Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823.
Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815 along the river Rhine in Germany stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before, an alchemist engaged in experiments. She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. The topic of galvanism and occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband Percy B. Shelley. Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made, inspiring the novel.
Since the novel's publication, the name "Frankenstein" has often been used to refer to the monster itself. In the novel, Frankenstein's creation is identified by words such as "creature", "monster", "daemon", "wretch", "abortion", "fiend" and "it". Speaking to Victor Frankenstein, the monster says "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" (which ties to Lucifer in Paradise Lost, which the monster reads, and which relates to the disobedience of Prometheus in the book's subtitle).
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The original Prometheus
Stole fire from the gods and gifted it to man. The modern Prometheus was gifted life by fire from the gods (lightning) through the clever artifices of his creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Frankenstein's monster was, however, afraid of fire.
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Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein carries the subtitle "The Modern Prometheus."
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• When future comic artist Phoebe Gloeckner was 16 years old, she sent a fan letter to comic artist Aline Kaminski Crumb to say, "Dear Aline, I love your work." Aline was kind enough to write back. Later, Aline's boyfriend and future husband, the famous comic artist R. Crumb, played with a band called the Cheap Suit Serenaders in a club in San Francisco, Phoebe's home city, and Phoebe's mother took Phoebe to the concert. During a break, Phoebe's mother spoke to R. Crumb: "My daughter sent your girlfriend a fan letter. She really likes you guys." Amazingly, R. Crumb replied, "Is her name Phoebe? That was the only fan letter Aline ever got from a girl."
• After dancing the first act of Giselle in Mexico, Alicia Markova was surrounded by eager souvenir-seekers who had danced the roles of the peasants in Act 1 and who began to snip off locks of her hair. Her sister, Doris, pleaded with them to leave some hair for the second act, but Ms. Markova was able to stop them only by promising them souvenirs from her dressing room. After the ballet, the souvenir-seekers descended on her dressing room and carried away hairnets and powder puffs and other small items.
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• When Latina author Sandra Cisneros speaks to young children, sometimes she will show them her 5th-grade report card, which lacks A's. She says, "I have C's and D's in everything …. The only B I had was in conduct. But I don't remember being that stupid." (Later, some teachers encouraged her.) Stupid she is not. In 1995, she won a MacArthur Foundation grant, aka a Genius Grant. She did go to college, something that her father did not oppose - chiefly because he regarded college as a good place for a woman to find a husband. Getting her father's approval of her writing is one of her greatest accomplishments in life. One Christmas, two years after her father had a stroke, she visited him and gave him one of her stories - translated into Spanish - to read. He laughed in all the right places, and he asked if some of the characters were based on people he knew. She remembers, "When he was finally finished [reading the story], after what seemed like hours, my father looked up and asked, 'Where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?'"
• When Alicia Markova, nee Alicia Marks, was eight years old, she danced briefly for Anna Pavlova at the great Russian ballerina's apartment. Young Alicia noticed that Ms. Pavlova was wearing mauve clothing, and mauve instantly became her favorite color. After Alicia had danced for Ms. Pavlova and had received some valuable advice, the great Pavlova rubbed her down with eau de cologne and lectured her about the importance of a dancer's avoiding colds. As Alicia and her father were going home after meeting Ms. Pavlova, they stopped at a drugstore, where her father bought her a bottle of eau de cologne with a mauve bow.
• When World War II broke out, a call went out to the Navajo Nation for volunteers to join the war effort for an important assignment. Carl Gorman, the father of Navajo artist R.C. Gorman, volunteered, enlisting in the United States Marines. Carl was actually too old to enlist, being one year older than the age limit of 35, but he simply altered his birth certificate and enlisted anyway. He became one of the famed Navajo Code Talkers who created a code that the Japanese were unable to break. Later, he became an artist, exhibiting in several two-man shows with his son.
