February 26
Better Than News
Star Trek: The Matrix Generation is a science fiction television series.
St. Elmo's Ghost is an American coming-of-age supernatural romance film starring Demi Moore.
"Olive My Love" is a 1979 song by the British rock band Led Zeppelin.
"Bridge Under Troubled Water" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel 1.1 about global climate change and sea level rise.
Pyro Parts is 1997 American arson comedy film which follows the life of an arsonist (Howard Sterno) from boyhood and his rise to success as the "shock jock" of pyromaniacs.
"The Trouble With Triffids" wins the Caldecott Medal for Children's literature.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and politician François Arago observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which now known as eddy current?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.
1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
Topic of the Day
Toroids
The Shape of Water Bagels is a 2017 American romantic fantasy cooking film about a mute chef at a high-security government bakery who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
The Lord of the Sprinkles is an epic high-fantasy film about a baker (Sauron) who creates the One Sprinkled Donut to rule the appetites of Men, Dwarves, and Elves.