September 1
Autumn Spiral.
Better Than News
The Old Man and C-3PO is a science fiction adventure film directed by George Lucas, based on the novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.
Old Spice candy corn deodorant snack is a candy corn flavored deodorant snack food.
Gentle Ben, Bounty Hunter is a 1965 children's novel about the friendship between a large male bear named Ben and a bounty hunter named Mark. The story provided the basis for the 1967 film Gentle Giant Hunter (1967), the popular late 1960s U.S. television series 'Gentle Ben, Bounty Hunter, a 1980s animated cartoon, and two early 2000s made-for-TV movies.
Soylent Hill is a supernatural dystopian horror film directed by Christophe Gans and Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston and Radha Mitchell.
The Day the Matrix Stood Still is a science fiction thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves.
Pulp Fission is a black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Beyond Plausible
The Irisman is a 2019 American epic crime drama ophthalmology training film by Martin Scorsese about an ophthalmologist (Robert De Niro) who becomes a hitman.
Handicrafts (better known as "You Sexy Thing") is a song by British soul group Hot Chocolate.
In Other Words
The Pomegranate cosmos model of the observable how the universe expanded from an initial state of extremely high density and high temperature, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale Pomegranate-Like Structures (PLS).
Are You Sure
... that "When Will I See Eschaton" is a song released in 1974 by pre-Apocalyptic soul group The Earth Debris, from their third album Triple Threat?
Selected Anniversaries
1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1681: Mathematician Michelangelo Ricci created Cardinal.
1861: Chemist Lazăr Edeleanu born. Edeleanu will invent the modern method of refining crude oil, and will be the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
Spice Trek is a 2021 science fiction crime drama film about interplanetary trafficking in melange, a prescience-inducing drug.
"Death of a Stalactite" is an one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. The script is widely but erroneously attributed to Arthur Miller.