September 26
Better Than News
West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.
Lost in Altered Spaces is a science fiction horror-adventure film directed by Ken Russell and Stephen Hopkins, starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Gary Oldman, and Mimi Rogers.
The Three Stigmata of Philosophical Zombies is a 1964 philosophy textbook by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Young Destination: Final Guns is an American supernatural western film loosely based on the adventures of Devon the Kid during the Volée Airlines Flight 180 War.
Imperial Pancakes is a brand of pancakes from Grand Chef Tarkin.
Martian Pink-Slip is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
"Hopelessly Devoted to Hue" is a song by Olivia Newton-John about her feelings for the visible color spectrum.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space?
• ... that Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (1939–2017) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the Soviet nuclear false alarm incident on 26 November 1983?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.
Topic of the Day
Shredding Machines
Quantum of Sawdust is a 2008 British spy film about an MI6 quartermaster (Daniel Craig) who must stop a document shredding corporation from stealing the Strategic Pulp Reserve at Fort Knox.