July 22
Better Than News
Peter and the Force Op. 67, a "symphonic Force choke for children", is a musical composition co-written by Sergei Prokofiev and John Williams.
Where's Jar Jar? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between a lawyer (Jar Jar Binks) and his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with his love life.
Who's Afraid of Jar Jar Binks? is a 1966 American science fiction comedy film about a late-night gathering at the home of George, a college history professor on Naboo, and his wife Martha, the daughter of the university's president.
"Whiskey in the Jar Jar" is an Irish traditional song set in the Star Wars universe by Metallica and Jar Jar Binks.
What Ever Happened to Baby Tut? is an American psychological superhero horror film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Victor Buono.
Mac's Labyrinth is a 2006 fantasy horror musical film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Doug Jones as Mac.
Beyond Plausible
"Bulgarian Acid Sense" is an anagram of "Albigensian Crusade".
In Other Words
Groundhog Day 2: Magic Mike Afterparty is a science fictional comedy-romance film starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
Are You Sure
• ... that inventor Reginald Fessenden performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music?
• ... that Dinkley & Roth is a comedy television series starring Velma Dinkley and David Lee Roth?
• ... that Norbert Weiner wrote on this day in 1925: "As to the state of the market: differential geometry seems rather quiet, and some of the principal operators have deserted it for other securities. Real and complex variables continue firm, without much change. Analysis situs has a bull market. Bull operators have been very active in differential equations, also. Quantum theory continues speculative, with chances of a very sharp rise, but the market contains a lot of wildcat stock. Hilbert, Brouwer, and Co. are doing well with mathematical logic."—? [Source: Science in America, ed. Nathan Reingold, p. 384; see also Pat's Blog.]
Selected Anniversaries
1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1861: Capture of the Enchantress by the US Albatross.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1965: Computer hacker Karl Koch born. Koch will be a cold war computer hacking incident involved in selling hacked information from United States military computers to the KGB. His death by fire will be ruled a suicide.
Topic of the Day
Food and Beverages
Tartrazzini is a transnational dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored bright green-yellow with tartrazine (nonfiction). Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.
"The Poet Hefts the Banana Peel" is an anagram of Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
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A Field Guide to Edible Theropods is a book about preparing, cooking, serving, and eating various theropods. The latest edition has an introduction by Frondo Ediacar, describing his experiences in the upper Cretaceous as a boy.
Hot Pockets Fusion is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from microwaveable turnovers generally containing one or more types of cheese, meat, or vegetables. Shown here: Tokamak Snacks.
