Mary Beard: The joys of marking . . . or 'grading'. (TLS)
For a start, all the scripts are anonymous and, as you never see students' handwriting any more, you don't even recognise the familiar scrawl of those you have taught yourself. Then in our system every script is marked blind by two examiners. […] is more of a mixture of first and second class work. Afterwards the two examiners for each paper get together to produce an agreed mark (and if their original marks are significantly apart they have to produce a written account of how they reached agreement).
Michael Gregor, MD: Foods with Negative Calories (NutritionFacts.org)
Maybe negative calorie foods are not a myth after all, though. Researchers at Penn State offered people a meal of pasta and instructed them to eat as much as they wanted. What do you think happened when they gave people a small salad in addition to the all-you-can-eat pasta? The subjects consumed about 50 calories of salad. Were those 50 extra salad calories in addition to the pasta calories? No. Subjects ended up eating less pasta overall, and not just 50 calories less. They consumed 65 fewer calories of pasta.
Andrew Tobias: Hiccups And Hangovers, Redux - And Freegans!
Two sealed quarts of yogurts sat in a fridge, one dated October 11, 2015, the other July 17, 2017. Which to choose? I was looking for something to blend cocoa powder into - I only Cook Like A Guy™, but even a guy can dump cocoa powder into yogurt - and decided to be sensible and use the older one first.
Named after St. Erasmus of Formia, what is the name of the weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere?
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum. A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure; the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is bromine, though metals such as caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Mercury.
Alan J answered:
Mercury.
mj wrote:
Liquid cinnabar
Mercury.
zorch said:
That metal is Mercury Hg.
Roy, AKA The Blue Texan, replied:
I knew the answer to today's question, but just for shits & giggles, I did a little Googleing on the subject. Here's a little snippet of what I found: "A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure; the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is bromine, though metals such as caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature."
When I was a kid, we used to get and play with mercury by breaking a thermometer, but I hear kids today find it more readily available from fresh, saltwater fish.
Gene wrote:
Mercury.
Pictured-my favorite, very mercurial personification of the element.
Dave responded:
Mercury (Quicksilver). Hg on the periodic table. Named after the Roman god, who was adapted from the Greek god Hemes. During the Roman Empire, Mercury was considered one of the most popular gods, for what that is worth?
Jon L replied:
That would have to be Mercury, wouldn't it?
Deborah said:
Hmmm…I'm going with mercury. I don't know any other metallic element that fits that criteria.
In other news, TGIF!
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Ransom', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Taken', followed by 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Natalie Portman hosting, music by Dua Lipa.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Crossing', followed by another FRESH'The Crossing', then '20/20'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by an old 'Rizzoli & Isles'.
A&E has 'Live PD: Rewind', followed by a FRESH'Live PD', then the FRESH'Gotti: Godfather & Son'.
AMC offers the movie 'Tombstone', followed by the movie 'Tombstone', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 22-Quagmire
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Wetwired
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 14-Memento Mori
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 4-Detour
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 19-Folie a Deux
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 3-Triangle
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 4-Dreamland
[1:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 5-Dreamland II
[2:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 8 - EPISODE 15-Deadalive
[3:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 15-Arcadia
[4:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 19-The Unnatural
[5:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 21-Field Trip
[6:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 22-Biogenesis
[7:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 1-The Sixth Extinction
[8:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 2-The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
[9:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 4-Millennium
[10:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 17-all things
[11:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 8 - EPISODE 15-Deadalive
[12:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 15-Arcadia
[1:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 19-The Unnatural
[2:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 21-Field Trip
[3:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 22-Biogenesis
[4:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 1-The Sixth Extinction
[5:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 2-The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Superbad', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', then the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Tammy', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', then the movie 'Step Brothers'.
FX has the movie 'The Heat', followed by the movie 'The Martian'.
History has 'Cocaine: History Between The Lines', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars: Pumped Up'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
[8:30AM] THE SOCIAL NETWORK
[11:00AM] BROCKMIRE-Retirement Ceremony
[11:30AM] BROCKMIRE-Make-Up 12:00PMBROCKMIRE-Broadcasters Jinx
[12:30PM] BROCKMIRE-Caught in a Rundown
[1:00PM] THE SOCIAL NETWORK
[3:30PM] THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
[6:00PM] TRANSPORTER 2
[8:00PM] CHRONICLE
[10:00PM] JUMPER
[12:00AM] TRANSPORTER 2
[2:00AM] CHRONICLE
[4:00AM] JUMPER (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:25am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:35am] the andy griffith show
[8:10am] the andy griffith show
[8:45am] the andy griffith show
[9:20am] the andy griffith show
[9:55am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] ruthless people
[12:30pm] silver streak
[3:00pm] m*a*s*h
[3:30pm] m*a*s*h
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[4:30pm] m*a*s*h
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[10:00pm] m*a*s*h
[10:30pm] m*a*s*h
[11:00pm] m*a*s*h
[11:30pm] m*a*s*h
[12:00am] airplane ii: the sequel
[2:00am] blazing saddles
[4:00am] silver bullet (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Lake Placid Vs. Anaconda', followed by the movie 'Lake Placid: Legacy'.
Missing for more than 50 years, recordings by jazz legend John Coltrane leading the quartet behind his masterpiece "A Love Supreme" are coming out as a posthumous album.
