May 11
Better Than News
Star Wars: Ministry of Information is a science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and George Lucas.
Jar Jar: The Next Generation is a science fiction comedy drama television series.
Salmon Fishing on Tatooine is a 2011 British romantic science fiction drama film about a Jedi fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) who is recruited by an Imperial consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize the Emperor's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Tatooine desert.
Alien vs. Borg is a science fiction horror adventure film.
Euglena Junction is a reality television program about the life of Euglena, a genus of single-celled flagellate protists. It is loosely based on the television program Petticoat Junction, with various species of Euglena playing the roles of Kate Bradley, her three daughters Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo, and her uncle Joe Carson.
The Feynman Lecture is an American action-physics thriller film loosely based on the life of Richard Feynman.
Beyond Plausible
Go Ask Alice Blue is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a color addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive pigmentation.
Dune is a 2022 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William Gibson and Frank Herbert.
In Other Words
"Milf in the Fold" is a Forbidden Episode of the television series Star Trek starring James Doohan and Tanya Lemani.
Are You Sure
• ... that theoretical physicist Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988) shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin'ichirō Tomonaga for their development of quantum electrodynamics; and that Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams; and that during his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world?
Selected Anniversaries
868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. Ricci translated Euclid's Elements into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
Topic of the Day
Diana Ross
"Kolchak in the Morning" is a song by Diana Ross and Darren McGavin.
"Touch Diana Ross in the Morning" is a song written by The Thing for Diana Ross.
"Do You Know Who You're Voting For" (also known as the theme from MAGA) is a political protest song asking why in the hell black Americans would vote for Donald Trump.