March 16
Better Than News
The Last Platoon of Christ is an epic religious war film starring Willem Dafoe and directed by Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone.
Lord of the Flies 2: Trapped in Assisi is a dramatic thriller film about a group of young monks trapped in a haunted monastery. It is loosely based on the life of Francis of Assisi.
Willy Wonka and the Spice Melange Factory is an American musical science fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and Denis Villeneuve and starring Gene Wilder and Timothée Chalamet.
Golem and Cactus (later Golem and Cactus: Crime Fighters for Hire) is a reality television series starring a golem and a cactus who team up to fight crime.
Omelette is a lost play by William Shakespeare.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.
Aquifer Pharmaceuticals is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides exploration, recovery, processing, and distribution services to the groundwater pharmaceutical industry.
Beyond Plausible
1902: APTO industrial chemists classify the Hazmatterhorn as a Crime Against Chemical Constants. Although derived from the word Matterhorn, the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.
RoboMarx is a 1987 American science fiction revisionist historical drama film loosely based on the life of Karl Marx.
Bearfellas is a 1990 American animals crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring all eight species of bear.
Memes is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Big Mac.
In Other Words
My Blood Car is an American coming-of-age romantic black comedy film directed by Howard Zieff and Alex Orr, starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Macaulay Culkin.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and that he won the Fields medal in 1954?
• ... that Mesopelagium is an oceanographer-run restaurant specializing in seafood from the mesopelagic zone, including bristlemouths, blobfish, bioluminescent jellyfish, giant squid, and a myriad of other unique organisms adapted to live in a low-light environment; and that all of the seafood served in Mesopelagium is raised responsibly in cruelty-free underground aquaculture tanks which provide the high-pressure, low-light environment necessary to culture mesopelagic organisms?
Selected Anniversaries
1520: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
1750: Astronomer Caroline Herschel born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1838: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1859: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
1915: Mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira born. Kodaira will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
Topic of the Day
Windows
Secret Widow is a 2004 American psychological horror thriller sex education and family planning film starring Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
Defenestration of the Realm is 1986 documentary home repair thriller film about a journalist (Gabriel Byrne) who discovers a shocking pattern of people being thrown out windows to their deaths.
