March 1
Better Than News
Harvey Darko is an American science fiction psychological comedy-thriller film directed by Henry Koster and Richard Kelly, starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Jena Malone.
Detectives of the Caribbean is an American fantasy supernatural swashbuckler crime drama television series starring Peter Falk and Bill Nighy.
Deacon Billy is a proposed film in which actor Dennis Hopper will play Deacon Billy, a Merchant Marine captain who trades his ship and crew for the last motorcycle on Earth.
If you meet the Buddha on an appointment in Samarra, kill him is a self-help book by writer John O'Hara and psychotherapist Sheldon Kopp about a physician in Baghdad who challenges Death to a year of psychotherapy.
Dynamo Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; March 1, 1917 – February 24, 1994) was an American electrical engineer, singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to prominence as an engineer artist during the Bell Telephone era.
Almost Breakfast is a comedy-drama coming-of-age thriller film written and directed by John Hughes and Cameron Crowe.
Cringe is a paranormal mystery of the week TV series which follows the activities of a shadowy agency which investigates and criticizes bad social media posts.
Nimrod Ichneumon, Parasite Hunter is a superhero entomology television series about a team of entomologists who hunt down and curb the vigor of the world's most prolific and troublesome parasite populations.
Beyond Plausible
Dial Q for Quetzalcoatl is a 1954 American horror crime thriller film about a petty swindler who plans to murder his wife with the help of a mysterious winged monster.
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.
Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (LCCBB) is a downloadable, user-reprogrammable cologne. The bottle's distinctive automobile design has an unusual feature — two decorative spare tires which conceal a Fleming valve. When activated, the valve emits "putt-putts" of ionized cologne.
In Other Words
Attack of the Roman Numerals is a 2021 American calendrical horror film about an alien species which Roman numerals to conquer the earth.
The Three Stigmata of Chantal Witherbottom is a black comedy science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. It was adapted for television in 2016.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician John Pell spent much of the 1630s working under Samuel Hartlib's influence, on a variety of topics in the area of pedagogy, encyclopedism and pansophy, combinatorics, and the legacy of Trithemius; and that by 1638 Pell had formulated a proposal for a universal language?
... that "Profit-Centers of the Caribbean" is a series of lectures on macroeconomic theory produced by The Jerry Bruckheimer Enterprise and based on Walt Disney's balance sheet of the same name?
Selected Anniversaries
1597: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1611: Mathematician John Pell born. He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1893: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1954: Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1973: The Dark Side of the Moon released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever.
1974: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for "an undisclosed amount" to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist from New Minneapolis, Canada during charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants.
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
"The Irishman Within" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Borg" is a song English singer-songwriter Elton John 1.1.
Drapes and Carpet is a historical drama film about Jonathan Drapes and Elias Carpet, two celebrity lawyers who become laughingstocks of the Federation of Planets after a freak time-travel accident.