February 24
Better Than News
Successworld is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series about the Roy family, owners of global robot manufacturers Waypark RoyCo, and their fight for control during a robot rebellion.
Citrusball is a family of sports involving citrus fruit. Derived from basketball, citrusball is played around the world, with many diverse local variations.
ED-209: Origins is a 2022 American superhero film about teenager Peter Parker, who gains robot super-powers after he is bitten by a radioactive robot.
Six Degreasers of Kevin Bacon is a 1982 American documentary film about dishwashing and kitchen cleanup narrated by Kevin "Six Degrees" Bacon.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss did not want any of his sons to enter mathematics or science for "fear of lowering the family name", as he believed none of them would surpass his own achievements?
• ... that ENIAC ( from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War, and that the Allies transmitted disinformation to potential alien civilizations in an effort to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: The ENIAC (SETI) program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
Topic of the Day
British bands
"Asking for a Friend" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones.
"Coppertunities (Let's Mint Lots of Money)" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Coins from their debut studio album, Planchets (1986).
"Olive My Love" is a song by the British rock band Led Zeppelin.
The Way We Blur is a Britpop romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, and Blur.
"I'm Just a Slinger (in a Rock and Roll Band)" is a song by the Doubly Some.
"A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.