and James Cameron.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space?
• ... that Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (1939–2017) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the Soviet nuclear false alarm incident on 26 November 1983?
Selected Anniversaries
1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.
Topic of the Day
Shredding Machines
Quantum of Sawdust is a 2008 British spy film about an MI6 quartermaster (Daniel Craig) who must stop a document shredding corporation from stealing the Strategic Pulp Reserve at Fort Knox.