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Better Than News

  • Erotic SETI is a collection of erotic short stories, essays, and poems by Anaïs Nin about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

    Erotic SETI is a collection of erotic short stories, essays, and poems by Anaïs Nin about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

  • The Salem orb trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of Orbcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

    The Salem orb trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of Orbcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

  • Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot. Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in a cave and forced us to tend the elephant. ("Tending Plato's Elephant")

    Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot. Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in a cave and forced us to tend the elephant. ("Tending Plato's Elephant")

  • Scotty's Place is a home improvement reality television series hosted by Montgomery Scott.

    Scotty's Place is a home improvement reality television series hosted by Montgomery Scott.

  • The Alien Team is an American science fiction action-horror television series about six former members of a fictitious United Humans Army Special Forces unit working as soldiers of fortune aboard the commercial space tug Nostromo.

    The Alien Team is an American science fiction action-horror television series about six former members of a fictitious United Humans Army Special Forces unit working as soldiers of fortune aboard the commercial space tug Nostromo.

  • Junc is a 2022 American science fiction film based on the television series Sanford and Son.

    Junc is a 2022 American science fiction film based on the television series Sanford and Son.

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

  • How Uncanny Was My Valley is a 1941 film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era. The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.

    How Uncanny Was My Valley is a 1941 film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era. The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.

Are You Sure

... that The Treachery of Substances is a short documentary film by René Magritte and Jerry Stiller.

Topic of the Day

Musicals

  • The Sound of Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film loosely based on the 1965 American musical drama film The Sound of Music.

    The Sound of Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film loosely based on the 1965 American musical drama film The Sound of Music.

  • Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.

    Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.

  • 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.

    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.

  • Heresy is a rock musical about the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics.

    Heresy is a rock musical about the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics.

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