December 4
Better Than News
I Snow What You Did Last Shiver is a 1997 American action-adventure film about four young friends who must survive winter hardship one year after covering up a car accident in which a man froze to death.
Dune: House Wonka is a science fiction musical fantasy film based on the novel of the same name by Frank Herbert and Roald Dahl.
"Paint It Black, White Rabbit" is a song by the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane.
The Six Million Dollar Tweet is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, who is rebuilt with superhuman social media proficiency due to bionic implants and is employed as a secret influencer by a fictional transdimensional corporation.
"Static Mat" is a song by Yup from their album Obdurate.
The Secret Diary of Jay Gatsby, Aged 13¾ is a dramatic coming-of-age comedy novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Susan Townsend.
Jeremiah Gatsby is an American drama film which tells the tragic story of Jeremiah Gatsby (Robert Redford), a self-made millionaire, and his grief over Swan (Delle Bolton), a young Indian woman whom he loved in his youth as a mountain man.
Beyond Plausible
When Godzilla Met Kong... is an action-comedy romantic monster film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.
Dobby's Heroes is a World War II fantasy-drama heist film about a motley crew of American GIs who go AWOL in order to rob Hogwarts, located behind enemy lines, of its stored Nazi magic wands.
Apex Thespian 2021 American science fiction drama film about an aging actor (Bruce Willis) who stages a secret game of "Hollywood Squares" for nine jaded billionaires.
In Other Words
Sleepless in Philadelphia is a 2021 safe sex romance drama educational film.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist John Tyndall (2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air; and that Tyndall died of an accidental overdose of chloral hydrate, to which he was addicted?
Selected Anniversaries
1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of accidental chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1969: Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
Topic of the Day
Westerns
"Censor of the Gun" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Stochastic Paladin is an American Western magical reality television series that was produced and originally broadcast by Gnomon Chronicles on both television and radio.