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January 15

Better Than News

The Thin Red World is an epic historical romantic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the violent founding of New Jamestown on Mars and the inter-planetary breeding program allegedly run by Captain John Smith.
The Mathew Brady Bunch is a historical comedy television series starring photographer Mathew Brady and the Brady family.
"Number '39 Dream" is a song by John Lennon and Queen.
Four Angry Men is a British Invasion courtroom drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring the Beatles.
Dungeons & Surgeons is an American fantasy medical drama-adventure television series starring Freddie Highmore and Eleanor Audley.

Beyond Plausible

<gallery> File:Me and My Vulture - lyrics.jpg|link=Me and My Vulture|"Me and My Vulture" is a song non-Euclidean singer-songwriter Sly Harrowed Innards for his 1970 album Poet Hint?

File:Sister Doll.jpg|link=Sister Doll|Sister Doll is an American comedy fantasy film starring Margot Robbie and Whoopi Goldberg.

File:Octaman of Arabia.jpg|link=Octaman of Arabia|Octaman of Arabia is an epic biographical adventure monster film directed by David Lean and Harry Essex.

File:The P-Value Man.jpg|link=The P-Value Man|The P-Value Man is a 1997 statistical mathematics drama film starring Tom Petty and David Brin.

In Other Words

The Detailing is a 2011 industrial training video for car wash and detailing workers narrated by Tobey Maguire.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that Johannes Schöner was a pioneer in the history of globe making, and that he played a significant role in the events leading up to the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus in 1543?

• ... that a Kovalevskaya top is a symmetric top in which two moments of inertia are equal, the third is half as large, and the center of gravity is located in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis (parallel to the plane of the two equal points)?

• ... that the Superimposed Fraunhofer is a German postage stamp misprint in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer appears superimposed on the color spectrum bar, and that the cause of the misprint is thought to originate in as as-yet unidentified crime against light?

• ... that although greedy coloring algorithms do not, in general, use the minimum number of colors possible, they have been used to prove other results about colorings?

Selected Anniversaries

1623: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi dies. He was a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
$1818: A paper by British physicist David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals.$

1818: A paper by British physicist David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals.
1850: Mathematician and physicist Sofia Kovalevskaya born. Kovalevskaya will contribute to analysis, partial differential equations, and mechanics.
1896: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1905: Physicist and academic John D. Strong born. Strong will contribute to optical physics: he will be the first to detect water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus, and he will develop optical devices and materials including improved telescope mirrors and anti-reflective coatings.
1908: Theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller born. He will be known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he will not care for the epithet.
1945: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1981: English rock band the Rolling Stones performs an early version of their song "Asking for a Friend".
2006: A capsule of dust samples collected by the spacecraft Stardust returns to Earth.

Topic of the Day

Frank Sinatra

"Strangers in the Night of the Living Dead" is a song by singer and necromancer Frank Sinatra.
Dung at Heart is a 1955 musical film about a musician (Frank Sinatra) who finds himself working as a stable hand for horse trainer Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day).
"Luck Be a Bay Leaf" is a song about a sous chef, Earther Server, who hopes that he will win a bet, the outcome of which will decide whether or not he is able to prepare his signature dish with the garnish of his dreams.