Impulse! Records announced Friday that it will release "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album," recorded in 1963 and never heard before publicly, on June 29.
Coltrane recorded the seven tracks with his classic quartet -- Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums and McCoy Tyner on piano -- at the New Jersey studio of jazz enthusiast Rudy Van Gelder, an initially makeshift space in a living room that became a go-to spot for artists.
The lost tapes were discovered by the family of Coltrane's first wife, Juanita Naima Coltrane, who had preserved them at the family home in Queens.
Two songs on the upcoming album have never been heard in any form and feature Coltrane performing on soprano saxophone, not the tenor for which he was better known. The recordings also include an alternative version of "Impressions," one of Coltrane's better-known compositions without the usual piano.
Canada's Senate passed a bill Thursday legalizing recreational marijuana, moving it closer to becoming the first member of the Group of Seven nations to legalize the production, sale and consumption of the drug.
Bill C-45, or the Cannabis Act, passed the Senate with 52 votes for, 30 against and one abstention after months of debate over the ramifications of legalization.
The Cannabis Act will now go back to the House of Commons, which passed the bill in November 2017 but needs to sign off on changes made by the Senate.
Legalizing weed was a 2015 campaign promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has admitted having smoked a joint with friends "five or six times."
The initial timeline for legal pot sales called for it to be available by July 1, Canada's national day, but fall now appears more likely.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have truly created a monster.
A team of researchers who specialize in the darker side of artificial intelligence made news again this week for their latest creation: "Norman," a machine-learning bot that "sees death in whatever image it looks at," its creators told HuffPost.
Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan wanted to prove that an artificial intelligence algorithm would be influenced by the kind of content fed to it. So they made Norman, named for "Psycho" character Norman Bates, and had it read image captions from a Reddit forum that features disturbing footage of people dying. (We don't need to promote it here.)
"Due to ethical and technical concerns and the graphic content of the videos, we only utilized captions of the images, rather than using the actual images that contain the death of real people." the scientists said in an email.
The team then showed Norman randomly generated inkblots and compared the way it captioned the images to the captions created by a standard AI. For instance, where a standard AI sees, "A black and white photo of a small bird," Norman sees, "Man gets pulled into dough machine."
Someone alert the brigadier general - the Colonel has gone rogue.
That's "Colonel" as in Colonel Sanders, the expansive chicken frying empire that is reportedly developing a vegetarian chicken substitute to test out in the U.K. sometime in 2019.
We don't know how KFC plans to make its veggie chicken substitute, but presumably the global chain won't just wing it. Popular meatless alternatives currently include seitan, a high-protein product made of wheat gluten, and a number of soy-based alternatives.
A KFC spokesperson said its meat-free research is part of a broader push at the chain to reduce calories per serving by 20 percent and introduce a number of lower calorie options.
Fried chicken connoisseurs looking to sample KFC's vegetarian creation in the U.S. are out of luck. For the time being, the menu will only be offered in the U.K., and only on a provisional basis.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized phone and email records of New York Times' journalist Ali Watkins as part of the agency's investigation into a leak of classified information.
The records encompass Ms Watkins' time before she joined the newspaper, while she was reporting for BuzzFeed News and thenPolitico, on national security matters. It is the first known seizure of journalists' data by the administration of President Donald Trump and the DOJ led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The records are part of the DOJ's investigation into whether James Wolfe, the Senate Intelligence Committee's former director of security, had given controlled information to the media. FBI agents had previously questioned Ms Watkins about a three-year romantic relationship Ms Watkins had with Mr Wolfe, which she had disclosed to all her editors. Mr Wolfe has been arrested on suspicion of lying to the FBI about his contact with reporters.
Ms Watkins, who now covers federal law enforcement, was informed of the records seizure in February 2018 and the New York Times' said it "suggested that prosecutors under the Trump administration will continue the aggressive tactics employed under President Barack Obama".
Though she had been informed months ago, a letter only reached Ms Watkins and the newspaper on 7 June. The agency had obtained several years of her data from Google and Verizon for two email accounts and a phone number registered in her name. "Investigators did not obtain the content of the messages themselves," the newspaper reported.
The suicide rate across the United States has risen 30 percent since 1999, and nearly 45,000 people took their lives in 2016, officials said Thursday.
Suicide presents a "growing public health problem," with significant increases in 44 of the 50 states, said the report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Suicide is "a tragedy for families and communities across the country," said CDC principal deputy director Anne Schuchat.
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and is rarely caused by a single factor, experts say.
The study, which spanned 1999 to 2016, found that more than half of people who killed themselves did not have a known diagnosed mental health condition at the time of death.
The Mediterranean could become a "sea of plastic", the WWF warned on Friday in a report calling for measures to clean up one of the world's worst affected bodies of water.
The WWF said the Mediterranean had record levels of "micro-plastics," the tiny pieces of plastic less than five millimetres (0.2 inches) in size which can be found increasingly in the food chain posing a threat to human health.
"The concentration of micro-plastics is nearly four times higher" in the Mediterranean compared with open seas elsewhere in the world, said the report, "Out of the Plastic Trap: Saving the Mediterranean from Plastic Pollution."
The problem, as all over the world, is simply that plastics have become an essential part of our daily lives while recycling only accounts for a third of the waste in Europe.
Plastic represents 95 percent of the waste floating in the Mediterranean and on its beaches, with most coming from Turkey and Spain, followed by Italy, Egypt and France, the report said.
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