December 7

Better Than News

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  I, Marta is a biographical drama film about Marta, a slave girl held prisoner on Elba II.

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  Alien: The Garfield Years is and animated comedy science fiction horror television series about Garfield, a lazy, fat, and cynical orange persian/tabby cat who plays host to an aggressive alien parasite named John.

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  Quilted Northern Luxury Tea is a brand of quilted tea bags on a roll.

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  If only we'd conceded Scandinavia to the Neanderthals is a political slogan associated with the irredentist Polar Repatriation League (PRL).

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  Mr. Gentleman European Soccer is a brand of Association football sold in the United States.

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  Unicorn Dundee is a 1986 fantasy action zoology film starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

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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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  Cretaceous Twitter is a time travel research project which extends Twitter into the Cretaceous period.

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  Our Armadillidiidae Overlords is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which disguises itself as One Two Three ... Infinity by George Gamow.

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  Silent Dining is an environmental-themed American post-apocalyptic science fiction theme restaurant franchise.

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  Coincidence on demand as a service (CODAAS) is a causality management standard adopted by APTO in May 2022.

In Other Words

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  This is your brain on transporter malfunctions is a public interest campaign intended to raise awareness of neurological injuries caused by transporter malfunctions.

Are You Sure

... that astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (10 May 1900 – 7 December 1979) established, in her doctoral thesis, that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe?

Selected Anniversaries

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  903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.

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  1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.

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  1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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  1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.

Topic of the Day

Dune

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  Cocaine Baron is a 2023 science fiction horror film starring Stellan Skarsgård as a ruthless drug lord who goes on a cocaine-and-melange fueled rampage.

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  Thumper King is an international chain of spiced hamburger fast food restaurants.

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  Frank Herbert's Groot is a children's adventure book by Frank Herbert which combines elements of his June (credited to Frank Herbert 1.1 "as told to OrbGazer") and the character Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.

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  James Cameron's Dune is a science fiction adventure film directed by James Cameron based on Frank Herbert's novel Dune about the planet Avatar, the only source of Unobtanium, the spice which enables interstellar travel.

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  Harkonnen is a science fiction heist film starring Burgess Meredith as a ruthless interplanetary crime boss.