March 26
Better Than News
The Devil Runs NASA is an American comedy-drama documentary film starring Meryl Streep as a powerful NASA executive, and Anne Hathaway as a space suit designer.
"Do You Believe in Warships" is a song by American rock band The Lovin' Bombshell.
Children of the Beans is a 1984 American supernatural slasher foodie film based on Stephen King's 1977 short story of the same name.
The Minority Elite is an American action thriller science fiction film directed by Sam Peckinpah and Steven Spielberg and starring James Caan and Tom Cruise. Based on a short story by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Tweeter is a 2012 American science fiction action-thriller film about contract social media influencers called "tweeters" hired by criminal syndicates from the future to influence followers in the past.
Tweet is a 1981 neo-noir action social media film by Michael Mann 1.1 about a thief and retired Twitter influencer (James Caan) who is forced to post one last tweet.
Diagramaceous soil is a type of artificial soil which generates mathematical objects. It is a naturally-occurring form of transdimensional corporation. Shown here: harvesting NFT bingo tokens from a plot of diagramaecous soil.
Are You Sure
• ... that physician and engineer John Mudge was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering"?
• ... that American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; and that his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, was carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel for some time; and that updated versions continue to be published?
• ... that mathematician and academic Paul Erdős firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity; and that Erdős lived an itinerant lifestyle for the explicit purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
1851: Mathematician George Chrystal born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).
1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
Topic of the Day
Julius Caesar
Caesar and the Pirates is an action-Empire comic strip created by Julius Caesar, which originally ran from his birth to his death.
Gaius Julius Christ (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), also referred to as Julius of Rome or Julius Christ, was a Roman general and religious leader who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of Christendom.