• Isaac Asimov's father was proud of him and would not let him read such pulp magazines as Weird Tales and Thrilling Stories because in his opinion they were trash. However, he did let Isaac read Science Wonder Stories because it had "Science" in the title. This soon became some of Isaac's favorite reading. As a child, Isaac was sometimes unusual. He liked cemeteries because they were peaceful and quiet. However, a caretaker once asked him to stop whistling when he was in the cemetery because he was upsetting mourners.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'All Rise', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jane Fonda, Tan France, and Miranda Lambert.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 12/4/19) are John Travolta, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Sam Taylor-Johnson.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent: The Champions', followed by a FRESH'Manifest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Shaquille O'Neal, Jacqueline Novak, and Lil Baby.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, David Byrne, H.E.R., and Caitlin Kalafus.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Russell Peters and Michael Ealy.
ABC fills the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Tiffany Haddish, "The Bachelor" Peter Weber, and Pharrell Williams.
The CW offers a RERUN'Supergirl', followed by a RERUN'Crisis Aftermath'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Live PD: Police Patrol', another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', then another FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', followed by the movie 'Titanic'.
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[6:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Age Of Steel-Part 2.
[7:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
[8:05AM] DOCTOR WHO: RESOLUTION
[9:30AM] THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)
[12:30PM] THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013)
[3:30PM] THE TRANSPORTER (2002)
[5:30PM] TRANSPORTER 3 (2008)
[8:00PM] THE TRANSPORTER (2002)
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[12:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - Spyfall, Part One
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Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then another FRESH'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Only The Brave', followed by the movie 'American Made', then the movie 'American Made', again.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers: Bonus Buys', and another 'American Pickers'.
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[1:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Crawling Eye
[3:10A] Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
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[1:30pm] Silverado
[4:30pm] Magnum Force
[7:00pm] The Enforcer
[9:00pm] The Devil's Advocate
[12:00am] The Devil's Advocate
[3:00am] Road to Perdition
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation'.
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On a RERUNConan (from 10/30/19) is Deon Cole.
After becoming Disney's 6th film of 2019 to cross the $1B threshold worldwide when it hit the milestone in mid-December, Frozen 2 has now capitalized on holiday play to become the biggest animated movie of all time globally. With an estimated $1.325B, the Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee-helmed sequel has iced the previous record holder, Frozen ($1.281B), as well as Incredibles 2 ($1.243B), to take over the crown. The current split on F2 is $449.9M domestic and $875.3M at the international box office. The top three animated titles ever on a worldwide basis are now all Disney Animation/Pixar releases.
Frozen 2 has double Golden Globe nominations tonight, in both the Animated Feature and Best Original Song categories. It will go up against stablemates Toy Story 4 and The Lion King in the animated race (although The Lion King officially falls under Disney's Live Action umbrella) and against TLK in Original Song.
Individual holds were strong during the post-New Year play with Russia up by 156% and Japan also up, by 4%. Elsewhere the drops were slight: Netherlands (-12%), Belgium (-17%), Chile (-20%), Czech Rep (-20%), UK (-24%), Austria (-24%), Switzerland (-24%), Germany (-26%), New Zealand (-26%), Spain (-27%), Mexico (-28%) and Australia (-32%).
The Top 5 offshore markets to date are China ($118.8M), Japan ($103.8M), Korea ($96.2M), the UK ($65M) and Germany ($55.1M). On the previous film, Japan was ultimately in the lead with a staggering $249M (and a No. 1 hold for 16 weeks); followed by Korea, the UK, Germany and China. Frozen 2 went out in a different release pattern to that of the original, which took 15 weeks to get to $1B, whereas the current movie did it in just four frames. Overseas, Frozen 2 is expected to do at least $950M.
On Saturday night, Nirvana's surviving members reunited at Los Angeles's Hollywood Palladium for the 13th annual Heaven gala, a charity event held by the Art of Elysium (a non-profit organization that pairs volunteer artists with individuals in need).
Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Novoselic, and guitarist Pat Smear were joined onstage by St. Vincent, who lent her vocals to opening number "Lithium," and by Beck, who crooned "In Bloom," "Been a Son," and Nirvana's iconic MTV Unplugged version of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World." (Beck also amusingly recalled that the "most insane mosh pit" he'd ever experienced in his life - one that actually left his hands bleeding - was at Nirvana's Palladium show in 1990.)
