• Authors are — of course — very proud of publishing their first book. When physician Joseph K. Shija published his first book, which was about pediatric surgery, he flew home to Tanzania. When the customs official asked him if he had anything to declare, Dr. Shija raised his book in the air for everyone to see and declared that he had published his first book!
War
• When children’s mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon was a teenager, World War II was raging, and one night while she was asleep the Coast Guard fired at what they thought was a Japanese submarine. The next day, her grandmother told her, “I stood here at our bedroom window and watched the bullets trace red lines across the sky. I was terrified. I didn’t know if we were being attacked or we were defending ourselves.” Ms. Nixon was disappointed at not being woken up because she had missed an exciting part of history, but her grandmother explained, “It was a school night. I wouldn’t wake you on a school night. You’re young. You need your sleep.”
• When Stan Berenstain (co-creator of the Berenstain Bears books with his wife, Jan) was a child, he knew that his left eye was much weaker than his right eye; however, he also knew that he was right-handed, so it made sense to him that he must also be right-eyed, and so he never told his parents about his weak left eye. By the time his weak eye was discovered in an eye examination, it was too late to correct the weakness in that eye. As an adult soldier in World War II, for a while he served with other soldiers who were blind or nearly blind in one eye. These soldiers were known informally as the “one-eyed battalion.”
• The creators and writers of M*A*S*H interviewed many, many Army physicians in order to get material for their show, and of course they learned much that they would not have thought up on their own. For example, sometimes in Korea it would be so cold that when a physician made an incision for an operation and steam would rise up from the opening of the patient’s body the physician would warm his hands in the steam. This fact was used in an episode in which a journalist interviewed the physicians and other people of M*A*S*H.
• The Hon. Hugh Fraser, the husband of Lady Antonia Fraser, author of The Weaker Vessel, was a soldier who parachuted into occupied Belgium. She once complimented him on his courage for doing that, but he replied that it would have taken much more courage for him to tell his sergeant that he wasn’t going to jump.
Work
• When he was a young man, Daniel Keyes, author of “Flowers for Algernon,” worked as a waiter for a luncheonette and ice cream parlor, which was owned by an eccentric man named Mr. Sohn. This eccentric man would do such things as take sugar dispensers, salt shakers, and ketchup bottles off the tables and hide them behind the counter — this was an over-reaction to an unfortunate day during which a practical joker had put salt in the sugar dispensers and sugar in the salt shakers. Mr. Sohn also was convinced that someone was stealing his flatware, so he would take the flatware and also hide it. Of course, customers expect such amenities as salt, sugar, ketchup, forks, spoons, and knives, so the waiters had a real problem. However, they figured out what they had to do to provide good service. They used to hide flatware in their pockets and wherever else they could put it, and they figured out ways to distract Mr. Sohn so that their confederates could liberate the sugar dispensers, salt shakers, and ketchup bottles.
Originally named "Chicken Feed", over 35 million pounds of this small, triangular candy staple of the autumn season will be produced this year. What is the name of this ubiquitous Halloween confection?
My Favorite Martian is an American science fiction television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show stars Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara.
A human-looking extraterrestrial in a one-man spaceship nearly collides at high altitude with the U.S. Air Force's rocket plane, the North American X-15. The spaceship's pilot is a 450-year-old anthropologist from Mars. Tim O'Hara, a young newspaper reporter for The Los Angeles Sun, is on his way home from Edwards Air Force Base, where he had gone to report on the flight of the X-15. Returning home to Los Angeles, O'Hara spots the same silver spaceship coming down quickly, after which it crash lands nearby.
Tim takes in the Martian, saying to other people that he is Tim's "Uncle Martin". The Martian refuses to reveal any of his special traits to humans, other than Tim, to avoid both publicity and human panic. Tim agrees to keep the Martian's Earth identity a secret while he attempts to repair his spaceship. "Uncle Martin" has various unusual powers: He can raise two retractable antennae from the back of his head and become invisible; he is telepathic and can read and influence minds; he can levitate objects with the motion of his index finger; he can communicate with animals; he can freeze people or objects, and he can speed himself (and other people) up to do any kind of work.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
My Favorite Martian
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
"My Favorite Martian"
Mark. wrote:
My Favorite Martian.
Alan J answered:
My Favorite Martian.
Cal in Vermont responded:
That would be My Favorite Martian. Meh.
Mac Mac replied:
My favorite Martian
Dave said:
My Favorite Martian. I barely remember it. Ray Walston is probably better remembered as the stern teacher, Mr. Hand, from the film “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (1982). A well regarded character actor, I think “My Favorite Martian” was perhaps Walston’s only starring role. Walston started on NY theater and then found work in TV and films during his 55 year acting career.
Roy, your Libtard Snowflake "Never Trumper" from Tyler, TX wrote:
I was a mere teenager when this show was on for a few seasons. But I can honestly report that I have never, ever, seen even one episode of "My Favorite Martian."
Jacqueline answered:
My Favorite Martian
Stephen F responded:
My Favorite Martian
zorch replied:
My Favorite Martian.
mj said:
Before Matt Damon
Uncle Martin was My Favorite Martian.
Kevin in Washington DC, about 8 blocks from Black Lives Matter Plaza wrote:
My Favorite Mr. Hand?
The Courtship of Eddie’s Martian?
Fast Times With the Incredible Hulk?
I dunno. It’s a stressful time between COVID and the Orange Menace, and the edibles have scrambled my brain.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
My Favorite Martian
John I from Hawai`i says,
My Favorite Martian
Michelle in AZ replied:
My Favorite Martian
David of Moon Valley
ooh ooooh i know this one.....
…it was My Favorite Martian…ah those days of black and white TV shows on the Zenith….
i always liked Ray Walston, a real good character actor and craftsman, for sure…
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
That’s “My Favorite Martian,” a show I never watched. I was more of a “Beverly Hillbillies” kid.
Cool mornings, warm afternoons, the typical autumnal weather I love so much.
Dave in Tucson answered:
The show is My Favorite Martian.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
My Favorite Martian
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is "My Favorite Martian." The martian looked like a human being, except that he had two retractable antennae on the top of his head and I presume he had special powers, but I don't actually remember what they were.
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Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) responded:
I know this one, it's "My Favorite Martian." I knew yesterday's quiz too, but I was going to watch the end of Big Brother then answer and go to bed. Well I fell asleep in my recliner and woke up in time to see Cody win, and went to bed. Tonight I'm taking no chances,
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“They first existed from 1979-1982. They were teenagers who formed out of the ashes of a band called the DeGeneRats. They played with many new-wave and punk bands, confusing audiences everywhere.“Considered a touchstone of the Toronto surf scene, they reunited in 2014.”
Mark Malibu: Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Organ
Stiv T: Drums: Percussion
Sharny: Bass
Wavy Davy: Guitar
Blue Suede Sue: Go-Go
Son of Swankenstein: Bongos & Bananas
“All songs written by Mark Sanders except ‘Questioningly’ by Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Joey Ramone, and Tommy Ramone.”
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $10 (USD) for 14-track album
The most soul-soothing yet terrifying thing I've ever read:
If President Donald Trump loses the 2020 presidential election to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, he will only have a total of 77 days left in office.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Some of the local political ads have what sounds like an audio sub-track in the background - one of them sounds kinda like a Tibetan singing bowl. Another one has a couple of 'clicks', then one 'click', then they repeat, but not in the same order.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'The Greatest #AtHome Videos', followed by a FRESH'The Deciders: A CBS News Special', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jon Stewart.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 9/30/20) is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Nick Offerman, Stacey Abrams, and Busta Rhymes featuring Anderson .Paak.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 10/20/20) are Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander, and Todd Sucherman.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/31/19) are Justin Willman and David Arquette.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/21/20) are Tracee Ellis Ross, Eric Andre, and Tate McRae.
The CW offers the RERUN'The 13 Scariest Movies Of All Time', followed by a FRESH'World's Funniest Animals', then a RERUN'World's Funniest Animals'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - RESURRECTION
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - STATISTICAL PROBABILITIES
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE MAGNIFICENT FERENGI
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WALTZ
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WHO MOURNS FOR MORN?
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - ONE LITTLE SHIP
[12:00PM] INSIDIOUS
[2:29PM] INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2
[4:58PM] INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3
[7:00PM] FRIDAY THE 13TH
[9:00PM] FRIDAY THE 13TH
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] FRIDAY THE 13TH
[2:00AM] FRIDAY THE 13TH
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WALTZ
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WHO MOURNS FOR MORN? (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', followed by the movie 'Fast & Furious', then the movie 'Fast & Furious', again.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office', followed by 3 hours of 'Schitt's Creek'.
FX has the movie 'Get Out', followed by the movie 'Venom', then the movie 'A Quiet Place'.
History has 'MonsterQuest: Feline Beasts', 'MonsterQuest: Predators Of The Deep', followed by a FRESH'MonsterQuest: Real Vampires', and 'MonsterQuest: Dangerous Primates'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 7:00am] Parks And Recreation
[7:30am] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[9:45am] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[12:15pm] From Dusk Till Dawn
[2:45pm] The Lost Boys
[5:00pm] Carrie
[7:15pm] This Is 40
[10:15pm] Zack And Miri Make A Porno (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm - 2:00am] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] law & order
[3:00am] columbo - Murder By The Book
[4:45am] the andy griffith show
[5:20am] the andy griffith show
[5:55am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Leatherface', followed by the movie 'Halloween', then the movie 'The Mask'.
On the Halloween and Election Day-themed episode of his radio show, Bruce Springsteen voices his strong opinion about President Trump (R-Failure), saying, "It is time for an exorcism in our nation's capital."
Springsteen shared two clips from the newest episode of his SiriusXM radio show, "From My Home To Yours," on Twitter Wednesday. The episode's title: "Farewell To The Thief."
In the intro, Springsteen calls for "an exorcism in our nation's capital" as spooky Halloween-themed music plays. "In just a few days, we'll be throwing the bums out," he says. "I thought it was a f***ing nightmare. But it was true."
In a second clip from the episode, the 71-year-old rocker reads a poem by Elaine Griffin Baker about the state of our country under President Trump.
Baker's poem criticizes the president for having "no art... no literature, no poetry, no music" in the White House — not even any pets or kids' science fairs.
"[There's] no time when the president takes off his blue suit, red tie uniform and becomes human, except when he puts on his white shirt and kaki pants uniform and hides from the American people to play golf," Springsteen continues — going on to note the lack of "images of the first family together enjoying themselves together in a moment of relaxation," like the Obamas in Hawaii or the Bush family in Kennebunkport.
Alan Alda isn’t one of the celebrities who regularly backs one candidate or another. However, on Thursday, the former MASH star spoke out against President Trump (R-Corrupt).
In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Alda explained that he was politically active while his (phenomenally successful) show was on the air, from 1972 to 1983, but he shifted gears afterwards.
“After spending a decade doing everything I could to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, I made a decision 37 years ago to keep much quieter in public about my political opinions,” Alda wrote. “If I was going to make a contribution, it should be by doing what I was good at: writing and acting.”
While Alda has been less politically active, he’s done much work in the scientific community in his years since leaving Hawkeye behind. In 2009, he co-founded the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University to help scientist and health professionals to “communicate complex topics in clear, vivid and engaging ways” to the public, including elected officials and the media.
Science — not politics — has been his thing. Then came Trump. Alda made an exception.
Marvel star Scarlett Johansson has married "Saturday Night Live's" Colin Jost. And word of their union came from a most-unexpected place.
According to Meals on Wheels — yes, the nonprofit that combats hunger and isolation among seniors — the "Black Widow" actress and "Weekend Update" host wed over the weekend "in an intimate ceremony with their immediate family and love[d] ones." Rather, a weekend update and a marriage story, all rolled into one.
Johansson, 35, and Jost, 38, followed COVID-19 safety precautions as directed by the CDC, Meals on Wheels' post said, adding that "[t]heir wedding wish is to help make a difference for vulnerable older adults during this difficult time by supporting @mealsonwheelsamerica." The organization asked followers to consider donating to "celebrate the happy couple."
It's the third marriage for Johansson. The Oscar-nominated "Marriage Story" and "Jojo Rbbit" star was wed to actor Ryan Reynolds from 2008 to 2010, and to journalist Romain Dauriac from 2014 to 2017. She and Dauriac share a daughter, Rose, who was born in 2014.
It's the first marriage for Jost. And it sounds like his "SNL" co-writer Michael Ché did not successfully disrupt the nuptials, as planned.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald said Thursday he had resigned from The Intercept after the US investigative media outlet refused to publish his article critical of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
"The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept's editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden," Greenwald said in a blog post.
Greenwald's article accuses news outlets of pro-Biden bias in their standoffish coverage of corruption allegations against the former vice-president's son in a recent New York Post story.
But The Intercept hit back at Greenwald, dismissing him as "a grown person throwing a tantrum," and said it was he who had allowed his standards to drop.
"While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign -- the Trump campaign -- and launder them as journalism," the website said in a statement.
From his lab in Toulouse, France, Benjamin Sanderson models the range of extreme risks to humans from climate change, research he hopes can inform policymakers planning for worsening wildfires and floods. It is the kind of work he once performed in the United States - and hopes to again soon.
Sanderson is among dozens of U.S.-based climate scientists who shifted their research to France, or sought refuge in academia or in left-leaning states like California after Republican Donald Trump was elected in 2016. They worried his administration’s distrust of science would impact their ability to finance and advance their work.
Now, with the presidential election looming - and Democrat Joe Biden ahead in the polls and promising to prioritize the role of science in policymaking - some of these researchers hope for a return to the days when the United States was viewed as the best place on earth to do their jobs.
Climate science in Europe is not treated as a "political topic," Sanderson said, adding that he would consider returning to the United States under an administration that valued scientific input.
The politicization of science has come into sharper focus this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Trump has ridiculed and ignored many research findings and recommendations from the administration's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. filed a state lawsuit Wednesday against the evangelical school founded by his father, claiming he was wrongly ousted from his leadership post.
Falwell had led the school for 13 years before he resigned under pressure in late August amid a series of embarrassing scandals, culminating with him posting to Instagram a photo of himself on his yacht with a woman who was not his wife and with his pants unzipped.
In a complaint in state court in Lynchburg, Virginia, Falwell's lawyers alleged that Liberty defamed Falwell and breached the former president's contract.
"Mr. Falwell has suffered damage to his reputation, damage to his profession, humiliation, and anguish; lost business opportunities; and suffered other pecuniary damage," according to the plaintiff's complaint.
Falwell fell out of favor at Liberty after a former hotel pool attendant-turned-business partner, Giancarlo Granda, 29, told Reuters in an August interview that he carried on an affair with Falwell's wife, Becki, beginning in 2012, when he was 20, and lasting until 2018.
Granda told Reuters that Falwell would watch as he had sex with his wife, and believes the couple preyed upon him.
Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
The U.S. Department of Interior announcement just days ahead of the Nov. 3 election could lead to resumption of wolf hunts in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin -- a crucial battleground in the campaign between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
It's the latest in a series of administration actions on the environment that appeal to key blocs of rural voters in the race’s final days, including steps to allow more mining in Minnesota and logging in Alaska.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz, who opposes recreational wolf hunting, called the decision disappointing and wildlife advocacy groups pledged to fight it in court.
Both feared and revered by people, gray wolves have recovered from near extinction in parts of the country but remain absent from much of their historical range.
For today’s Buddhist monks, Baishiya Karst Cave, 3200 meters high on the Tibetan Plateau, is holy. For ancient Denisovans, extinct hominins known only from DNA, teeth, and bits of bone found in another cave 2800 kilometers away in Siberia, it was a home. Last year, researchers proposed that a jawbone found long ago in the Tibetan cave was Denisovan, based on its ancient proteins. But archaeologist Dongju Zhang of Lanzhou University and her team wanted more definitive evidence, including DNA, the molecular gold standard. So in December 2018, they began to dig, after promising the monks they would excavate only at night and in winter to avoid disturbing worshippers.
After working from dusk to dawn while temperatures outside plunged to –18°C, then covering traces of their dig every morning, the scientists’ persistence paid off. Today in Science, Zhang’s team reports the first Denisovan ancient DNA found outside Denisova Cave: mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gleaned not from fossils, but from the cave sediments themselves. Precise dates show the Denisovans took shelter in the cave 100,000 years and 60,000 years ago, and possibly as recently as 45,000 years ago, when modern humans were flowing into eastern Asia.
The find shows that even though their bones are rare, “Denisovans were widespread in this hemisphere,” says University of Oxford geochronologist Tom Higham, who was not part of the study. It also ends a long quest for Denisovan DNA outside Siberia. “Every year, I’ve said we will find this,” says co-author Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA). “It’s been a decade.”
The presence of Denisovan DNA in the genomes of living people across Asia suggested these ancient humans were widespread. But the partial jaw from Baishiya Karst Cave was the first fossil evidence. Zhang and her colleagues identified the jaw as Denisovan based on a new method that relies on variation in a protein. Some researchers questioned the claim, however, because the method was new, and no one knew where in the cave the jaw had been found.
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