August 9
Better Than News
Samurai Kane is an epic samurai drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa and Orson Welles, starring Toshiro Mifune, Orson Welles, and Joseph Cotten.
Three Men versus a Baby Gorilla is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson as three men who must wrestle a celebrity baby gorilla into submission.
Magnum, E.T. is an American science fiction crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as E.T. Magnum, an extraterrestrial private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii.
Three Men and an Alien is a science fiction comedy-horror film directed by Ridley Scott and Leonard Nimoy about a deadly alien-human hybrid creature seeking its true father.
Green Lantern Acres is a hit prime-time television show about a successful, high-ranking Green Lantern officer gives up his big-planet career and returns to his home world in search of the simple life.
Silage Marner is an 1851 novel by George Eliot about silage, a fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation to the point of acidification.
Beyond Plausible
Markov chain smoker is a stochastic smoking model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state of a cigarette smoked in the previous event.
In Other Words
The Bear of Wall Street is a 2013 animal adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese.
Are You Sure
... that Avalanche is a brand of meat-flavored snuff?
Selected Anniversaries
1899: Chemist Edward Frankland dies. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1927: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky born.
1932: Mathematician John Charles Fields dies. He founded the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
2006: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
Topic of the Day
Westworld
RoboCop Begins is a 1973 American epic science fiction Western film about a notorious gunslinger (Yul Brynner) who seeks justice after discovering that he is a humanoid robot.
"Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Androids" is a country science fiction song by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Yul Brynner.
All in the Family 2 is an American science fiction television sitcom starring Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner, and Yul Brynner.
Gwangiworld is an American science fiction Western adventure thriller film directed by A film by Jim O'Connolly and Michael Crichton, and starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Benjamin, and James Brolin.
Scentworld is a 1973 American science-fiction perfume film about an aromatic amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to emit strange smells.
On Fox, No One Can Hear You Westworld is a psychological warfare television series waged against the United States of America by [REDACTED].
