April 5
Better Than News
Alps! is one of the so-called "lost" Beatles albums.
The Squirrel is a 2015 European Furries romance film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz as a man and woman who meet at their first Furries convention.
Interception is an epic science fiction crime thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
The Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Rider-Waite tarot deck. Hashtag: #AsBelowSoAbove.
Queerosmith is a theoretical rock band comprising Queen and Aerosmith.
"Mycelia" is a song by Simon & Garfunkel.
"Zen" is a song by an anonymous Zen buddhist monk.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?
• ... that surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?
• ... that Chaplygin gas is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?
• ... that On Halting Problems is a study of pathological medical algorithms, and that the work is anonymous but popularly attributed to combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler Asclepius Myrmidon?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.
1622: Mathematician and scientist Vincenzo Viviani born. In 1660, Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli will conduct an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they will calculate a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.
1827: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
Town Without Jetty wins the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) Award for Best Marine Civil Engineering Film of the Year.
Topic of the Day
2001: A Tweet Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction social media film about a mysterious black monolith which tweets messages from beyond time and spaces.
If I have Tweeted further than others
It is because I have Quote Posted
from the shoulders of Giants.
"We Built This Twitter" is a 1985 song by American rock band Startweet. It was released as their debut single on their album Retweet in the Hoopla.