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Stranded assets
Stranded assets are assets that suffer unanticipated or premature write-downs or devaluations, chiefly fossil fuel reserves and infrastructure that climate policy or technology change leaves unusable.
Stranded Deep
Stranded Deep, survival game by Beam Team Games, Pacific plane-crash island survival with crafting, rafts, and co-op; Steam Early Access Jan 23, 2015, 1.0 Aug 10, 2022, PS4/Xbox One Apr 21, 2020, Switch 2022.
Strange Angel
Strange Angel is an American historical drama series created by Mark Heyman for CBS All Access, based on George Pendle's biography of rocket engineer Jack Parsons. It ran two seasons, 17 episodes, from June 14, 2018 to July 25, 2019, and was canceled in November 2019.
Strange attractor
A strange attractor is an attractor of a dynamical system with a complicated, typically fractal structure rather than a point or closed curve, arising in chaotic systems whose long-term behavior appears unpredictable.
Strange Brew
Strange Brew (1983), full title The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, is an MGM comedy co-directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, loosely based on Hamlet, about two SCTV hosers foiling a brewery mind-control plot.
Strange but True (film)
Strange but True is a 2019 psychological thriller directed by Rowan Athale, adapted by Eric Garcia from John Searles' novel, starring Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Brian Cox, and Blythe Danner; Metascore 55, $343,038 worldwide gross.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson's 1886 Gothic novella, follows lawyer Utterson investigating Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, the same man; hugely successful, endlessly adapted, public domain.
Strange Days (film)
Strange Days is a 1995 dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett; a 1995 box-office flop ($7.3M gross) now a cult cyberpunk classic about SQUID experience recordings in 1999 Los Angeles.
Strange Days (The Doors album)
Strange Days is The Doors' second studio album, released by Elektra on September 25, 1967. Recorded at Sunset Sound on eight-track with a Moog synthesizer, it reached #3 on Billboard, went platinum, and includes "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times".
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital is a 2024 Philippine found footage horror film, a meta adaptation of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum directed by Kerwin Go, in which seven Filipino celebrities live-stream a ghost hunt at the abandoned Xinglin Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan; an MMFF 2024 entry released on Netflix in 2025.
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit is the 1939 anti-lynching protest song written as a poem by Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan), made famous by Billie Holiday at Café Society and on Commodore Records, her best-selling record and a civil rights landmark.
Strange Harvest (film)
Strange Harvest is a 2024 American horror mockumentary by Stuart Ortiz, also titled Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, following San Bernardino detectives hunting the ritualistic serial killer Mr. Shiny; released theatrically August 8, 2025.
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is a 2025 documentary, also called Strange Journey, directed by Linus O'Brien, son of creator Richard O'Brien. It premiered at SXSW 2025, runs 89 minutes, and chronicles the Rocky Horror stage show, 1975 film, and midnight-screening cult phenomenon.
Strange loop
A strange loop is a hierarchical system that twists back on itself so moving through its levels returns to the start, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1979.
Strange Magic (film)
Strange Magic is a 2015 American computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Gary Rydstrom, produced by Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic from a story by George Lucas.
Strange matter
Strange matter, also called strange quark matter, is hypothetical deconfined quark matter with nearly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks, possibly more stable than ordinary atomic nuclei.
Strange metal
A strange metal is a metallic state, found in strongly correlated electron materials such as cuprates and heavy-fermion compounds, whose resistivity grows linearly with temperature, defying Fermi-liquid theory.
Strange Music
Strange Music is an independent hip-hop record label in Lee's Summit, Missouri, founded by rapper Tech N9ne and businessman Travis O'Guin; its first release was Tech N9ne's Anghellic in 2001.
Strange Paradise
Strange Paradise: 1969–1970 Canadian gothic daily soap opera, the first Canadian daily serialized drama, inspired by Dark Shadows; 195 episodes starring Colin Fox as Jean Paul Desmond.
Strange Pictures
Strange Pictures (変な絵) is Uketsu's 2022 Japanese puzzle-horror novel, also called a sketch mystery, built around nine drawings; translated by Jim Rion (Pushkin Vertigo, 2025), it sold millions worldwide and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger.
Strange Planet
Strange Planet (2023 Apple TV+ series), based on Nathan W. Pyle's webcomic, co-created with Dan Harmon; 10-episode animated comedy about blue beings on a distant planet, cancelled after one season.
Strange quark
The strange quark (S quark) is a down-type quark of the Standard Model with charge −1/3 e and strangeness −1, one of the three original quarks.
Strange situation
The strange situation is a 20-minute laboratory procedure introduced by Mary Ainsworth in 1970 that assesses infant attachment through brief separations from and reunions with a caregiver.
Strange star
A strange star, also called a strange quark star, is a hypothetical compact star composed of self-bound strange quark matter, which may explain some pulsars.
Strange Tales
Strange Tales is a Marvel Comics anthology series (1951-1968, revived 1973-1976) that began as Atlas horror/sci-fi, featured giant monsters like Fin Fang Foom, and introduced Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; the name was later reused for indie-cartoonist anthologies in 2009-2010 and a 2025 series.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi) is a collection of nearly 500 classical Chinese short stories by the Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling (1640–1715).
Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II (唐朝诡事录之西行)
Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II: To the West (唐朝诡事录之西行) is a 2024 iQiyi 40-episode costume mystery anthology, sequel to the 2022 hit, directed by Bai Shan, written by Wei Fenghua, starring Yang Xuwen and Yang Zhigang, with eight unit cases and a Douban score of 8.3.
Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III (唐朝诡事录之长安)
Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III: To Chang'an (唐朝诡事录之长安) is the third season of iQiyi's Tang-dynasty zhiguai detective series, a 40-episode 2025 drama starring Yang Xuwen and Yang Zhigang, set in High Tang Chang'an with eight strange cases and a Douban score of 8.0.
Strange Way of Life
Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida) is Pedro Almodóvar's 31-minute 2023 Spanish queer western short, starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as reunited former lovers and hired gunmen in Bitter Creek; it premiered at Cannes 2023 as the first Saint Laurent Productions film.
Strange Wilderness
Strange Wilderness is a 2008 American stoner comedy directed by Fred Wolf. It stars Steve Zahn and Allen Covert as a crew searching for Bigfoot in South America.