July 23
Better Than News
Joker Begins is a psychological comedy-thriller buddy film directed by Christopher Nolan and Todd Phillips, and starring Cillian Murphy and Joaquin Phoenix.
Men in Vac is a 1997 American science fiction action home improvement film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, and James Spangler.
Logan's Lounge is a 1976 erotic psychological thriller science fiction film starring Michael York and Jennifer Agutter.
The Private Afternoons of Robert Oppenheimer is an American historical hardcore adult film starring Barbara Bourbon and Cillian Murphy. It is loosely based on the Manhattan Project.
Beyond Plausible
Freedom from Worms is one of the "Four Freedoms" paintings by C. Enroll Workman.
In Other Words
Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.
Are You Sure
... that astronomer Vera Rubin discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion by studying galactic rotation curves?
... that I'm thinking of a three-digit sequence from pi, and can you guess what it is?
Selected Anniversaries
1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.
1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Topic of the Day
Games
![Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.](/w/images/thumb/e/e7/Grand_Theft_Anathem.jpg/112px-Grand_Theft_Anathem.jpg)
Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.
Connect Forrest Gump is a 1994 American gaming-drama film about Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a slow-witted and kindhearted man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century United States while playing Connect Four.
