Mary Beard: Style Guides (TLS)
That said, Mogg maybe has a point in looking for internal consistency, and probably a worry in how that might be achieved. To put it another way, there are very few people who are happy to read a thesis or a newspaper or a book which uses (say) BC/AD apparently randomly alongside BCE/CE. I am currently finishing the manuscript of a book and spend, I think, more time at this stage getting the conventions consistent than I do in checking the facts.
Eric Holthaus: July Was the Hottest Month in Human History (Rolling Stone)
"The heat record doesn't surprise me, it's exactly what the science predicts," said Sarah Myhre, a climate scientist and executive director of the Rowan Institute, an organization focused on justice and equity in climate solutions. "Violent and mediocre careerists, executives, and political leaders are profiteering off of the suffering of the children of the world, especially the children and families of the global south. Why do we continue to be surprised by the breaking heat records rather than the malicious and incompetent inaction by public leaders?"
Dana Czapnik: From everyteen to annoying: are today's young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye? (The Guardian)
So, here's my proposal to readers coming to The Catcher in the Rye for the first time now: read it as early as possible in your life. Read it alongside Ralph Ellison, Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, Junot Díaz, Toni Morrison, André Aciman and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Hate it if you must. Rail against Holden. Call him a spoiled brat. When it comes to all the money and opportunity he squanders, he is! Let 20 years pass. Let the world wash over you, then read it again. You might see Holden for who he really is. Not a stand-in for every single teenager that ever walked the Earth, but a lonely individual who finds the injustices of the world intolerable.
In geology, a boulder is a rock fragment with size greater than 25.6 centimetres (10.1 in) in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually just called rocks or stones. The word boulder is short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulderston or Swedish bullersten.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
A boulder has a diameter greater than 25.6 centimeters.
Dave wrote:
Six tons of granite and micaceous schist. In the season 11 episode, "The Solo Oscillation," Bert joins Raj and Howard's band, Footprints on the Moon, for a bar mitzvah performance where they play Bert's composition of "Six Tons of Granite and Micaceous Schist." The song is told from the perspective of the round boulder that was set up as a booby trap in the first Indiana Jones film. The song was not released as a single so it didn't make the Billboard Hot 100 chart, although it can be found on YouTube.
Photos: Indiana Jones trying to escape the boulder | Bert on stage with Raj and Howard performing the song that honors "the greatest boulder in cinema history" to a perplexed audience.
mj said:
As one of 10 people who has never watched the show
Except for the final scenes (in syndication) while waiting for the TV to
fully sync so I can change the channel, I'm guessing big enough to hide
behind when you have to take a leak.
zorch responded:
A boulder has to be bigger than 25 cm or 10.1 inches
Adam answered:
IRL- 10". I'm not sure what Bert thinks.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
In geology, a boulder is a rock fragment with size greater than 25.6 centimetres (10.1 in) in diameter
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Huh. Dunno.
Saskplanner said:
Haha.
The size of your head? I'll go google it now....
Deborah responded:
Gosh, as much as I love BBT and watch reruns (because I didn't watch the first couple of seasons, I'd expect to know the answer. If I knew it, I've forgotten it, so there we are.
Joe S answered:
A boulder has a diameter of greater than 25.6 centimeters. ROCK SHOW! ROCK SHOW! ROCK SHOW!
My Petoskey boulder.
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• Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1797-1848) wrote 75 operas and influenced Giuseppe Verdi. When he died, he was given an autopsy during which the top of his skull was removed. When his body was dug up in 1875 so that it could be moved to another location, the top of his skull was discovered to be missing. It turned out that an Austrian military physician named Gerolamo Carchen, who had watched the autopsy, had taken the piece of skull as a souvenir. For several years, the piece of skull was exhibited in a Bergamo museum dedicated to Donizetti, and then in 1951 it was buried with the rest of his bones.
• On November 29, 1924, Giacomo Puccini died. However, he left behind him one last musical masterpiece. On April 25, 1926, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted the world premiere of Turandot. When the last note of the opera was finished, Maestro Toscanini told the audience, "Here the master laid down his pen."
