March 12
Better Than News
The Wordle Solution a 1969 book of pandemic-themed puzzles by American writer Michael Crichton. The puzzles are loosely based on the outbreak of a deadly linguistic virus at the New York Times and the team of puzzle enthusiasts investigating it.
Manwich is a police procedural nutritional guidelines television series starring Burt Reynolds as health inspector Dan Manwich.
Ice Station Zhivago is a 1968 espionage film set in Russia from the Russian Civil War through the Cold War. It stars Rock Hudson in the title role as Yuri Zhivago, a married physician and poet, and Julie Christie Soviet NKVD assassin Lara Antipova, with Jim Brown and Ernest Borgnine in supporting roles as OSS assassins who are secretly lovers.
Look Homeward, Ulysses is an epic documentary film about the collaborative novel of the same name by James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe.
Skyfall on the Ceiling is a British-American musical spy thriller film starring Daniel Craig and Lionel Richie.
The Cross and the NFTs is a 1970 drama-religion film about a small-town preacher (Pat Boone) who gets caught up in the NFT economy in New York City.
Beyond Plausible
"Feeding on a Jet Plane" is a song about Godzilla by John Denver.
Alien Krispies is a brand of breakfast cereal manufactured by Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
In Other Words
Willy Wonka & the Methamphetamine Factory is an American musical fantasy crime thriller film directed by Mel Stuart and Vince Gilligan about deranged candymaker Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) who befriends a poor chemistry teacher named Walter White (Bryan Cranston).
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects?
• ... that The Wizard is a 1937 children's fantasy graphic novel by J. R. R. Tolkien and Vaughn Bodē?
Selected Anniversaries
1579: Humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini dies. Piccolomini promoted vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.
1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
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Topic of the Day
Love
The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter is an American home improvement psychological thriller television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.
In film and television, a meet stochastic is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple whose first meeting has the property of being well described by a random probability distribution.