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Revision as of 10:57, 1 February 2022
Better Than News
Mandalorian Dog is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.
Jurassic Piano is a 1993 erotic science fiction period action-drama film directed by Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg.
Indiana Jones and the Twister of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film about cultural anthropologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), who is asked by the Milton Bradley Company to investigate a mysterious religious cult known as "The Game That Ties You up in Knots".
Lawrence of Arrakis is an an epic historical drama science fiction film directed by David Lean and staring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, and José Ferrer.
The Man in the High Dojo is an alternative history novel martial arts novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
The Glass Tweet Game is the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.
Eight Will Do is a 2004 American supervillian film about a deranged scientist (Otto Octavius) who kidnaps the Bradford children, intending to use them as artificial appendages.
The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter is an American home improvement psychological thriller television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.
Are You Sure
• ... that on February 5, 1958, a hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered?
• ... that no extraterrestrial life forms were harmed during the filming of The Mandalorian Dog?
• ... that physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation)?
• ... that although heavily fictionalized for dramatic purposes, the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Tweeted is loosely based on actual German efforts to impersonate Winston Churchill on Twitter near the end of the Second World War?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1915: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter born. He will share the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
Premiere of Tacky, an American sitcom about the employees of the fictional Sunshine Adhesives Company in Manhattan.
1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
2015: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).
Topic of the Day
The Eagle Has Tweeted is a 1975 novel by Tannery Strophe about a fictional German plot to impersonate Winston Churchill on Twitter near the end of the Second World War.
"Tweetache Tonight" is a song recorded by American rock band the Eagles about Twitter.