June 20
Better Than News
Olympus Has Flubber is an American science fiction political thriller film directed by Les Mayfield and Antoine Fuqua, and starring Robin Williams, Gerard Butler, Clancy Brown, Aaron Eckhart, Ted Levine, and Morgan Freeman.
Smilodon is a 2018 American nature thriller film about a paleontologist (Tom Cruise) who must stop saber-tooth tigers from evolving teeth so large that they cannot close their mouths.
Fiddlers of the Lost Roof period musical action-adventure film starring Topol and Harrison Ford.
Mister Rogers' Op-Center is an American half-hour children's national security television series created and hosted by an anonymous Fred Rogers impersonator reporting from an undisclosed location.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Virtualization is an American science fiction comedy-action film directed by Stephen Herek and the Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and George Carlin.
Matrix: The Last Word is a 1999 American dystopian science fiction word game film.
Flubber is a 1961 American science-sports documentary film of quantum gravity theorist and amateur athlete Brain Hard, whose spectacular and repeated failures at the Olympics "have set back research into gravity waves at least a generation."
Beyond Plausible
Indiana Jones 2049 is an American neo-noir action-adventure film about K, a Nexus-9 replicant Whip Runner who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize the Indiana Jones franchise and the course of civilization.
In Other Words
Twittergrades is a 2022 book about how Twitter's work policies stimulated the evolution of new species of tardigrades.
Are You Sure
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•... that inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer designed and built several hand-powered submarines?
• ... that Topol and Harrison Ford got their respective roles in the film Fiddlers of the Lost Roof because of a humorous wager between directors Norman Jewison and Steven Spielberg?
Selected Anniversaries
1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and built several hand-powered submarines.
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2024: Self portrait.
Topic of the Day
Airplanes
"Silvery Aeroplanes" is an anagram of "Elvis Aaron Presley".
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American war film about a college freshman and airplane restoration enthusiast who is also a drug addict.
Black Phaeton is a historical drama film based on the race films of the 1920s.
Guess Hughes Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American romantic aviation drama film, one of the few films of the time to depict Howard Hughes in a positive light, as Hughes had become an eccentric recluse.
Inverted Flight 19: Five Navy planes become permanently trapped in the Bermuda Triangle Dead Letter Office after a junior Gnomon algorithm engineer in the United States Navy Advanced Philately Division misplaces a decimal point.
The inverted Charles Lindbergh stamp misprint is a famous example of a stamp misprint apparently caused by the printers' emotional response to Charles Lindbergh's intimate association with Nazi Germany.
"Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Adult Airplane Disorders: A Meta-analysis Of Randomized Placebo-controlled Airshows" is a research paper published by Playskool's My First DSM.
"Mendelevium on a Jet Plane" is a song by John Denver and a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Four Honeymoons and a Snake on a Plane is a 2021 romantic herpetology thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, and Samuel L. Jackson.
