November 9
Better Than News
BRICS is an American neo-noir intergovernmental thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, starring an ensemble cast including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Five Easel Pieces is a 1970 drama art film about a surly watercolor painter (Jack Nicholson) whose rootless existence belies his privileged youth as the heir to oil wealth.
The Dark NFT is a 2008 superhero NFT film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged database engineer who threatens to delete all the non-fungible tokens in Gotham City.
Double Space Boomers is a literary drama thriller film about a traumatized Vietnam War veteran (Charlie Sheen) who turns to copyediting for solace.
Pride and Prejudice 2049 is a 2005 romantic science fiction drama film about five sister-clones from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality, and recombinant DNA therapy.
No Country for Old Mimics is a science fiction crime thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Joel and Ethan Coen.
"You Shook Me Throughout the Anthropocene" is a song by Australian anthropological research team and hard rock band AC/DC.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl (9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) conducted research will had major significance for theoretical physics?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
1920: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge born. He will study the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.
1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Topic of the Day
Petroleum
Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.
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.
"And The Petroleum Shall Leak" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying is a 1967/2021 American musical industrial training film based on the 1961 military program of the same name, which in turn was based on [REDACTED]'s 1952 Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
"OK. Which one of you jokers ordered the Halloween weather for Memorial Day weekend" — Industrial Humans. That's Just Fuckin' Great™
"I'd Buy Earth for a Dollar" is an epic documentary film about macroeconomic petroleum extraction theory on the planet Earth.