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Better Than News
The Silence of the Rose is a 1986 action-thriller film about a Franciscan friar-assassin (Sean Connery) who is called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
The Game 2 is an American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher and starring Jason Statham.
"Pictures of Scully" is a song by The Who about Agent Scully from the television series The X-Files.
Brief Encounters of the Third Kind is a British-American science fiction film about two strangers who have an affair during a UFO event.
Tales from the Crypto is an American horror-economics anthology television series about cryptocurrency.
Leprechaun: Emerald City is an American musical fantasy horror film about a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his yellow brick road.
Close Encounters of the Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror science fiction film about a vengeful alien leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his spaceship.
Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
Are You Sure
- ... that mathematician and computer scientist John Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1782: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli dies. Bernoulli is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1853: Physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler dies. Doppler proposed the principle (now known as the Doppler effect) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer. He used this concept to explain the color of binary stars.
2007: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus dies. Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax.
Topic of the Day
Defibrillators
The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.
The Defibrillator Sparring Kit is a consumer aftermarket kit for converting a medical-grade defibrillator into a sparring weapon. Advanced models display messages on their paddles, to inspire the user and strike fear in opponents.