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November 22

Better Than News

Bonsai lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device using a bonsai or similar miniature tree.
Turkey Clear is a brand of translucent turkey meat.
The Three Stooges and the Pride of Jesse Hallam is a film about Jesse Hallam (Johnny Cash), an illiterate man who learns to write and write by watching Three Stooges films.
The Good, the Bad, and the Blondie is a comedy Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Sergio Leone and Chic Young.
Hot Pockets Fusion is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from microwaveable turnovers generally containing one or more types of cheese, meat, or vegetables. Shown here: Tokamak Snacks.
House of Buttermilk is a buttermilk restaurant franchise.

Beyond Plausible

Animal Bank is a beast fable, in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic bank animals who rebel against their human board of directors, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed and, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the bank ends up in a state as bad as it was before.
Dr. Bloodsimple is a science fiction crime thriller film written and directed by the Coen Brothers, based on the novel of the same name by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

In Other Words

Hockey Fights and Car Fires (never get me down).
Lord of the Flies 2: Trapped in Assisi is a dramatic thriller film about a group of young monks trapped in a haunted monastery. It is loosely based on the life of Francis of Assisi.
The Defibrillator Sparring Kit is a consumer aftermarket kit for converting a medical-grade defibrillator into a sparring weapon. Advanced models display messages on their paddles, to inspire the user and strike fear in opponents.
Dead Hand is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control and vodka cocktail system that was formulated by the Soviet Union. It can automatically send Strategic Vodka Force Management orders to command posts and individual liquor cabinets if a nuclear strike is detected by "drinky bird" sensors even with the commanding elements fully drunk.

Are You Sure ...

... that physicist Harry Lehmann contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation?

Selected Anniversaries

1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Analysis of Umbrella Man photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
2022: Self portrait with atrocity exhibition.

Topic of the Day

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

John Dies at Parkland a 2013 American historical drama horror film directed by Don Coscarelli and Peter Landesman, starring James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes and Paul Giamatti. It recounts the supernatural events that occurred following the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Iphigenia in Dallas is the last of the extant works by the scriptwriter Euripides, who is best known as the lead author of The Warren Commission Report.
Iphigenia in Dallas: Captain Dallas welcomes the President and the First Lady aboard the Nostromo, unaware of the alien assassin concealed in the air ducts.
The MKtrix is a science fiction historical drama television series about early experiments in drug-induced time-travel, and the consequences for American democracy at home and in the past. (S1 E1: "313")
Clandestine Grave (also Giallofellas in European markets) is a 1973 American historical crime thriller film based on Dalton Trumbo's book of the same name about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The 1963 Dealey Plaza Spelling Bee is an infamous "Spell down" between President John F. Kennedy and a group of anonymous investors.
SS MINNOW is a dramatic television series set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial-criminal efforts to develop the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
Allegations of Life Magazine's involvement with the controversial television series SS MINNOW are "difficult to verify but more than plausible", says APTO math detective Niles Cartouchian, citing anomalies in the Zapruder film.
The Texan play and the CIA's play are euphemisms for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.