However, the most memorable moment of Nirvana's five-song set was when Grohl's 13-year-old daughter, Violet, emerged onstage to sing "Heart-Shaped Box" with the band. The younger Grohl seemed undaunted by the mighty task, looking surprisingly Cobain-like with her bleached bob and baggy clothes as she intoned the dark and brooding In Utero classic, while her father and his all-star cohorts bashed and crashed behind her.
Dave, who has performed Foo Fighters, Adele, and Billie Eilish songs with Violet at past concerts, seemed more than happy to cede the spotlight to his daughter. Event co-chair Kerry Brown revealed onstage that when he'd asked the elder Grohl if he was excited for Saturday's show, the current Foos frontman exclaimed, "Are you f***ing kidding me? I get to play the drums tonight!"
Police in Florida got quite the surprise when they responded to a call reporting the sounds of a woman in distress, only to discover it was just an extremely vocal parrot.
"Our deputies in Lake Worth Beach came to the help of someone screaming for help," the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post on Saturday. "Hilarity ensued."
Quoting the parrot's owner, whose identity was not revealed to the public, the post shared that the man was working on his wife's car in the driveway last week while his parrot, Rambo, sat near the home's entrance singing and talking to himself. Rambo's cries of "Let me out! Let me out! Ohhh! Ohhh! Ohhh!" were so lifelike that a neighbor called the police, concerned that a woman was actually in trouble.
"I was changing the brakes on my wife's car and had my 40-year-old parrot, Rambo, on his outside perch where he sings and talks. Sometime later four police officers showed up saying a neighbor called because she heard a woman screaming for help," the owner said. "I promptly introduced the officers to Rambo and we all had a good laugh."
"I'll bring out the screamer to you," Rambo's owner can be heard saying to the officers in the video as they stand in the driveway. He then walks off camera and grabs Rambo, a bright green and yellow parrot, and introduces him to the police.
A celebrated Japanese sushi businessman, nicknamed "Tuna King", paid $1.8 million for a giant tuna at New Year's auction at Tokyo's main fish market on Sunday.
Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a successful sushi restaurant chain, paid 193 million yen ($1.8 million) to purchase a 276-kilogramme (608-pound) bluefin tuna, caught off the Aomori region in northern Japan.
Media-savvy Kimura regularly pays top price at the first auction of the year at the Japanese capital's main fish market, making himself and his business a fixture in national news during this season.
In last year's new year auction, Kimura paid a record $3.1 million to win a 278-kilogramme (612-pound) tuna.
The traditional auction is now being held in a new market in an area called Toyosu.
Abdullah Abu Rahma has been arrested by Israeli soldiers eight times in the last 15 years, spending weeks or months in prison and paying tens of thousands of dollars in fines for organizing protests.
He's among a growing number of Palestinians who have embraced non-violent means of protesting Israel's military rule and expanding settlements, and who are increasingly finding those avenues of dissent blocked.
Israel says the Palestinians should address their grievances in peace talks. But negotiations ground to a halt more than a decade ago, and the current government's position on core issues is rejected by the Palestinians and most of the international community.
More than 50 years after occupying the West Bank, Israel is still systematically denying Palestinians civil rights, including the right to gather, Human Rights Watch said in a report released last month. Israel has also stepped up its campaign against the Palestinian-led international boycott movement, and the United States and other countries have adopted legislation to suppress it.
Israel has also come down hard on Palestinian attempts to seek redress at the International Criminal Court. Last month, after a five-year preliminary investigation, the court said it was ready to open a full investigation pending a ruling on territorial jurisdiction. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the court's decision "pure anti-Semitism."
One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, a towering ice-covered cone in the Aleutian Islands, shot a cloud of ash more than 5 miles (8 km) high on Friday, triggering a warning to aviators and putting on a show that was captured in satellite imagery.
The ash burst from Shishaldin Volcano, about 670 miles (1,080 km) southwest of Anchorage, was part of an on-and-off, mostly low-level series of eruptions that began in July with a stream of lava from the crater at the peak of the 9,373-foot-tall (2,869-meter) mountain.
The ash plume was spotted by a pilot and was visible in satellite images captured from space. It drifted over the sea at least 75 miles (120 km) southeast of the volcano, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported.
No communities were affected by ashfall or were otherwise in danger as of Friday morning, said David Fee of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, a coordinating scientist with the observatory.
