June 16
Better Than News
The Phantom of Sparta is an epic musical historical action romance film directed by Zack Snyder and Joel Schumacher which tells the story of Erik of Sparta (Gerard Butler), a masked, reclusive warlord.
Penny Casino Dreadful is a supernatural espionage thriller television series starring Eva Green and Daniel Craig.
Better Off Dredd is a 1985 American dystopian thriller film about high school student (John Cusack), whose suicidal tendencies draw unwanted attention from Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) and a homicidal paperboy (Demian Slade).
Dune, Where's My Cargo? is a science fiction comedy stoner film about Paul Atreides (Ashton Kutcher), who finds himself unable to remember where he parked his spice crawler after a night of Water of Life recklessness.
A Cymbal Plan is a 1998 American crime drama musical film about an upstanding local man (Bill Paxton), his dim brother (Billy Bob Thornton) and their friend (Brent Briscoe) discover a crashed plane with two things in it: a dead pilot, and a cargo of golden cymbals worth more than four million dollars.
Beyond Plausible
Dune: Rise of the Übermensch is a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche by American author Frank Herbert.
In Other Words
The Queep is a supernatural science fiction training film for underwater ghost hunters.
Are You Sure
... that physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo wrote Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory?
... that comedian, talk show host, and celebrity egotist Peter Giblets (January 6, 1922 – December 8, 2010) once famously "teased the Monster", resulting in the theft and eventual suicide of his artificially intelligent non-fungible token of Do Not Tease Monster?
Selected Anniversaries
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
2022: Self portrait.
Topic of the Day
Monsters
Do Not Tease Monster.
Troll.
