• Some of Adam Green's music was featured in the 2007 hit movie Juno, bringing him fame and making him the subject of interviews in the media in which he tells some of his favorite anecdotes. For example, he broke a tooth while eating a bagel, necessitating a titanium replacement. His dentist used a substance that became a subject of conversation at a subsequent meeting in which his dentist told him, "Hey, remember when we pulled out your tooth? We put some replacement bone material up in there to promote healing." The dentist said that the replacement bone material came from a human cadaver, then added, "The problem is that … have you been reading the news lately? Well, this guy stole all these bodies from this funeral home in New Jersey, and you are the recipient of this, like, stolen body part." Mr. Green grins and says, "It turned out I got the bones of Alistair Cooke!"
• Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine have performed all over the world. In El Salvador, civil war wracked the country, and three bodyguards with Uzi submarine guns protected Ms. Estefan. While they were performing, some explosions rocked the air above the arena and so the members of the band hit the floor of the stage. Fortunately, the explosions were fireworks set off to welcome them. They got up and dusted themselves off, and the crowd applauded them. When they had an English-language hit in "Dr. Beat," they performed in Spain, where the promoters provided them with translators because they did not know that Ms. Estefan and the other members of the Miami Sound Machine were fluent in Spanish. Indeed, for most members, including Ms. Estefan, Spanish is their first language.
• Sir Peter Ustinov once saw four very interesting windmills at a production of Jules Massenet's Don Quixote at the Paris Opera. The first windmill, which was propelled by a small man, turned at the proper speed. The second windmill, which was propelled by a very heavy man, turned much slower. The third windmill was turned by two men who disliked and would not cooperate with each other, so its speed varied. The fourth windmill was powered by a malfunctioning electric motor that went into reverse so that the fourth windmill was turning in a direction that was different from the other windmills.
• In Vienna, operatic tenor Leo Slezak knew a cabbie with one horse - a blind one. Although it wasn't fashionable to go about the streets of Vienna in a one-horse cab - two horses were the fashion - Mr. Slezak so liked the cabman, Johann, that he patronized him. One day Johann prepared a special treat for Mr. Slezak - he brought a musical clock that played the Radetzky March. Mr. Slezak was appreciative of the gesture, but after the clock had played the Radetzky March a dozen times, he asked Johann to stop the clock. Unfortunately, Johann replied that when the clock had been wound up, it would play for two and a half hours, and there was no way to stop it. Mr. Slezak was forced to get out of the cab and walk.
Formerly the British Crown Colony of Basutoland, this nation is one of only three independent states completely surrounded by the territory of another country. What is the name of this enclaved nation?
Born Donald Herbert Kemske, he used the name Donald Jeffry Herbert professionally, but he is best known by a name taken from the title of the children's educational TV series that he created. What name did the kids on his show call him?
Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske and better known as Mr. Wizard, July 10, 1917 - June 12, 2007) was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951-65, 1971-72) and Mr. Wizard's World (1983-90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children. It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the popularity and longevity of "the friendly, neighborly scientist". In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "Herbert's techniques and performances helped create the United States' first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world." Herbert is credited with turning "a generation of youth" in the 1950s and early 1960s onto "the promise and perils of science".
Born in Waconia, Minnesota, Herbert was a general science and English major at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (then called La Crosse State Teachers College) who was interested in drama. His career as an actor was interrupted by World War II when he enlisted in the United States Army as a Private. Herbert later joined the United States Army Air Forces, took pilot training, and became a B-24 bomber pilot who flew 56 combat missions from Italy with the 767th Bomb Squadron, 461st Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force. When Herbert was discharged in 1945 he was a Captain and had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.
After the war Herbert worked at a radio station in Chicago where he acted in children's programs such as the documentary health series It's Your Life (1949). It was during this time that Herbert formulated the idea of Mr. Wizard and a general science experiments show that used the new medium of television. Herbert's idea was accepted by Chicago NBC station WNBQ and the series Watch Mr. Wizard premiered on March 3, 1951. The weekly half-hour live television show, co-produced by Jules Power, featured Herbert as Mr. Wizard and either a boy or a girl with whom Herbert performed interesting science experiments. The experiments, many of which seemed impossible at first glance, were usually simple enough to be re-created by viewers.
The show was very successful with 547 live episodes created before it was canceled in 1965. The program won a Peabody Award in 1953. Marcel LaFollette notes that, "At its peak, Watch Mr. Wizard drew about eight hundred thousand viewers per episode, but it had an even wider impact. By 1956 over five thousand "Mr. Wizard Science Clubs" had been established, with total membership over a hundred thousand. Teachers incorporated program themes into their classes, and "Mr. Wizard" science kits, books, and other product tie-ins filled the holiday gift lists of countless children."
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Billy in Cypress U$A was first, and correct, with:
Mister Wizard
Mark. said:
Mr. Wizard.
Randall wrote:
Mr. Wizard
Alan J answered:
Mr. Wizard.
Jacqueline responded:
Mr. Wizard.
zorch replied:
The kids called him Mister Wizard.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Mr. Wizard. But not the cartoon one (voiced by the late, great Sandy Becker) who sent Tooter Turtle into misadventure only to have to rescue him shortly after saying "Drizzle Drazzle Druzzle Drome, time for this one to come home!"
mj said:
Before there was Bill Nye
There was Mr. Wizard.
Adam answered:
Captain Kangaroo? No... Mr. Wizard.
Jon L replied:
Chances are I'm off again, but I'm guessing Capt. Kangaroo.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Mr Wizard
Mac Mac said:
Mr Wizard
Dave wrote:
Mr. Wizard. That series was before my time, I was only 9 when it was cancelled. I either didn't watch it or don't recall ever watching it. On the TV series The Big Bang Theory, Jim Parson's character Sheldon Cooper interacts with a Mr. Wizard based fictional TV actor named Professor Proton, who Sheldon idolized as a child. Sheldon would periodically plague the retired TV actor with his unwelcome devotion for laughs. National treasure Bob Newhart won his only Emmy Award for that character. Favorite Newhart line on BBT: "I'm awake right? This is happening?"
Photos: Mr. Wizard and some kid blow shit up because "science" / Sheldon introduces Bill Nye (Science Guy) to the retired Professor Proton, not knowing that Proton resents Nye as an incompetent usurper that he has hated for years. One of many Big Bang Theory episodes that bring actual people in to interact with the cast.
Micki answered:
Mr. Wizard.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, responded:
At first I thought it might be Captain Kangaroo, but the answer is really Mr. Wizard. I love science.
DJ Useo replied:
I'm surprised I knew this one. For just a second I thought it was Captain Kangaroo, then I remembered.
Mr. Wizard. I had a large fascination for science as a wee lad, & he encouraged that.
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Mr. Wizard
Daniel in The City answered:
Mr Wizard
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Music: "Act Naturally" from the album TOGETHER AGAIN/MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT
Artist: Buck Owens
Location: Bakersfield, California. Mr. Owens is now deceased: 1929-2006.
Info: "Taking its name from the unprecedented double-sided #1 country single, the Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat album established Buck Owens as a top-tier country artist. The two title tracks spent several weeks chasing each other up the country charts in 1964, even switching the #1 and #2 positions in consecutive weeks and then switching back again! Beyond those two classic tracks, the album is filled with other charting singles and well-known songs like 'Hello Trouble,' 'A-11' and 'Close Up the Honky Tonks.' This meticulously remastered Sundazed Music edition also contains two bonus tracks that happen to be two of Buck's biggest hits. 'Love's Gonna Live Here' spent an astonishing 16 (!) weeks at #1 on the country charts in 1963 and Buck's first #1 single, 'Act Naturally,' was soon covered by his Capitol Records label mates The Beatles, who were racking up a few of their own hit singles at the time. The Beatles' version, sung by fan favorite Ringo, helped introduce Buck and his Buckaroos to a whole new audience."
Price: $9.99 (USD) for 14-track album. Tracks cannot be purchased separately.
The wasp trap isn't working as well as hoped - yesterday one of the bastid wasps 'melted' a honey bee.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with the FRESH'The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards', followed by a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 6/2/20) are Keegan-Michael Key and Wes Moore.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 6/3/20) are Rep. Val Demings and M. Ward.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'World Of Dance', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Pierce Brosnan, Nicole Richie, and Blackpink.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 6/15/20) are Pete Davidson and Matthew Rhys.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/13/20) are Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/3/20) is Regina King.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', then a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY fills the night with Rupert's social disinformercials.
AMC offers the movie 'The Karate Kid', followed by a FRESH'Friday Night With The Morgans', then the movie 'The Karate Kid'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Relics
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Schisms
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - True Q
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Rascals
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Fistful of Datas
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Quality of Life
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[1:59PM] SUMMER RENTAL
[3:59PM] EVOLUTION
[5:58PM] BACK TO SCHOOL
[8:00PM] THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN
[10:30PM] THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN
[1:00AM] EVOLUTION
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Quality of Life
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all old 'Below Deck Mediterranean' all night.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'South Park', 2 hours of old 'Key & Peele', and 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny'.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', followed by the movie 'Love, Simon', then the FRESH'Pose-A-Thon For Pride'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Hokus Pokus
[6:25A] The Three Stooges - I'll Never Heil Again
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - I'm a Monkey's Uncle
[6:45A] Lake Placid
[8:30A] Piranha 3D
[10:30A] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[12:30P] The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
[2:30P] Looper
[5:00P] The Fugitive
[8:00P] Top Gun
[10:30P] Gladiator
[2:00A] Point Break
[5:00A] The Three Stooges - Hokus Pokus
[5:25A] The Three Stooges - I'm a Monkey's Uncle
[5:50A] The Three Stooges - Three Little Pigskins (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] along came a spider
[10:00am] the firm
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] the firm
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick', followed by the movie 'Mad Max: Fury Road'.
The Dixie Chicks announced Thursday that they are changing their name and will now go by The Chicks.
The Grammy-winning country trio revealed the news while also dropping their new protest song "March March," from their upcoming album "Gaslighter."
"We want to meet this moment," the group said in a one-sentence statement on its website, signed by band members Natalie Maines, Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Strayer.
Their representative added in a statement: "A sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to 'The Chicks' of NZ for their gracious gesture in allowing us to share their name. We are honored to co-exist together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters. Chicks Rock!"
Disney has announced that it will be retheming the controversial attraction Splash Mountain following years of criticism about the racist origins of the ride.
The revamped version of the attraction will be based on the iconic 2009 animated film Princess and the Frog, featuring Disney's first black princess, Tiana (voiced by Anika Noni Rose).
Splash Mountain is based on the 1946 Disney movie Song of the South, which is based on the Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris, a white Southern author who purported to have heard the stories from black Americans in the 19th century (although there is debate over whether or not this is actually the case). Song of the South depicts what critics say is an overly idealized view of the Reconstruction-era South, featuring anthropomorphized characters that have stereotypically black characteristics and a romanticized relationship between a freed black slave and a young white boy.
Immediately following its premiere, Song of the South was subject to criticism from groups like the NAACP, according to Karina Longworth's podcast You Must Remember This, which devotes a season to the history of the film and Splash Mountain. "The same conversations we're having today about who gets to tell people's stories and who gets to profit off them and what the correct ways of doing that are, are things we were talking about in 1946," Longworth told Rolling Stone last fall.
Despite such criticism, Disney re-released the movie four times in movie theaters between 1956 and 1986. While the company has not officially pulled the film, it has never been released on home video, leading to many fans erroneously referring to it as a "banned" movie. It's also unavailable on the streaming service Disney Plus, with CEO Bob Iger saying at a shareholders meeting that the film is "not appropriate in today's world."
All 23 seasons of the Comedy Central animation South Park are available on HBO Max - except for five episodes that depict Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Sources tell Deadline the missing episodes were not part of the 23-season package shopped by Viacom to streamers last year, and Viacom had made the decision to exclude them in agreement with series producer South Park Studios before the show was licensed to HBO Max.
The controversial episodes violate a widespread Islamic belief that depictions of Muhammad or any of the other prophets of Islam are forbidden, as they encourage the worship of idols. The prohibitions cover images, drawings, statues and cartoons.
The episodes not available on HBO Max include season five's Super Best Friends and season 14's 200 and 201. Those shows had previously been removed from a streaming deal with Hulu and also were axed on the official South Park website. Also not made available to HBO Max were season 10's Cartoon Wars Part I and Cartoon Wars Part 2, although those episodes can still be streamed on the South Park website.
HBO Max licensed South Park last year for a deal estimated at more than $500 million. The series has also been renewed for three more seasons by Comedy Central, with new episodes available on HBO Max 24 hours after initially airing on Comedy Central.
Sir Elton John's ex-wife, Renate Blauel, has launched a legal action against the singer at the high court.
The German-born sound engineer is seeking an injunction against Sir Elton, who she married in 1984.
The couple divorced in 1988, and Sir Elton went on to marry David Furnish, with whom he has two children.
Ms Blauel has kept a low profile since the divorce, but Sir Elton has spoken of his "huge guilt and regret" over the hurt he caused.
The injunction application was filed last week. The trigger for the legal action is unclear, but such measures typically deal with privacy concerns or the publication of personal material.
President Donald Trump (R-Failure) plans to attend a July 3 fireworks show at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota-the first such celebration since 2009. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem has pushed to bring the fireworks back, and she insists the environmental factors are overblown.
