July 25
Better Than News
The Thin Red World is an epic historical romantic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the violent founding of New Jamestown on Mars and the inter-planetary breeding program allegedly run by Captain John Smith.
Days of Badlands is a romantic crime period drama film directed by Terrence Mallick and starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Richard Gere, and Brooke Adams.
The Hunger Thrones is a dystopian science fantasy drama television series based on the novel A Game of Hunger and Thrones by George R. R. Martin and Suzanne Collins.
Bonsai lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device using a bonsai or similar miniature tree.
Pump Up the Jam is a comedy food science film about a company's attempts to make inflatable jam. Shown here: Early research scene depicting the first prototypes of jam inflation balloons with hand-made pressure tubes.
Griftre is a neo-noir spy crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears and Sam Mendes, starring Daniel Craig, John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening.
From Cape Town With Love is a syndicated direct investment advice program starring celebrity economist James Bond.
Panspermia Travel Agency is a travel agency run by and for tardigrades.
Beyond Plausible
Bearface is a 1983 American crime drama film about a bear cub who survives a forest fire and grows up to become a homicidal drug lord.
The Golden Child 2: Chosen is a short dark fantasy martial arts action thriller film directed by Ang Lee and Michael Richtie, and starring Mason Lee and Eddie Murphy.
"Kevintown" is a 1982 song by Billy Joel about actor Kevin Bacon.
In Other Words
High Plains Promulgator is a 1973 American Western motivational film directed by Clint Eastwood.
Priestspotting is a drama film about a Roman Catholic priest (Linus Roache), a young hoodlum (Ewan McGregor), and their struggles with heroin addiction.
Are You Sure
... that physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey was an innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon?
... that Asclepius Myrmidon (? - ?) is a combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler?
Topic of the Day
Work
The Man Who Fell to Ergonomics is a science fiction management training film about the importance of ergonomic design in the workplace.
Martian Pink-Slip is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
Alien: Horrible Bosses (originally Horrible Bosses 3) is a 2011 American black comedy science fiction horror film about three spaceship crash survivors who are stalked and parasitized by their respective alien bosses.
!["Work! Work! Work!", or "Work! Work! Work! (To Everything Job Is a Paycheck)", is a song written by the Anti-Seeger, a malefic artificial job creation agency based on a rogue Pete Seeger emulator. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Every job There Is a Paycheck" on folk group [REDACTED]' album Folk Mutineer, and then some months later on Seeger's own The Bosses and the Sweat.](/w/images/thumb/5/56/Work_Work_Work.jpg/95px-Work_Work_Work.jpg)
"Work! Work! Work!", or "Work! Work! Work! (To Everything Job Is a Paycheck)", is a song written by the Anti-Seeger, a malefic artificial job creation agency based on a rogue Pete Seeger emulator. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Every job There Is a Paycheck" on folk group [REDACTED]' album Folk Mutineer, and then some months later on Seeger's own The Bosses and the Sweat.
Haribo Bosses is a 2011 American black comedy film about three friends who steal candy from their respective overbearing, abusive bosses.
9 to 5 Too is 1987 American horror film starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer. It is loosely based on the 1980 film 9 to 5.