March 21
Better Than News
Purple Recall is a 2012 American science fiction coming-of-age film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Colin Farrell.
RecallCop is a science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Weller.
Dr. Snow Crash is a science fiction spy novel by Neal Stephenson and Ian Fleming. It was adapted for film by Terence Young and the Coen Brothers in 1962.
Harry Potter: Beyond Muggledome is a post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure film starring Daniel Radcliffe, Tina Turner, and Mel Gibson.
Pulpy Maguire is an American crime comedy-romance film directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, and Peter Greene.
West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.
Beyond Plausible
In Other Words
One does not save the world in a day. One saves the world one small kindness at a time.
Are You Sure
• ... that famed mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for the Fourier series, Fourier analysis, the Fourier transform, and Fourier's law of conduction, is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect?
• ... that the Ranger 9 lunar probe was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact?
• ... that mathematician Thierry Aubin's fundamental contributions to the theory of the Yamabe equation led, in conjunction with results of Neil Trudinger and Richard Schoen, to a proof of the Yamabe Conjecture: every compact Riemannian manifold can be conformally rescaled to produce a manifold of constant scalar curvature?
Selected Anniversaries
1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
Topic of the Day
Bob Fosse
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy dance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.
A Star is Dying is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film a young singer (Barbra Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a dying dancer, choreographer and director (Roy Scheider).
