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January 22

Better Than News

Dial A for Alien is a neo-noir science fiction crime film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Ridley Scott, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Sigourney Weaver, and Tom Skerritt.
Beyond the Heat of the Night is an American comedy police procedural crime drama television series starring Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins as police officers who must work with an animatronic guitarist to keep order at Chuck E. Cheese.
A ChatGPT Darkly is an American adult animated psychological science fiction thriller film written and directed by Richard Linklater; it is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick.
The Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company is a modern dance collective based in New Minneapolis, Canada which choreographs and performs original works relating to the coriolis effect.modern dance works related to coriolis force and architecture.
Brreta is an American detective television series about an unorthodox plainclothes police HVAC engineer (Badge #609).
"Talking Mattress Tag Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan.
Nothing is more degrading than sitting in a regular chair.

Beyond Plausible

Five Easy Beaters is a 1970 drama comedy romance film starring Susan Anspach and Jack Nicholson.
"What are Knits and Purls Made Of?" is a crossover episode of Star Trek and The Addams Family starring Ted Cassidy and Carolyn Jones.

In Other Words

Balls of Fury 2: Office Fury is an American sports comedy film starring Christopher Walken, Diedrich Bader, and Mike Judge.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that George Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better known as the Mad Bomber, terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices; that Metesky was angry and resentful about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier; and that Metesky planted at least 33 bombs, of which 22 exploded, injuring 15 people?

• ... that the 1954 science fiction political thriller film Astronaut Farm is set aboard the Eric Blair Memorial Space Station, and that the film is loosely based on the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell?

• ... that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a prolific inventor of mechanical calculators; and that he invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator?

• ... that Mesopelagium is a restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada specializing in seafood from the mesopelagic zone; that Mesopelagium is owned and operated by a cooperative of professional oceanographer-chefs; and that all of the seafood is raised in underground aquaculture tanks which provide the high-pressure, low-light environment necessary to responsibly culture mesopelagic organisms?

Selected Anniversaries

1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).
1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in certain cases.
1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.
1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.
Premiere of the political science fiction thriller Astronaut Farm, set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

Topic of the Day

Food and Beverages

Blood Orange is a 2006 American agricultural policy thriller film Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood oranges, which have enjoyed enormous popularity in recent years.
Enemy of the Mayo is a 1998 American condiment thriller film starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, and Gordon Ramsay.
Promotional art for They Live, We Eat, a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lucky Cosmos is an unlicensed transdimensional breakfast cereal camouflaged as an autonomous cosmological model which describes the observable universe from the earliest known "First Bowl" through its subsequent large-scale evolution into the most important meal of the day.
Headstone Pizza is a manufacturer of pizzas and accompanying custom headstones.