October 23
Better Than News
"The Lonesome Death of Shadout Mapes" is a topical song written by Frank Herbert and Bob Dylan.
Bride of Chuckles is a 1998 American confectionary slasher film about a doll possessed by a criminally insane candy manufacturer, and his former lover and accomplice Tootsie, whose soul is transferred into a diabetic doll.
Flubber for Algernon is a science fiction buddy thriller film directed by Jon Turteltaub and Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams and John Travolta.
Barbarella: Queen of Golden Pond is a science fiction family drama film directed by Roger Vadim and Mark Rydell, starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda.
How Stella Got Her Bordello of Blood Back is a romantic comedy-horror drama film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, and Dennis Miller.
Dracula A.D. 2049 is a science fiction horror film directed by Denis Villeneuve and Alan Gibson, and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Beyond Plausible
Gilligan's Island 2: Battle of the Sexes is a made-for-television movie starring Tina Louise, Dawn Wells, Natalie Schafer, and the Three Stooges.
War of the Worlds 2: Revenge of the Drive-In Theaters is a 2022 science fiction thriller fiction about an alien species which disguises itself as drive-in movie theaters.
In Other Words
In film and television, a meet stochastic is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple whose first meeting has the property of being well described by a random probability distribution.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge (23 October 1873 – 3 February 1975) made major contributions to X-ray machines; and that Coolidge developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs?
• ... that physicist Tullio Regge (11 July 1931 – 23 October 2014), along with physicist G. Ponzano, developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model, and that this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models?
Selected Anniversaries
1873: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
2014: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge dies. In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
2016: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals quantum gravity control software based on spin foam models.
Topic of the Day
New Ingredients for Old is a cookbook and memoir by Margaret Mead and Julia Child.
