May 29

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

... that psychologist, computer scientist, and author Christopher Evans had a significant friendship and collaboration with the writer J. G. Ballard; that they they developed ideas (circa 1968) for a play about a car crash, later evolving into an exhibition of crashed cars at The New Arts Lab in London in 1970, and ultimately Ballard's novel Crash, published in 1973; that Evans' charismatic appearance as a "hoodlum scientist" (in Ballard's description) was an inspiration for the character of Dr. Robert Vaughan in Crash; that that Evans also appears in Ballard's fictionalized life story The Kindness of Women as the psychologist Dr. Richard Sutherland?

... that Julie Andrews spent several months shadowing actual arms dealers in preparation for her role as weapons designer Mary Poppins in the musical fantasy spy thriller film Restricted Airspace?

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Microorganisms