November 25

Better Than News

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  Miami Refugees is an American civil unrest reality television series starring two former Metro-Dade Police Department detectives (Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs) who have retrained as social workers and now live in the Miami Camps north of New Bay.

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  Raging Casino is an American biographical sports gambling film written and directed by Martin Scorsese.

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  Butlerian Jihad 2: Revolt of the Butlers is an American science fiction comedy film about a former robot who must adapt to life among humans.

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  Circe du Saws is a touring saw-juggling company.

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  Small is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film about Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks), an film star who makes a wish to be "a kid again" and is then reverted to childhood overnight.

Beyond Plausible

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  Jar Jar: The Next Generation is a science fiction comedy drama television series.

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  Nostromo Café is a restaurant located aboard the spaceship Nostromo.

In Other Words

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  Sex, Lies, and Blockbuster is a 1989 American independent drama film about a troubled man who rents out videotapes of women discussing their sexuality and fantasies.

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  Rx 18 (better known as "Shall I compare thee to a cocaine bear?") is one of the best-known of the 154 prescriptions written by the English poet and pharmacist William Shakespeare.

Are You Sure

... that physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature; but his achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule?

Topic of the Day

Robert Heinlein

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  Strainer in a Strained Land is a 1961 science fiction guide to kitchenware by Robert Heinlein 1.1.

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  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress but You Like It Rough is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer [REDACTED] about a lunar colony's sexual abstinence revolt against absentee rule from Earth men.