March 6
Better Than News
To Live and Die in Platoon is an American neo-noir war-crime thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone and William Friedkin, and starring Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, William Petersen, Charlie Sheen, John Pankow, and Darlanne Fluegel.
Martian Grime-Tip is an analysis of interplanetary pollution abatement projects by American sociologist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man on the High Trash-Hill.
True Red Weddings is a comic book "true adventure" story loosely based on the "Red Wedding" scene from the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
Zero Dune Thirty is a science fiction historical drama thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Denis Villeneuve, starring Jessica Chastain, Rebecca Fergusson, Jason Clarke, and Timothée Chalamet.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
Topic of the Day
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Paramedic is a fictional cartoon character.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." —Popeye the Sailor-Embryologist
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Popeye is a 1989 crime drama film about an English gangster (Popeye the Sailor Man) and his reluctant yet elegant wife (Helen Mirren).
