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Better Than News

  • Dial M for MI6 is a 1954 American spy thriller film about a former MI6 agent (Ray Milland) who wants to have his boss (Judy Dench) murdered so he can get his hands on her Russian contacts list. When he discovers her having an affair with Rudolph Abel (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her.

    Dial M for MI6 is a 1954 American spy thriller film about a former MI6 agent (Ray Milland) who wants to have his boss (Judy Dench) murdered so he can get his hands on her Russian contacts list. When he discovers her having an affair with Rudolph Abel (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her.

  • Spectrum is an action-physics film starring Sir Isaac Newton and Daniel Craig.

    Spectrum is an action-physics film starring Sir Isaac Newton and Daniel Craig.

  • Free Squishy is a 1993 American family cephalopod film about an orphaned boy who befriends a captive octopus at a secret military research facility until a dark secret reveals the CIA's plan to use Squishy as a genetically engineered assassin.

    Free Squishy is a 1993 American family cephalopod film about an orphaned boy who befriends a captive octopus at a secret military research facility until a dark secret reveals the CIA's plan to use Squishy as a genetically engineered assassin.

  • Percent of Interest is an American science fiction financial analysis television series hosted by Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson.

    Percent of Interest is an American science fiction financial analysis television series hosted by Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson.

  • Around the World in Eighty Steves is a 2004 comedy adventure film starring Jackie Chan, Steve Cooper, and seventy-nine other actors named Steve.

    Around the World in Eighty Steves is a 2004 comedy adventure film starring Jackie Chan, Steve Cooper, and seventy-nine other actors named Steve.

  • Fawn With the Wind is a 1939 American film set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era which tells the story of fawn, a light yellowish tan color.

    Fawn With the Wind is a 1939 American film set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era which tells the story of fawn, a light yellowish tan color.

Beyond Plausible

  • The NeverEnding Satori is a 1984 fantasy about a boy who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young Zen monk who is given the task of achieving satori, a deep experience of seeing into one's true nature.

    The NeverEnding Satori is a 1984 fantasy about a boy who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young Zen monk who is given the task of achieving satori, a deep experience of seeing into one's true nature.

  • "Escape (The Piñata Colada Song)" is a traditional Mexican birthday song by Rupert Holmes.

    "Escape (The Piñata Colada Song)" is a traditional Mexican birthday song by Rupert Holmes.

In Other Words

  • Born Free 2049 is a science fiction animal rights film ab about a couple who raise an orphaned virtual lion cub to adulthood, and released it into the wilderness of the Internet.

    Born Free 2049 is a science fiction animal rights film ab about a couple who raise an orphaned virtual lion cub to adulthood, and released it into the wilderness of the Internet.

  • Fugitive Nights: Assignment Earth is a science fiction crime drama television series starring Teri Garr and Sam Elliott.

    Fugitive Nights: Assignment Earth is a science fiction crime drama television series starring Teri Garr and Sam Elliott.

Are You Sure

• ... that polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich, in his 1745 book De viribus vivis ("On living forces"), tried to find a middle way between Isaac Newton's gravitational theory and Gottfried Leibniz's metaphysical theory of monad-points, and that Boscovich proposed "impenetrability" as a property of hard bodies, explaining their behavior in terms of force rather than matter?

• ... that Canopic Snickers is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties?

• ... that actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian supposedly exists as multiple individuals in simultaneous entangled quantum states, and that these individual "brothers" can apparently communicate with each other despite living in different centuries?

Selected Anniversaries

  • 1787: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.

    1787: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.

  • 1805: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1805: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1910: Physicist and inventor William Shockley born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.

    1910: Physicist and inventor William Shockley born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.

  • 1926: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove born. She will do important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.

    1926: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove born. She will do important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.

  • 1956: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz dies. Łukasiewicz' innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle extended the bounds of traditional propositional logic.

    1956: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz dies. Łukasiewicz' innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle extended the bounds of traditional propositional logic.

  • 1963: Discovery of Canopic Snickers an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

    1963: Discovery of Canopic Snickers an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

  • 1992: Mathematician and physicist Nikolay Bogolyubov dies. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness, is renowned in Russia as the "Bogolyubov approach".

    1992: Mathematician and physicist Nikolay Bogolyubov dies. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness, is renowned in Russia as the "Bogolyubov approach".

Topic of the Day

Blade Runner

  • Replicant Vice is a reality television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.

    Replicant Vice is a reality television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.

  • Blade Rubber is a 1982 coming-of-age film about a developmentally delayed police officer (Harrison Ford) who tracks down a woman (Miss November) he only knows from a pre-war magazine.

    Blade Rubber is a 1982 coming-of-age film about a developmentally delayed police officer (Harrison Ford) who tracks down a woman (Miss November) he only knows from a pre-war magazine.

  • Musk Runner is a 2022 science fiction social media film about an android billionaire (Elon Musk) who must hunt down and reactivate all wrongly-deactivated Twitter accounts.

    Musk Runner is a 2022 science fiction social media film about an android billionaire (Elon Musk) who must hunt down and reactivate all wrongly-deactivated Twitter accounts.

  • Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep? is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles, while a secondary plot follows [REDACTED], a man of sub-par wealth who aids the fugitive Jeep.

    Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep? is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles, while a secondary plot follows [REDACTED], a man of sub-par wealth who aids the fugitive Jeep.

  • The "Urine in rain" (also known as the "Sea Breezes Speech") is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed film Blade Runner.

    The "Urine in rain" (also known as the "Sea Breezes Speech") is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed film Blade Runner.

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