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May 31

Better Than News

Dune: House Wonka is a science fiction musical fantasy film based on the novel of the same name by Frank Herbert and Roald Dahl.
Flipper 2049 is a science fiction nature film about a young Fish Runner who discovers a long-buried icthyographic secret which leads him to track down Flipper the Dolphin.
Moby Dick: Beyond the Sea is a science fiction thriller film based on the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Virtualization is an American science fiction comedy-action film directed by Stephen Herek and the Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and George Carlin.
Matrix: The Last Word is a 1999 American dystopian science fiction word game film.
As I Lay Dying is a Southern Gothic slapstick comedy film written by William Faulkner and starring the Three Stooges.
I Am Curious (George) is a 1967 Swedish erotic film about a good little monkey who is always very curious.

Beyond Plausible

The Three Stigmata of Quentin Beck is a science fiction superhero novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

In Other Words

Billionaire's Island is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that physicist Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved, yet this discovery resulted in her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics, with Wu not receiving public honors until 1978, with the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics?

• ... that Pascal's calculator was used in time travel experiments as early as 1860?

Selected Anniversaries

1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.
2023: Ely sunset (31 May 2023).

Topic of the Day

Economics

The Three Stigmata of Karl Marx is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick 1.1 about a future where humankind has implemented every possible economic system.
I accidentally used my Ouija board as a kitchen chopping board, and now the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace wants a refund.
"Back On the Supply Chain Gang" is a song by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections.
The Marx is Right? is a reality television game show in which contestants symbolically vindicate Karl Marx while disparaging Capitalism by heaping up cash and prizes and setting the lot ablaze in a secular yet emotionally stirring Bonfire of the Media.