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Better Than News
Matrix Redemption is an epic religious science fiction film directed by Martin Scorsese and the Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves and Willem Dafoe.
Cape Fear 2: The Mind-Killer is a science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and Denis Villeneuve, starring The film stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, and Timothée Chalamet.
The Falling Nun is an American religious drama television series about Sister Bertrille (Sally Field), a Catholic nun who begins to sympathize with Satan.
The Why Files is an American science fiction drama television series about FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who lapse into mental illness after repeatedly investigating alleged conspiracies which are consistently revealed as hoaxes and misunderstandings.
Oz is a 1975 American fantasy adventure film about a police chief, a marine biologist, and a professional shark hunter who must travel to the Emerald City.
The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film involving adult temper tantrums and irresponsible handgun discharge.
Raging Boss is a documentary film directed by Martin Scorsese about legendary American musician Bruce Springsteen.
Are You Sure
... that physicist and academic Clifford Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1730: Mathematician and theorist Étienne Bézout born. Bezout's Théorie générale des équations algébriques will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1943: Publication of The Glass Tweet Game, the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.
1970: The spacecraft Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States.
2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
Topic of the Day
David Lynch
Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky.
Forbidden Cosplay of the Bene Gesserit is a 1984 American epic science fiction role playing film about the forbidden love between a dispossessed young aristocrat and his witch-priestess mother.
Return of the Eraserhead is a 1983 surrealist science fiction horror allegory film about a Jedi Knight (Luke Skywalker) who struggles to rescue his father (Darth Vader) from a grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial light and magic landscape.
Dune: the Heart Plug Years is a reality television series starring Baron Harkonnen and Sting.
Arrakishead is a 1983 surrealist science fiction horror allegory film about a dispossessed aristocrat who is left to care for his melange-addicted child in a barren desert landscape.