April 21
Better Than News
Aleph-Null Boy is an animated children's superhero set theory educational television series.
I Am Asterix, Hear Me Roar! is a 1997 animated television series voiced by Heath Ledger, Lisa Zane, and David Warner.
The Great Escape From New York is an American epic science fiction war film directed by John Sturges and John Carpenter, and starring Donald Pleasence and Kurt Russell.
A Cellphone Orange is a dystopian crime horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick and Tod Williams, and starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Malcolm McDowell.
Tweetless in Seattle is an American romantic comedy-drama social media film starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Elon Musk.
Memecop is a science fiction social media crime film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Beyond Plausible
Protect the Right Thing is a Hong Kong-American comedy-drama action film starring Jackie Chan and Danny Aiello.
"Why I Unite Dandy Locksmiths" is an anagram of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
In Other Words
"He thinks he can sit it out and still tweet a slice? I know why they call him the Tweetman." (The Dark Tweet).
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot establish the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light?
• ... that the Waking of the Slate is a tradition in the Welsh slate mining industry, and that the slate is traditionally woken with reveille call on bugle?
Selected Anniversaries
1552: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus dies. His works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), were extremely influential in his time.
1774: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot born. He will establish the reality of meteorites, make an early balloon flight, and study the polarization of light.
1822: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin born. He will invent and patent rolled celluloid photographic film.
1900: The Waking of the Slate ceremony is louder than ever.
1934: The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail. (It will be revealed as a hoax in 1999.)
1965: Physicist and academic Edward Victor Appleton dies. Appleton made pioneering contributions to radiophysics, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.
Topic of the Day
Simon & Garfunkel
"Mycelia" is a song by Simon & Garfunkel.
The Karaoke of Silence is a 1965 American spy thriller film about two government employees (Don Adams and Edward Platt) who must stop the Karaoke craze before it begins.
"Bridge Under Troubled Water" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel 1.1 about global climate change and sea level rise.
Don't talk of Clothes / Well I've heard the word before / It's sleeping in my Wardrobe / I won't disturb the slumber of Fashions in their grave / If I never Dressed I never would have Shaved / I am a Shirt / I am a Hoodie.
Three Days of El Condor Pasa is a 1975 American political musical film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Set mainly in a small mining village in the Andes, the film follows a bookish CIA researcher who returns to his childhood home in the village only to discover that all of the miners, and many of their wives and children, have been murdered or disappeared by Operation Condor.
