October 24
Better Than News
Julia Child the 13th is a 1980 American horror cooking film starring celebrity chef and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) researcher Julia Child.
The Day the Balloon Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 horror film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.
"You Are the Shining of My Life" is a song by Stevie Wonder and Scatman Crothers.
Ocean's NFTs is a 2001 American NFT heist film about NFT broker Danny Ocean (George Clooney), who plans to delete $160 million in ape NFTs belonging to zoo-themed casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy García).
The Screwtape Candies is a Christian apologetic satire horror novel by C. S. Lewis.
Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.
Dune Girls is a 1997 British musical drama film about a Bene Gesserit girl group who go on tour across Arrakis.
Beyond Plausible
They Live, We Eat is a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Other Words
Distant Wilhelm Screams is a 1951 American Florida psychological Western noir film about an Army captain (Gary Cooper) who leads a party of ghost hunters into the Everglades.
The Pressure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Western geology disaster film about two downtrodden volcanologists (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston) to prevent a catastrophic eruption.
"Wojak Without You" is a song by the Irish rock band U2.
A Room With a View 2 is a 1999 romance thriller film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, and Edward Norton.
Are You Sure
• ... that Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) wrote, in a letter to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (via Henry Oldenburg): "the basis of these operations, sufficiently obvious (since now I cannot continue my explanation) I have thus rather concealed 6a 2c d æ13e 2f 7i 3l 9n 4o 4q 2r 4s 9t 12v x."; and that the decoded sentence was later published by Wallis as Data Æquatione quotcumque, fluentes quantitates involvente, fluxiones invenire, et vice versa ("Given any equation, involving fluent quantities, to find the fluxions, and vice versa"); and that fluentes in the work of Newton are changing quantities, and fluxions their rates of change?
• ... that minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 – 24 October 1635) designed and built calculating machines; and that he also invented techniques for producing improved maps?
• ... that physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants?
Topic of the Day
Star Wars
The Empire Breaks Up is a 1978 science fiction drama film about a Hollywood couple (Marcia and George Lucas) who experience marital strife after making the world's most popular film.
Sky Friar is a 1968 song by Eric Burdon and the Caterers.
Who's Afraid of Jar Jar Binks? is a 1966 American science fiction comedy film about a late-night gathering at the home of George, a college history professor on Naboo, and his wife Martha, the daughter of the university's president.