December 11
Better Than News
Conan the Barbarian: Curse of the X is an American epic sword and sorcery film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elon Musk which tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his social media platform (Twitter) at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Elon Musk), the leader of a snake cult
The Waking of the Slate ceremony is louder than ever.
Willy Wonka & the Citrus Factory an American musical fantasy foodie film starring Gene Wilder as citrus farmer Willy Wonka.
Beyond Plausible
Jesus Needs Coffee is a 1775 painting by John Singleton Copley.
In Other Words
Armageddon Hootenanny is an American television variety show featuring warfare-themed music and humor with the "Military-Industrial State" as the backdrop.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and mathematician Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function"?
• ... that Scroogebusters is a 1984 American supernatural Christmas film about a cynical and selfish parapsychologist who is haunted by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on possessing Santa Claus?
Selected Anniversaries
1781: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster born.
1792: French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1882: Physicist and mathematician Max Born born. He will win the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
1922: Physicist Peter Mazur born. Mazur will pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
1998: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz dies. He worked in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
Topic of the Day
Blue orbs
Bucky Fuller, Orb King is a 2021 fantasy engineering film about a brilliant wizard (Buckminster Fuller) who uses tensegrity principles to construct a glowing blue orb.
The Salem orb trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of orbcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail.
The Blue Orb Faction was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. The group was motivated by leftist political concerns and the perceived failure of their parents' generation to confront Germany's Red-Black-White Sphere past.