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INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.

Better Than News

RoboCop Farm is a satirical allegorical science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Peter Weller. It is loosely based on the novella of the same name by George Orwell.
2001: A Cain Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction religion film about a farmer (Cain) who rises up and slays his brother (Abel), leading up to a tense showdown between man and God that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.
The China Thing is a science fiction disaster horror film starring Wilford Brimley, Jane Fonda, and Kurt Russell.
The Unbearable Loch Ness of Being is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, the alleged Loch Ness monster, and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history.

Beyond Plausible

Murders in the Ruby Morgue is a American horror film about Doctor Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), a carnival sideshow entertainer and gemologist who kidnaps Parisian women to mix their blood with the dust of crushed rubies.
Do Joachimites Dream of Apocalyptic Sheep? is a 1968 apocalyptic science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Butch Cassidy and the President's Men is an American Western film which tells the story of Wild West Butch Cassidy (Dustin Hoffman), and his partner the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of anti-war protests. Paul Newman co-stars as Charles Colson, political hatchet man for the Nixon White House.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress but You Like It Rough is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Heinlein about a lunar colony's sexual abstinence revolt against absentee rule from Earth men.

In Other Words

The Omission: Type Two Errors is a 1976 supernatural mathematics horror film about a series of violent deaths caused by Satan which go undetected due to Type II errors.
ScarNFTs is a 1983 crime NFT film about Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in 1980s Miami and goes on to sell non-fungible tokens to a powerful drug lord.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that polymath John Arbuthnot published his translation of Christiaan Huygens's De ratiociniis in ludo aleae as "Of the Laws of Chance" in 1692 (the first work on probability published in English), and that in 1701, Arbuthnot wrote another mathematical work, An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning, in a letter from a gentleman in the city to his friend in Oxford, in which Arbuthnot praises mathematics as a method of freeing the mind from superstition?

• ... that mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist" by Eric Temple Bell, since Poincaré excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime?

• ... that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) believed, in the words of his friend Georg Henrik von Wright, that "his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He doubted he would be better understood in the future. He once said he felt as though he was writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men."?

Topic of the Day

Alcohol

Indigo Gin is a 1984 novel by Tom Robbins about dueling gin distillers in Seattle, Paris, and New Orleans who pursue a bottle of incomparable gin created by two unlikely but defiant lovers of the past who seek immortality.
"Mama Told Me Not to Drink" is a song by [REDACTED]: Want some raptors on your planet? / A Fernet-Branca spree? / What's all these crazy liquors you're grabbing from me?