April 24

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open, and that Komarov is the first human to die during a space mission?

• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant?

• ... that film directors John Carpenter and David Lynch released separate director's cuts of their collaborative film Assault on Eraserhead 13?

Selected Anniversaries

Topic of the Day

Star Wars