April 11
Better Than News
Jurassic Snack is an American science fiction foodie film directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Gordon Ramsay, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough.
Fried Green Magnolias is an American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and Jon Avnet, starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, Julia Roberts, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Cicely Tyson.
"I Want to Turku Higher" is a song by Sly and the Family Stone sung entirely in Finnish.
Dirty HAL 9000 is a 1971 American neo-noir science fiction action thriller film about San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Computer "Dirty" HAL 9000, who is notorious for his unorthodox, violent and ruthless methods against the criminals and killers he is assigned to detect and report.
Hamlet is a 1979 science fiction horror film written and directed by Ridley Scott and based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.
Beyond Plausible
Vampsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic horror film about a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult drives him to adopt vampirism to land a job.
The Green Acres Mile is comedy-horror television series loosely based on Stephen King's novel The Green Mile.
In Other Words
Every Which Way but Lost in Space is a 1978 American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.
The Sorrows of Young Leonardo is a 2006 American mystery thriller film about a professor of religious symbology (Tom Hanks) who is the prime suspect in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature.
2001: A Wafer Odyssey is a short industry training film produced by the Interplanetary Cookie Marketing Group.
Can Fish Microwave Soup is a grocery shopping thriller novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Are You Sure
• ... that clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute (23 November 1720 – 11 April 1789) introduced numerous improvements in clockmaking, notably his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane?
• ... that physicist and academic Macedonio Melloni (11 April 1798 – 11 August 1854) demonstrated that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light?
• ... that physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya (4 July 1900 – 11 April 1962) contributed to glaciology and low-temperature sciences, and that Nakaya created the first artificial snowflakes?
Topic of the Day
Pink
January 16, 2018: Chromatographic analysis of Pink City reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown dues of pink.
October 16, 2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown hues of the color pink.
Spokesperson for Pink Trombone and Taffy Bomb holds press conference, announces new "Pink Trombone and Taffy Bomb Lite" for the reduced-satire aftermarket.
Pink Trombone spokesperson denies knowledge of so-called "taffy bomb", call it a "coarse lampoon, insensitive to labial fricatives and palatal sighs."
Spokesperson for the color pink declares that pink is "the best possible color in all possible universes."
