March 21
Better Than News
Jason and the Seventh Seal is a historical mythological adventure film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and Don Chaffey about the adventures of the Jason, the world's mightiest swordsman and chess-player.
Purple Recall is a 2012 American science fiction coming-of-age film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Colin Farrell.
RecallCop is a science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Weller.
Kickalong: Rise of the Planet People is a British science fiction thriller film directed by Piers Haggard, starring Ralph Arliss as Kickalong, mysterious leader of the unearthly Planet People.
West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.
Are You Sure
• ... that famed mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for the Fourier series, Fourier analysis, the Fourier transform, and Fourier's law of conduction, is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect?
• ... that the Ranger 9 lunar probe was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact?
• ... that mathematician Thierry Aubin's fundamental contributions to the theory of the Yamabe equation led, in conjunction with results of Neil Trudinger and Richard Schoen, to a proof of the Yamabe Conjecture: every compact Riemannian manifold can be conformally rescaled to produce a manifold of constant scalar curvature?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
Topic of the Day
Bob Fosse
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy dance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.
A Star is Dying is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film a young singer (Barbra Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a dying dancer, choreographer and director (Roy Scheider).