December 14

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist and educator Nikolay Basov (14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) conducted fundamental research in quantum electronics, leading to the development of laser and maser, for which Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes?

• ... that She's Gotta Habit is a 1986 American fashion-religion film about a young clothing designer who serves the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and the feelings this arrangement provokes?

Selected Anniversaries

Topic of the Day

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