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Revision as of 10:56, 13 June 2022
Better Than News
Gödel, Escher, Dick is an alleged user's manual for the Philip K. Dick android.
The Day the Gorp Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction foodie film about a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to deliver an important message about snack foods.
The Rocky Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic frozen confections film a father (Viggo Mortenson) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) seeking rocky road ice cream in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
In Search of Crystal Skulls American action-education television series directed by Steven Spielberg and hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange?
... that The Noel Harrison Sensation (or simply The Sensation) is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which actor Noel Harrison uses to project his sensorium, in order to experience opening nights of films by himself and his friends from novel perspectives; and that Harrison usually manifests The Sensation as a movie poster, although he occasionally manifests as a life-size cardboard figure of himself?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1806: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan born. De Morgan will formulate two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.
1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).
Topic of the Day
Food
Tartrazzini is a transnational dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored bright green-yellow with tartrazine (nonfiction). Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.
They Live, We Eat is a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.
