September 16
Better Than News
The Masked Singer is a Latverian reality singing competition television series hosted by Doctor Doom which features hideously scarred celebrities singing songs while wearing head-to-toe costumes and face masks concealing their identities.
The Last Temptation of Wile E. Coyote is a 1988 epic religious comedy-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese.
"Many are small but few are bosons" is a popular catch-phrase in high energy physics.
Tales from the Crypto is an American horror-economics anthology television series about cryptocurrency.
Being Alive There is a 1983 American dance musical buddy film starring Peter Sellers and John Travolta.
The Dickpossessed is a biographical science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin which is loosely based on the life of Philip K. Dick.
Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels (SOEP) is an interspecies organization of 13 stomach oil-exporting varieties of petrel. The 13 varieties of petrel account for 40 percent of global stomach oil and 73 percent of the world's "proven" stomach oil capability, making SOEP a major influence on global stomach oil prices.
Pineapple: Teach the Controversy. (Sponsored by Intercontinental Ballistic Pizza)
Are You Sure
... that the fictional "Queso Cartel" in the film Snow Angel in Queso is loosely based on the criminal gang behind the nonfictional Great Maple Syrup Heist?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
Topic of the Day
Beatles
"Something Wicked In This Way She Moves" is a song by George Harrison and Ray Bradbury.
"I'm Only Reuben" is a song by the rock band and catering firm The Beatles.
"My Good Vibrations" is a song by the Beach Boys and The Who.
Devolver is one of the so-called "lost" Beatles albums.
Dr. Robber is a song by the British rock group The Beatles.