February 8

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Steely Kubrick was an American rock band and film production company comprising Steely Dan and film director Stanley Kubrick?

• ... that polymath John von Neumann was concerned that the Soviet Union would achieve nuclear superiority over the United States, and that von Neumann designed and promoted the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction with the intention of limiting the arms race?

• ... that the so-called "carnivorous dirigible" (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible, and that it evolved from early experiments in artificial intelligence?

Topic of the Day

Rock bands