December 5
Better Than News
Pac-Man in the Garden of Eden is a 1531 painting by Cranach the Elder.
Baby changeling station is a table or similar piece of furniture used for exchanging human babies with any of various supernatural entities, including fairies, demons, and trolls.
"Midnight Cowboy" is a traditional folk song.
Elephant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and John Hurt.
Camille & Seymour is a comedy detective television series starring academic Camille Paglia and elementary school principal Seymour Skinner.
Beyond Plausible
Boxcar Confidential is a romantic crime travel film starring Kim Basinger and Russell Crowe.
The Scarlet Learner is a 1995 American romantic literacy awareness drama film loosely based on the life of pioneering lexicographer Noah Webster.
In Other Words
No Country for Old Men at Work is an Australian-American crime drama musical film directed by the Coen Brothers.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) introduced the uncertainty principle, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics which asserts a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known, given any of a variety of mathematical inequalities?
Topic of the Day
What Tweets May Come is a 1998 American fantasy social film about a pediatrician (Robin Williams) who is killed in a car crash but lingers on as a series of Twitter posts.