"What can burn? It's stone," President Trump said in January.
But the iconic landmark isn't just a single mountain with some faces on it in the middle of a desert, as forests are an essential part of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The ponderosa forest that surrounds the sculpture is a climax community, which is like the apex predator of plants. It's an age-old biosphere that can only be taken down by a catastrophe.
"Shooting fireworks over a ponderosa pine forest, or any flammable vegetation, is ill advised and should not be done. Period," former Mount Rushmore fire management officer Bill Gabbert told the Argus Leader. Indeed, Dynamite Fireworks says in its list of "best practices" that users should clear out "any leaves or other fire hazards" in the area and consider wetting the entire surface of grass within a 500-foot radius.
Certainly an entire ponderosa forest counts as "leaves," but maybe it won't be so bad ... right? Well, rainfall in the Black Hills region is down as much as 50 percent this year compared to average rainfall, and the fire service rates communities surrounding Mount Rushmore at nearly 100 percent more fire risk.
Antarctica's sea ice has crashed in recent years. It's nothing to celebrate, but apparently some Antarctic penguins are loving it. A new study out Wednesday found that a group of Adélie penguins actually thrived during a period of sea ice loss. Don't get too excited, though. This sea ice loss doesn't affect all penguins the same.
The study, published in Science Advances, zoomed into the breeding season in 2016 through 2017 along Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. That year, the region saw tremendous sea ice loss. In fact, the continent set a record low in 2017. Researchers found that, to their surprise, the penguins saw increased body mass, chick growth rates, and breeding success this season compared to the other three ranging from 2010 to 2013.
"It turns out that these penguins are happier with less sea-ice," lead researcher Yuuki Watanabe at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, said in a statement. "This may seem counter-intuitive, but the underlying mechanism is actually quite simple."
The group of 175 birds was able to forage more easily with less sea ice, swimming more to search for food instead of walking. Penguins are faster swimming than walking. As a result, the penguins were able to spend more time foraging while expending less energy. During years of increased ice cover, the penguins were forced to walk farther in search of cracks in the ice where they can dive to forage for krill and fish. Without the ice, the birds were free to dive into the water right in front of their nests. The penguins wound up saving 3.2 to 7.9 hours on the shorter duration trips while covering up to 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) more distance than they would've with more ice.
All this made a measurable difference in the penguins' health. Females saw a 5% to 16% higher body mass while males saw 7% to 17% more. Chicks, on the other hand, grew 34% to 52% more compared to the seasons with higher ice cover. Previous studies had found varying impacts of sea ice loss to penguins, but none had used the types of technologies-GPS, cameras, and accelerometers-in the new study to tease out the mechanisms of what's driving the difference in behavior.
What does 10 years mean to our 4.6 billion-year-old sun? Probably about as much as the last millionth of a second meant to you. Still, every decade that our old sun burns on is a decade of turbulent, sometimes violent change - a fact that becomes beautifully evident in a new time-lapse video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
In the stunning video, titled "A Decade of Sun," astronomers compiled 425 million high-definition images of the sun, snapped once every 0.75 seconds between June 2, 2010 and June 1, 2020. Each second of the video represents one day in the sun's life, and the entire decade blazes by in about 60 minutes (though you can see our 6-minute highlight reel above).
During that decade, the sun undergoes a sea change, slowly bubbling with enormous magnetic ripples known as sunspots, which peaked around 2014 before fading away again. The sun's quiescence wasn't a surprise; every 11 years or so, the sun's magnetic poles suddenly switch places; North becomes South, solar magnetic activity begins to wane, and the sun's surface starts to look like a tranquil sea of yellow fire. This period of relative calm is called a solar minimum (and we are currently in the midst of one).
Halfway between one decade's flip-flop and the next, however, a violent shift occurs. Magnetic activity increases to a vibrant high, known as a solar maximum, and the star's surface ripples with gigantic sunspots, bristles with lashing magnetic field lines and pops with plasma explosions known as solar flares. Each maximum peaks with another magnetic pole reversal, signaling the start of a new solar cycle.
A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country.
Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the country's mining ministry for the gemstones, which had a combined weight of 15kg (33 lb).
It is one of the rarest gemstones on Earth, and one local geologist estimates its supply may be entirely depleted within the next 20 years.
Mr Laizer mined the stones, weighing 9.2kg and 5.8kg, last week, but he sold them on Wednesday during a trading event in the northern region of Manyara.
Until now the largest Tanzanite rock to be mined weighed 3.3kg.
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