The National Weather Service issued an alert, and air traffic was advised to steer clear of Shishaldin, though aviators were already avoiding the volcano well before Friday because of earlier activity, Fee said.
When the Greenland ice sheet went into a record meltdown in the summer of 2019, it raised a very terrifying specter of the future. Here was a 12.5-billion-ton mass of ice-one that's been melting at a quickening pace since the 1980s-melting in a way scientists didn't expect to happen for decades.
While the ice sheet won't completely disappear for centuries, any further increase in its melt will put coastal communities at risk of inundation. There's an argument to be made that we should do everything possible to save the ice, and a new study explores a very controversial idea to that end: cooling the planet.
The findings, published last month in Earth's Future, explore what would happen if the world pumped particles high into the atmosphere that would reflect sunlight back into space. This high-altitude air conditioning scheme, known as solar radiation management or SRM, would bring down the global average temperature. The paper's results show that cooling would help slow-though not stop-the melting of the ice sheet. That could buy coastal regions time but also change the climate in other ways that may end up hurting other regions around the world.
The threats to Greenland ice are coming from seemingly all directions. Relatively hot water has undercut the glaciers tumbling down from the ice sheet, while rising air temperatures have melted it from above. Recent wildfires have also left a cake of dark soot that absorbs more sunlight, enhancing surface melt. And then there are surface pools of water that funnel into cracks in the ice, further destabilizing it. In short, climate change is engaged in an all-out war on the ice sheet that will only intensify in the coming century. Projections indicate the ice sheet melting could lead to anywhere from 10 to 20 centimeters (4 to 8 inches) of sea level rise this century, with much higher rates of rise in the Pacific.
To understand the impact geoengineering could have on Greenland, scientists ran models that simulate the climate throughout the century under a few different scenarios. In some scenarios, greenhouse gas pollution increased throughout the century or peaked by mid-century. They then took those same scenarios and added in a splash of geoengineering. The models they ran basically shot particles into the stratosphere around the equator that then dispersed around the globe. The impacts are based in part on what happens after volcanic eruptions, and the study used the equivalent a quarter of a Pinatubo eruption every year.
Aliens exist and they could be living among us, the first British astronaut into space has said.
Dr Helen Sharman, who went into space 28 years ago, said it is without a doubt that "all sorts of forms of life" are alive in the universe - but perhaps we "simply can't see them" as they are so different to humanity.
"Aliens exist, there's no two ways about it," Dr Sharman told the Observer Magazine. "There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of forms of life.
"Will they be like you and me, made up of carbon and nitrogen? Maybe not. It's possible they're right here right now and we simply can't see them."
Dr Sharman beat over 13,000 others to earn a spot in Project Juno, which was partially designed to boost London-Moscow relations by sending a Briton to the Russian space station Mir.
The box office in 2020 started off where last year left off: with "Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker" still on top.
"Jumanji: The Next Level" added $26.5 million in its fourth week, bringing its domestic total to $236 million and its global gross past $600 million.
Greta Gerwig's "Little Women," meanwhile, is becoming an outright hit. The Louisa May Alcott adaptation has been the top adult-oriented choice through the busy holiday season. With $13.6 million in its second weekend and strong business overseas, "Little Women" has grossed $80 million worldwide in two weeks. It was made for a modest $40 million.
The week's only new release also came from Sony. "The Grudge," a horror reboot of the 2004 remake produced by Sam Raimi, opened with $11.3 million. That was a fair total for a movie that cost $10 million to make and received some withering reaction from critics and audiences. "The Grudge" scored just 18% on Rotten Tomatoes and engendered a rarely seen F CinemaScore from moviegoers.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.
1. "Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker," $33.7 million ($50.5 million international).
2. "Jumanji: The Next Level," $26.5 million ($42.4 million international).
3. "Little Women," $13.6 million ($9.5 million international).
4. "The Grudge," $11.3 million ($5.8 million international).
5. "Frozen 2," $11.3 million ($42.4 million international).
6. "Spies in Disguise," $10.1 million ($15.8 million international).
7. "Knives Out," $9 million ($8.8 million international).
8. "Uncut Gems," $7.8 million.
9. "Bombshell," $4.1 million.
10. "Cats," $2.6 million ($4.3 million international).
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