July 4
Better Than News
The Silence of the Damned is an American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and John Carpenter, and starring Jodie Foster, Christopher Reeve, Ted Levine, Kirstie Alley, Anthony Hopkins, and Lindsey Haun.
Village of the Damned II: The Wrath of Khan is a science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and Nicholas Meyer, and starring Kirstie Alley, Christopher Reeve, and William Shatner.
There Will Be No Country For Old Blood is an American historical crime drama film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones.
A man-portable phrenology system (MPPS) is a lightweight phrenological measurement and analysis system that does not require vehicle support to transport or operate.
The Rabelais is a small hat-mounted missile for close-quarters combat.
There Will Be Hugs is a 2007 historical romantic comedy film about a ruthless oil prospector turned Hollywood producer (Daniel Day-Lewis) who falls in love with a strong-minded starlet (Reese Witherspoon).
Beyond Plausible
"Salty MacTavish Homesick Blues" is a lost song by Bob Dylan, known only from a handful of YouTube videos and social media posts.
In Other Words
Jesus Needs Coffee is a 1775 painting by John Singleton Copley.
Are You Sure
... that astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars?
... that Some Like it Haute is short documentary film about two short-order cooks who dress as French chefs order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime (inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Banquet)?
Selected Anniversaries
1804: Author Nathaniel Hawthorne born.
1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
Topic of the Day
The Twilight Zone
Twilight Zone 2: The Legend of Serling's Gold is an American science fiction supernatural Western film starring Jack Palance as Rod Serling.
"A Time for Kangaroos" is a lost episode of the television series The Twilight Zone staring Bob Keeshan and Bennye Gatteys.
Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
"The Monsters are Due on MAGA Street" is a lost episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.
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