October 18
Better Than News
Spaceballs 2 is a science fiction comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott.
Slake is a 1998 American superhero drinking game film about an alcoholic with vampire powers (Wesley Snipes) who must confront his inner demons.
Slap Shot 2: Rise of Nosferatu is a 1977 American sports horror film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean.
Nosferatu is a brand of beer which contains up to five percent blood.
We Need to Talk About Constantine is an American superhero psychological horror film about the Archangel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton), who struggles to come to terms with her psychopathic son Constantine (Keanu Reeves) and the horrors he will unleash.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Memesters is a psychographic etching by the Spanish painter, printmaker, and alleged time-traveler Francisco Goya.
Hellralpher is an American television series about Ralph, a boy with a magical box that summons the Cimpsons, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic cartoon animators who cannot differentiate licensed and unlicensed intellectual properties.
Beyond Plausible
Beyond the Valley of the Squirrels is a 1970 American satirical musical animal rights film directed by Russ Meyer and screenwritten by Roger Ebert from a story by Ebert and Meyer.
In Other Words
Rosemary's Alien is a 1968 American horror science fiction film about a young mother who believes she has given birth to an aggressive alien invader.
"The Clouded Minders" is one of the Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek guest starring Kenny Rogers.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing, and that his Analytical Engine, while not commercially successful as Babbage had hoped, profoundly influenced later generations of computer designs.
• ... that the publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule in 2017 generated new interest in organic golems?
Selected Anniversaries
1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.
Selected Anniversaries
1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.
Topic of the Day
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeonville is a 1998 American teen fantasy horror film about two siblings who become trapped in a 1950s TV show, set in a small Midwest town, where residents must obey a mysterious, all-powerful Dungeonmaster (Don Knotts).
Freedom of Art, also known as The Thanksgaming Picture or I'll DM for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American game designer and artist Norman Rockwell.
Eye Floaters or Beholder Larvae is a public service campaign which warns people to distinguish between eye floaters and beholder larvae.
Saving Throw: The Journal of Stochastic Intercessory Prayer is a journal of professional saving throw studies.
Dungeons & Collins is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game set to the music of Phil Collins.
