March 7
Better Than News
Josephine Ascending is an epic historical space opera film directed by Ridley Scott and the Wachowskis, starring Vanessa Kirby, Mila Kunis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Channing Tatum.
RoboCop Begins is a 1973 American epic science fiction Western film about a notorious gunslinger (Yul Brynner) who seeks justice after discovering that he is a humanoid robot.
Möbius Potato is a non-orientable documentary film about efforts to develop potatoes derived from Möbius strips.
"Blade Runner" is a song by the Beatles. It was adapted for film by Ridley Scott in 1982..
Fight Club 2: The Redshirts Strike Back is a 1999 American science fiction drama film about three strangers on an alien world who must work together to survive.
True Colors Out of Space is a 2019 American science fiction Lovecraftian romantic drama film starring Cyndi Lauper and Nicolas Cage.
Annie Got Her Gun is an anti-war Western comedy novel by American novelist Dalton Trumbo about sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor served as a meteorologist aboard the Ice Patrol vessel Scotia in 1913, where his observations formed the basis of his later work on a theoretical model of mixing of the air?
• ... that the anonymous author of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) code reviewed the config files for the universe, concluding that "a universe where people die before they are born is not the universe you want to live in"?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.
1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
2019: Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
Topic of the Day
Dune
Spice Trek is a 2021 science fiction crime drama film about interplanetary trafficking in melange, a prescience-inducing drug.
Pulp Fremen is a 1994 crime drama film about Spacer Guild navigator (Ving Rhames) who is kidnapped by Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and held for ransom.
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.
Indiana Jones and the Sands of Arrakis is a 2023 science fiction action adventure film starring Harrison Ford as interstellar archaeologist Indiana Jones.
Fetal Recall is a science fiction action drama film based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert.