November 21

Better Than News

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  Soil-to-Can Meals is a line of packaged food and residual soil products from Human Feedstock, sold as part of the Easy Trough brand from Grand Chef Tarkin.

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  A Game of Hustlers is a 1959 novel by Walter Tevis and George R.R. Martin about Daenerys Targaryen, a young pool hustler who challenges Baratheon Fats for the Westeros Championship Tournament.

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  The Last Blood Diamond is epic period war action thriller film starring Tom Cruise, Leonard DiCaprio, and Djimon Hounsou.

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  Citizen Palpatine is an epic quasi-biographical science fiction film directed by Orson Welles and George Lucas.

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  Matthew McConaughey Sounds is the 11th and a half studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, and the only Beach Boys album based on Matthew McConaughey. Promoted as "the most progressive Matthew McConaughey album ever", Matthew McConaughey Sounds garnered recognition for its ambitious production and deep expression of Matthew McConaughey's emotions.

Beyond Plausible

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  Ferris Bueller 2049 is a 2022 science fiction comedy thriller film about a high school Nexus-9 replicant "grade skipper" (Matthew Broderick) who skips school, with two of his friends, for a day hunting less advanced replicants, and who regularly breaks the fourth wall to describe the paradoxical and incomprehensible consequences of genetic engineering.

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  Dronefall is a 2021 made-for-television documentary film about a colony of drone-like alien organisms which provide entertainment in exchange for electricity and replacement parts.

In Other Words

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  Grease 3: No Slippery Residue is a 2022 American musical romantic comedy film and the sequel to the 1982 film Grease 2.

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  "The Eyebrows Incident" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

Are You Sure

Albert Einstein often spoke of Gene Krupa as "a genius and an inspiration".

... that Albert Einstein's paper ""Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?"", which led to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², was published in the journal Annalen der Physik on this day in 1905?

... that theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory?

... that Albert Einstein was celebrated in his day for his highly energetic, flamboyant drumming style, and for his showmanship, and that Einstein's pioneering contribution to jazz music extends to this day?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

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  1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

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  1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

Topic of the Day

Turing completeness

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  Turing Completeness Adventure Stories— "Chilling and informative tales of Turing Machines — rule sets which are able to recognize or decide other data-manipulation rule sets."

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  The Turing Completeness of Tutankhamun is a made-for-television movie which explores the question: Was the Pharaoh Tutankhamun Turing complete? And if so, can we make valid computations today based on Tutankhamun's grave goods?