January 3

From Gnomon Chronicles


Better Than News

  • "Tolkien in Your Footsteps" is a song by the English rock band The Police.

    "Tolkien in Your Footsteps" is a song by the English rock band The Police.

  • Middle-earth Farm is an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.

    Middle-earth Farm is an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.

  • Spider-Man: Into the Robotverse is an American superhero thriller television series starring Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who is bitten by a radioactive computer virus.

    Spider-Man: Into the Robotverse is an American superhero thriller television series starring Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who is bitten by a radioactive computer virus.

  • "I'm Just a Slinger (in a Rock and Roll Band)" is a song by the Doubly Some.

    "I'm Just a Slinger (in a Rock and Roll Band)" is a song by the Doubly Some.

  • We Need to Talk About Ethan is a psychological thriller spy drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay and Brian De Palma, and starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Cruise.

    We Need to Talk About Ethan is a psychological thriller spy drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay and Brian De Palma, and starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Cruise.

  • James and the Giant Grouch is a 1961 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl about a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical garbage can, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered Muppets he meets.

    James and the Giant Grouch is a 1961 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl about a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical garbage can, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered Muppets he meets.

  • Cerberus' Day Off is a historical drama film about the Bueller Gang's daring broad-daylight kidnapping for ransom of the "Cerberus Three" group of paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Cerberus' Day Off is a historical drama film about the Bueller Gang's daring broad-daylight kidnapping for ransom of the "Cerberus Three" group of paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made a simple helioscope by focusing the image of the Sun through a telescope onto a plane surface, whereby an image of the Sun could be safely observed?

• ... that computer science pioneer Peter Naur disliked the term "computer science", suggesting it be called "datalogy" or "data science"?

• ... that artist Karl Jones has said that his drawings "fall into two categories: spirals and monsters"?

Selected Anniversaries

  • 1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

    1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

  • 1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

    1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

  • 1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  • 1967: Premiere of "The Trouble With Triffids", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

    1967: Premiere of "The Trouble With Triffids", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

  • 2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

    2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

Topic of the Day

Non-Fungible Tokens

  • 2001: An NFT Odyssey is a 1968 American science fiction NFT film about an advanced computer (HAL 9000) which attempts to market itself as non-fungible tokens.

    2001: An NFT Odyssey is a 1968 American science fiction NFT film about an advanced computer (HAL 9000) which attempts to market itself as non-fungible tokens.

  • The Dragons of NFT is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, which combines anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how intelligent non-fungible tokens may have evolved.

    The Dragons of NFT is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, which combines anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how intelligent non-fungible tokens may have evolved.

  • West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.

    West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.

  • How to NFT a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.

    How to NFT a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.

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