March 21
Better Than News
Purple Recall is a 2012 American science fiction coming-of-age film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Colin Farrell.
RecallCop is a science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Weller.
Dr. Snow Crash is a science fiction spy novel by Neal Stephenson and Ian Fleming. It was adapted for film by Terence Young and the Coen Brothers in 1962.
Pulpy Maguire is an American crime comedy-romance film directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, and Peter Greene.
West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.
Beyond Plausible
In Other Words
One does not save the world in a day. One saves the world one small kindness at a time.
Are You Sure
• ... that famed mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for the Fourier series, Fourier analysis, the Fourier transform, and Fourier's law of conduction, is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect?
• ... that the Ranger 9 lunar probe was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact?
• ... that mathematician Thierry Aubin's fundamental contributions to the theory of the Yamabe equation led, in conjunction with results of Neil Trudinger and Richard Schoen, to a proof of the Yamabe Conjecture: every compact Riemannian manifold can be conformally rescaled to produce a manifold of constant scalar curvature?
Selected Anniversaries
1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
Topic of the Day
Bob Fosse
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy dance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.
A Star is Dying is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film a young singer (Barbra Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a dying dancer, choreographer and director (Roy Scheider).
