August 25

Angus (25 August 2023).

Better Than News

Mayan is True is the debut studio album by English singer, songwriter, and Mesoamerican archaeologist Elvis Costello.
Truss is a 1981 album by Elvis Costello and the Constructions.
"This Zimmerman Note's For You" is a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 which was later decrypted and popularized by Neil Young. The message proposes a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
The Running Zone is a dystopian action-thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and Paul Michael Glaser, and starring Christopher Walken and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Running Skerritt is a 1986 American biographical action comedy film loosely based on the life of Tom Skerritt, starring Billy Crystal, Gregory Hines, and Tom Skerritt.
The Vitamin King is a 1994 American animated musical health education film about Simba (Swahili for lion), a young lion who is manipulated into thinking he was responsible for his father's malnutrition.

Beyond Plausible

The Jaguar and the Bat is a superhero travel-adventure television series hosted by Bruce Wayne. In the pilot episode, the god Tezcatlipoca is outraged when billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne takes a priceless Aztec mask from an ancient temple.

In Other Words

America's Got Talents is a televised American weights and measures competition.

Are You Sure

... that biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston 's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga proved that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga sites long after the tests?

Selected Anniversaries

1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1699: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus born. He will be the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
1948: The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1965: Biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston dies. Marston's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga proved that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga sites long after the tests.
2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.
2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. Spencer-Brown wrote the unorthodox and influential Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".