July 28
Better Than News
Yakuza Pope is a 2019 thriller film about a modern yet devout Pope who finds himself at war with the Yakuza.
Irish Spring Fresca is a variety the soft drink Fresca which contains up to 2% Irish Spring soap.
Big Trouble on Little Tatooine is a 2020 comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.
2001: A Matrix Odyssey is a science fiction film about a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside the Matrix, a mysterious black monolith which transcends time and space using human minds as a computational resource.
Six Degrees of Tremors or Tremors Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other connect the film Tremors to another film, repeating this process until they give up and watch Tremors.
Scorpion King: Lord of the Moon American sword and science fiction action adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Buzz Aldrin.
Beyond Plausible
2001: A Smart Odyssey is a science fiction spy comedy film starring Don Adams and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Strike the Right Moon is a romantic comedy-drama film starring Danny Aiello, Cher, and Spike Lee, and directed by Spike Lee and Norman Jewison.
In Other Words
The Cross and the Satellite is a 1970 drama-religion film about a NASA theologian (Pat Boone) and a young exobiologist (Erik Estrada) who confront the moral dilemmas of contact with intelligent aliens.
Mrs. Butterworth's Wild-Caught Sardine Syrup is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which camouflages itself as a bottle of sardine-flavored syrup.
Are You Sure
... that chemist and academic Otto Hahn pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission?
Selected Anniversaries
1619: Astronomer Johannes Kepler writes to Napier expressing his enthusiasm for Napier's invention of logarithms.
1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.
1899: Georg Cantor asked Richard Dedekind whether the set of all cardinal numbers is itself a set, because, if it is, it would have a cardinal number larger than any other cardinal.
1902: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.
1904: Physicist and academic Pavel Cherenkov born. Cherenkov will share the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for their discovery (1934) of Cherenkov radiation.
1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army.
1968: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.
1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
Topic of the Day
Batman
The Dark Knight Ratings is a 2012 superhero film about a revolutionary (Bane) who forces Bruce Wayne to rate the villains of Gotham City.
The Dark Knight of the Tweet is a violence-themed concept album by the Joker.