• This anecdote is touching. After Enrico Caruso died, his widow, Dorothy, played one of his recordings. Their young daughter, Gloria, heard the recording and toddled into the room, holding her arms up and saying, "Daddy! Daddy!"
Divas
• Alexander Woollcott was seldom abashed by the great personalities of the arts, but when Grace Moore and he, along with other notables such as Harpo Marx, were invited to a luncheon with the great soprano Mary Garden, he was quiet at the luncheon - something very unusual for him. Ms. Garden, annoyed at Mr. Woollcott, did all the talking, telling the story of how she became famous by singing the role of Louise after the original soprano suffered from laryngitis. On that night, Albert Carré, the director of the Opéra Comique, came looking for her, telling her, "You have to go on as Louise. I've been told you've learned the role." As she prepared to go on, she told herself, "Mary Garden, this is your moment. Tomorrow Paris will be at your feet!" All happened as she had predicted. She scored a major success, and all the opera lovers of Paris adored her. After Ms. Garden had told this tale, Mr. Woollcott, thinking that it would make a wonderful magazine article, said, "My God, what a story - what a beginning!" Ms. Garden looked at him and said, "But that, my dear Woollcott, is a story which you cannot use in Cosmopolitan or any other magazine." As Mr. Woollcott and Ms. Moore drove away after the luncheon, he told her, "Well, regardless of my apparent lack of success, there is the most charming and eloquent b*tch I have ever met."
• Once a diva, always a diva. When soprano Nellie Melba appeared for the last time at Covent Garden, she gave a remarkable performance, and she seemed overwhelmed at the applause she received at the end of La Bohéme. The stagehands were worried that she would collapse because of all her emotion, so they drew the curtains. Ms. Melba immediately recovered completely and snapped at the stagehands, "Pull back those bloody curtains at once!" They did so, and in front of the audience she once again seemed overwhelmed by emotion and about to collapse.
• Maria Callas once appeared at the Chicago Lyric Theater in Madama Butterfly. Backstage, while she was still dressed in her kimono costume, a law official served her with a subpoena regarding a breach of contract. Aghast, she stormed at the law official, "How dare you! I am a goddess!" Of course, many members of the media were present, and of course, as anyone familiar with the work of theatrical guru Danny Newman would guess, it was Mr. Newman who had alerted the media to be present at the diva's display of fireworks.
• Opera is known for its divas. For example, soprano Kathleen Battle of the Metropolitan Opera of New York once rode in a limousine in which the air conditioning was set too high. She telephoned her manager to request that she telephone the chauffeur and order that the air conditioning be turned down.
• Italian diva Angelica Catalani once complained about a rug that had been placed on stage, saying that it was not good enough for her to place her feet on. After her complaints, the rug was taken away and thereafter she placed her feet on a rare Italian scarf.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Million Dollar Mile', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Bring The Funny', followed by 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Idris Elba hosting, music by Khalid.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a RERUN'Press Your Luck', then a RERUN'Card Sharks'.
