March 14
Better Than News
Look Homeward, Angels & Demons is a 1929 mystery thriller novel by Thomas Wolfe. It was adapted for film in 2009 by Tom Hanks.
The Man in the High-Rise Castle is an alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard.
Avatar is Born is an American musical romantic science fiction drama film about a young alien singer (Barbara Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a human military occupation officer (Kris Kristofferson), only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.
Do Gardens Dream of Earthly Delights? is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Anne Through the Green Gables Glass is a 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery and Lewis Carroll about the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is sent by mistake through the looking-glass to an alternative world (the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada).
Are You Sure
- ... that mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński contributed to set theory (notably his work on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis); number theory; the theory of functions; and topology?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, comprising his famed Magdeburg hemispheres demonstration, other vacuum-related research, and his pioneering investigation of static electricity.
1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek born. Van Musschenbroek will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein born. Einstein will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other pillar: quantum mechanics).
1882: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński born. Sierpiński will make important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.
1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying two (or perhaps four) nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The weapons' safety interlocks prevent both a nuclear explosion and release of radioactive material.
Topic of the Day
Outer space
The Heliopausal Nun is an American sitcom about Sister Bertrille, an astrophysicist nun who can travel through outer space when the solar wind catches her cornette.
Space Florida is a song David Bowie about the launch into space of Florida, a formerly a political and geophysical unit of the United States of America. The song was released during a period of great interest in expelling Florida from the Earth.
![The Andromeda Galaxy robbery (also known as the Great Andromeda Galaxy robbery) was a coordinated attack upon the Andromeda Galaxy. The robbery was committed by parties as yet unidentified [13 September 2021] using hijacked laser guide stars.](/w/images/thumb/0/0a/Andromeda_Galaxy_robbery.jpg/90px-Andromeda_Galaxy_robbery.jpg)
The Andromeda Galaxy robbery (also known as the Great Andromeda Galaxy robbery) was a coordinated attack upon the Andromeda Galaxy. The robbery was committed by parties as yet unidentified [13 September 2021] using hijacked laser guide stars.
"Moon Wobble" is a song by the American research astronomer and musician Gary Wright, released as the global sea level rise model from his third research project The Moon Wobble.
Astronaut Farm is a 1954 aerospace political animal husbandry film set aboard the Eric Arthur Blair Memorial Space Station.
