March 15
Better Than News
The Red Shop-rag is a modernist poem by physician and machinist William Carlos Williams.
Dubai Hard is a 2021 Emirati-American action-architecture film written and directed by architect Hayri Atak, and starring Bruce Willis as New York City police architectural engineer John McClane (Willis), who gets caught up in an armed interior designer takeover of a rotating turbine-style Dubai skyscraper while visiting his estranged robot spot-welder in a Dubai prison labor camp.
Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.
Being Alive There is a 1983 American dance musical buddy film starring Peter Sellers and John Travolta.
Gone With the Wind 2 is a 1939 American epic historical comedy romance film starring Larry Hagman and Hattie McDaniel.
1965: Publication of the political thriller novel The Three Stigmata of Karl Marx by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about a future where humankind has implemented every possible economic system.
Monk versus Alf is a science fiction buddy comedy-drama television series starring Tony Shalhoub and Alf.
The Fellowship of the Dune is a 2001 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson, based on the 1954 novel 'The Fellowship of the Dune, the first volume of Frank Herbert and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Dunes.
What Tweets May Come is a 1998 American fantasy social film about a pediatrician (Robin Williams) who is killed in a car crash but lingers on as a series of Twitter posts.
Beyond Plausible
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.
In Other Words
The Adulteration of Bergamot is a lost erotic novel by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.
What killed Sigmund Freud might not necessarily kill you is an advertising campaign slogan promoted by HAL 9000 Mental Health Associates.
The six-tone technique is a cooking method for ensuring that all six stages of marshmallow done-ness are cooked as often as one another during a marshmallow gathering while preventing the emphasis of any one stage of done-ness. It was inspired by the the twelve-tone technique of musical composition.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and academic Arthur Compton won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation?
Topic of the Day
Wordle
The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.
"Wordache Tonight" is a song recorded by American rock band the Eagles about Wordle.
The Wordle is Not Enough is a 1999 spy action-education film about the murder of a billionaire dictionary publisher, and James Bond's subsequent assignment to protect the publisher's daughter Wordle, who had previously been held for ransom by illiterate terrorists.