March 6
Better Than News
Zero Dune Thirty is a science fiction historical drama thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Denis Villeneuve, starring Jessica Chastain, Rebecca Fergusson, Jason Clarke, and Timothée Chalamet.
Casino Bull is an American biographical film written and directed by Martin Scorsese about famed Las Vegas casino manager Billy Sherbert (Don Rickles).
Dr Quadruped: The Battle for Hoth is a science fiction thriller film about a brilliant inventor (Otto Octavius) who becomes dangerously obsessed with four-legged creatures after failing to construct a mechanical octopus.
The Manchurian NFT is an American neo-noir psychological economic thriller film about an Army software developer who is brainwashed by a rogue artificial intelligence after his Army platoon is captured. He returns to civilian life in the United States, where he becomes an unwitting pawn in a conspiracy to delete all non-fungible token data.
Aliens vs. Avatar is a 2009 science fiction horror film about an aggressive alien parasite which threatens the profitability of the Avatar™ franchise.
True Red Weddings is a comic book "true adventure" story loosely based on the "Red Wedding" scene from the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
Topic of the Day
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Paramedic is a fictional cartoon character.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." —Popeye the Sailor-Embryologist
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Popeye is a 1989 crime drama film about an English gangster (Popeye the Sailor Man) and his reluctant yet elegant wife (Helen Mirren).