August 23

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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.

Are You Sure

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

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

  • 1638: René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

    1638: René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

  • 1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

    1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

  • 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

    1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

  • 1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

    1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

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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