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Latest revision as of 08:04, 2 January 2025
Better Than News
A Swingin' Plan is an American neo-noir comedy buddy crime film directed by Doug Liman and Sam Raimi, and starring Jon Favreau, Bill Paxton, Vince Vaughn, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda.
Mechanics of the Caribbean is an American swashbuckler fantasy-thriller film directed by Simon West and Gore Verbinski, and starring Jason Statham and Bill Nighy.
Notting Hill Has Fallen is a romantic action-comedy thriller film starring Julia Roberts, Gerard Butler, and Hugh Grant.
Nine Fringes in Amber is an American science fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny. It was adapted for television J. J. Abrams in 2008.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Constantine is a 2008 fantasy superhero horror film about Caspian (Keanu Reeves), a dispossessed prince who strikes an uneasy bargain with the White Witch (Tilda Swinton).
Dr. Greenmoney is a dystopian science fiction thriller novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. It was adapted for film by Richard Fleischer in 1973.
An American in Peristalsis is a 1951 American musical biology film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Peristalsis by physiologist-musician George Gershwin. The story is interspersed with dance numbers which illustrate radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagates in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction, choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music.
Beyond Plausible
Hela's Place is a home repair television series hosted by Hela, goddess of the underworld.
In Other Words
"Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Androids" is a country science fiction song by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Yul Brynner.
Gray googly eyes is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating googly eye machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Kurt Gödel's first incompleteness theorem states that for any self-consistent recursive axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers (for example Peano arithmetic), there are true propositions about the naturals that cannot be proved from the axioms?
• ... that "Asking for a Friend" is a song by the Rolling Stones?
• ... that mathematicians Hugo Steinhaus, because of his Jewish background, spent the Nazi occupation of Poland in hiding; and that he taught clandestine classes, higher education being forbidden for Poles under the German occupation?
Selected Anniversaries
1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
Topic of the Day
Kirk Douglas
Flag So Trophy is an anagram of Paths of Glory.
Town Without Jetty is a 1961 American/Swiss/West German film about military engineer (Kirk Douglas) who, against his will, must bring about the destruction of a town's Port Authority.
"A Verdict in His Soul" is an anagram of "Issur Danielovitch" (better known as Kirk Douglas).