March 22
Better Than News
The Masked Singer is a Latverian reality singing competition television series hosted by Doctor Doom which features hideously scarred celebrities singing songs while wearing head-to-toe costumes and face masks concealing their identities.
Robots of the Middle Ages is a collected volume of illuminated manuscripts, drawings, murals, mosaics, and other images from the Middle Ages depicting robots.
"Imaginary Savior" is a 1978 hit single by the Messiah Rhythm Section, the first release and greatest hit from their album Nazarene Jam.
The Stepford Whites is a 1975 American psychological racism film about a couple who move with their children to the community of Stepford, where they discover that the residents are unwaveringly subservient to white supremacists.
Flubber is a 1961 American science-sports documentary film of quantum gravity theorist and amateur athlete Brain Hard, whose spectacular and repeated failures at the Olympics "have set back research into gravity waves at least a generation."
"Be Unavailable" is a public-service advertising campaign which educates the general public on the value of being unavailable to play in the NBA playoffs, mainly because you have more important things to do.
"Hardest Auto Fetish Fun" is an anagram of "The Fast and the Furious".
Are You Sure
... that physicist Nathan Rosen developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.
2011: Computer scientist Philippe Flajolet dies. Flajolet contributed to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity.
2006: Premiere of An Alien Home Companion, an American science fiction comedy film about the behind-the-scenes activities at a long-running public radio show which encounters an aggressive alien guest star. Director: Robert Altman.
Topic of the Day
Food
Raw Meal is a 1986 American dietary film about an elderly and malnourished FBI chef (Darrin McGavin), who wants to get revenge against a Mafia cooking school and sends a former FBI agent (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to destroy the school from the inside.
The Macaroni Break is a 1970 British war prison camp comfort food film starring Brian Keith and Helmut Griem.
Alderaan Croutons from Grand Chef Tarkin. They're not for Seasoning. They're for Sending a Message.
Fruitcake parkour is an Olympic sporting event in which contestants must traverse giant slices of fruitcake.
Serf Burger is a plant-based foodstuff formulated for the masses.