November 1
Better Than News
101 Dalmations Farm is an animated dystopian political comedy film based on the allegorical novella Room 101 Dalmations by George Orwell and Walt Disney.
Monumental Barkitecture is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
I'm OK, You're OK, Throw the Ball is a self-help book by celebrity animal trainer Thomas Anthony Harris. It is a practical guide to humans throwing things and dogs fetching them as a method for solving problems in life.
Yelling Bad is an American Western crime drama television series starring Tommy Kirk, Bryan Cranston, Dorothy McGuire, Bob Odenkirk, Fess Parker, and Aaron Paul.
Old Yeller 2 is an animal adventure film loosely based on the novel Cujo by Stephen King.
Beyond Plausible
Everything is a Remix is a 2021 industry training film sponsored by the Board of Applied Cosmology.
In Other Words
"The role of the artist is to not look away." ― Akira Kurosawa
Are You Sure
• ... that American physicist and Soviet spy Theodore Hall worked on the Manhattan Project), and that Hall gave Soviet intelligence a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, along with several processes for purifying plutonium?
• ... that biochemist and academic Severo Ochoa Arthur Kornberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"?
• ... that aerospace engineer and weapons designer Ludwig Roth headed Germany's Future Projects Office during the Second World War, developing advanced rocket designs; and that near the end of the war, Roth was recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip?
Selected Anniversaries
1585: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek born. Brożek will contribute to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories, and be Copernicus' ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1790: Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1932: Broadway production based on famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing is a smash hit.
1967: Aerospace engineer and weapons designer Ludwig Roth dies. During World War II, Roth headed Germany's Future Projects Office which designed the Wasserfall and created advanced rocket designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Near the end of the war, Roth was recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip.
1973: Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1993: Biochemist and academic Severo Ochoa dies. In 1959, Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid".
1999: American physicist and Soviet spy Theodore Hall dies. During his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), Hall gave Soviet intelligence a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, along with several processes for purifying plutonium.
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
The Pon Farr of the Shrew is a comic stage play written and performed by T'Pring of Vulcan, co-starring her husband, William Shatner.
"The Casein Glory" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
