April 6
Better Than News
Satan's School for Invaders is a made-for-television science fiction horror film about a group of young women at Radcliffe who make contact with a malign alien intelligence.
The Turing Completeness of Tutankhamun is a made-for-television movie which explores the question: Was the Pharaoh Tutankhamun Turing complete? And if so, can we make valid computations today based on Tutankhamun's grave goods?
The Twilight Gnome is an American science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling which features stories about gnomes.
The Joy of Thes is a 1972 illustrated manual of intimate thesaurus activities.
Irish Spring Fresca is a seasonally available variety of the soft drink Fresca which contains up to 2% Irish Spring soap.
Matrix of Steel is a 2013 American superhero science fiction film starring Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.
Jules Vernacular: His Life and Grammar is a 2022 revisionist biography of famed attorney Jules Vernacular.
Beyond Plausible
Two Funerals in Berlin is a 2008 thriller buddy film about an aging spy (Michael Caine) who must help his younger self solve a decades-old mystery.
The Irisman is a 2019 American epic crime drama film which follows Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a floral truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster florist Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), head of the powerful Floristers Union.
Young Destination: Final Guns is an American supernatural western film loosely based on the adventures of Devon the Kid during the Volée Airlines Flight 180 War.
In Other Words
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals?
• ... that computer scientist Anita Borg (17 January 1949 – 6 April 2003) founded the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology?
• ... that comic book artist Gil Kane (6 April 1926 – 31 January 2000) co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics?
• ... that painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) is widely regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, and that his vast body of work include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings?
• ... that Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjuncts to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens?
Topic of the Day
Apparel
Invasion of the Birkenstockers is a 1978 horror-fashion film about the "Birkenstock Scare" of the early 1970's starring Leonard Nimoy and Veronica Cartwright.
"Pale Blue Tights" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. The episodes features a cameo appearance by American rock band the Velvet Underground.
Prêt-à-Phaser (US: Where No Fashion Has Gone Before) is an action-apparel science fiction film written and directed by Robert Altman 1.1 for the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
"L'eggs all the way down" is a of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace. The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.