September 29

From Gnomon Chronicles


Better Than News

  • Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.

    Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.

  • Frybread the 13th is an independent foodie slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

    Frybread the 13th is an independent foodie slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

  • Chef Ramsay's Haunted Kitchen is a supernatural cooking television series starring acclaimed British exorcist and chef Gordon Ramsay.

    Chef Ramsay's Haunted Kitchen is a supernatural cooking television series starring acclaimed British exorcist and chef Gordon Ramsay.

  • "Sawin' Alive" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Jigsaw motion picture soundtrack.

    "Sawin' Alive" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Jigsaw motion picture soundtrack.

  • Slider is a 2004 American independent science fiction film about the events surrounding the accidental use of slides rules for time travel.

    Slider is a 2004 American independent science fiction film about the events surrounding the accidental use of slides rules for time travel.

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

  • Battle Hymn of the Yakuza Tiger Mom is a best-selling parenting manual about raising children for a career in the Yakuza.

    Battle Hymn of the Yakuza Tiger Mom is a best-selling parenting manual about raising children for a career in the Yakuza.

  • The Game 2 is an American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher and starring Jason Statham.

    The Game 2 is an American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher and starring Jason Statham.

Are You Sure

The Applied Lysenkoism Online Academy is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which camouflages itself as an online university.

• ... that the Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site in Russia for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of the Soviet Union?

Selected Anniversaries

  • 1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.

    1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.

  • 1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

    1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

  • 1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).

    1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).

Topic of the Day

Submarines

  • "Jell-O Submarine" is a song by the British rock group and catering group The Beatles.

    "Jell-O Submarine" is a song by the British rock group and catering group The Beatles.

  • The Unruly Submarine (better known as Unruly Little Submarine) is a celebrated children's book about a young submarine who misbehaves, with disastrous consequences for the [REDACTED] Navy.

    The Unruly Submarine (better known as Unruly Little Submarine) is a celebrated children's book about a young submarine who misbehaves, with disastrous consequences for the [REDACTED] Navy.

  • Dive! Dive!: My Search for the Best Undersea Dive Bar is a set of instructions, allegedly from an anonymous sailor, for locating the legendary "Lost Undersea Dive Bar".

    Dive! Dive!: My Search for the Best Undersea Dive Bar is a set of instructions, allegedly from an anonymous sailor, for locating the legendary "Lost Undersea Dive Bar".

  • Devolver is one of the so-called "lost" Beatles albums.

    Devolver is one of the so-called "lost" Beatles albums.

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