The CW offers a lotta '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'PBC Fight Night', 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', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's European Vacation', then the movie 'Vegas Vacation'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 14-Grotesque
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 17-Pusher
[8:00AM] SUPER 8 (2011)
[10:31AM] FACE/OFF (1997)
[1:33PM] THE TRANSPORTER 3
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Cape
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Sahara
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Congo
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Kalahari
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Savannah
[9:00PM] WILD CITY: SINGAPORE SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Urban Wild
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Cape
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Sahara
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Kalahari
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Savannah
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Congo
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Future
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE MAKING OF AFRICA
[5:00AM] WILD CITY: SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Urban Wild (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing NY', followed by the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', then the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'CHiPS', followed by the movie '21 Jump Street'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Batman-Give 'Em the Axe
[6:33A] Batman-The Joker Trumps an Ace
[7:06A] Batman-Batman Sets the Pace
[7:39A] Batman-The Curse of Tut
[8:12A] Batman-The Pharaoh's in a Rut
[8:45A] The Three Stooges-Heavenly Daze
[9:05A] The Three Stooges-Movie Maniacs
[9:30A] Knife Fight
[11:45A] Ladybugs
[1:45P] The Pink Panther 2
[3:45P] The Pink Panther
[5:45P] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[8:00P] We're the Millers
[10:30P] We're the Millers
[1:00A] The Pink Panther
[3:00A] The Pink Panther 2
[5:00A] Ladybugs (ALL TIMES EDT)
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[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00amT] he Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] M*A*S*H
[11:30am] M*A*S*H
[12:00pm] M*A*S*H
[12:30pm] M*A*S*H
[1:00pm] M*A*S*H
[1:30pm] M*A*S*H
[2:00pm] M*A*S*H
[2:30pm] M*A*S*H
[3:00pm] M*A*S*H
[3:30pm] M*A*S*H
[4:00pm] M*A*S*H
[4:30pm] M*A*S*H
[5:00pm] M*A*S*H
[5:30pm] M*A*S*H
[6:00pm] M*A*S*H
[6:30pm] M*A*S*H
[7:00pm] M*A*S*H
[7:30pm] M*A*S*H
[8:00pm] M*A*S*H
[8:30pm] M*A*S*H
[9:00pm] The Patriot
[2:00A] Super 8
[4:30A] Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', followed by the movie 'Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters'.
A year after Deadline first broke the news of the project and Gal Gadot's involvement, Showtime today announced that deals are done for the Wonder Woman star to headline and executive produce a limited series about film actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, from The Affair co-creator/executive producer Sarah Treem, The Handmaid's Tale producer Warren Littlefield and Endeavor Content.
"The life of Hedy Lamarr was a truly fascinating one. She stood at the forefront of many issues that challenge women and our society today," said Showtime's President of Entertainment Jana Winograde. "In Gal Gadot, we have found the transcendent actress to portray the deeply complex Lamarr. And with the award-winning talents of Sarah Treem and Warren Littlefield, this is going to be a special series."
Treem is writing the limited series, which will chronicle the life and career of Lamarr, to be played by Gadot.
Israel-born Gadot had been looking to do a project about Lamarr, who has been referred to as a real-life Jewish "Wonder Woman" whose inventions led to WiFi and GPS.
Gadot will executive produce the limited series with her husband and producing partner Jaron Varsano, along with Treem and Littlefield. Endeavor Content is the studio.
Some of the original animators who worked on 1994's Disney classic The Lion King are taking issue with the new CGI version.
One has said that 'it hurts' to see their work remade, and have asked why Disney is continuing to revise its material.
Another added that there is 'huge resentment' to the Disney's remakes among original staff.
Another animator, David Stephan, who worked on the hyenas in the original Lion King, and also the Circle of Life opening scene added: "If you polled the crew of the original Lion King, most of them would say, 'Why? Did you really have to do that?' It kind of hurts.
"It's sort of sad that the stockholder is now in the room deciding what movies get made. Disney's now taken the cover off, and it's now in your face: 'Yeah, we just want to make money.' That's disappointing as an artist, from a studio that was founded on originality and art."
Jim Carrey has responded to the immense backlash against the design of Sonic The Hedgehog for the upcoming cinematic reboot of the beloved video-game character.
Carrey, who will star in the film as the villainous Robotnik, with Ben Schwartz voicing Sonic, questioned the idea of audiences forcing a film to be changed before it has even been released, during his recent appearance at the Television Critics Association panel for his show Kidding.
"Sometimes, you find the collective consciousness finds it wants something and then when it gets it: 'I just wanted it, I didn't care about it. I just jumped on the bandwagon.' Ownership of anything is going out the window for all of us," remarked Carrey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The publication also reported that Carrey "[acknowledged] fans 'had the sense of ownership' of the character because it is from their childhood."
This entire debacle began back in May when the debut trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog was released, which gave the world their first glimpse at how the character had been reimagined for the big-screen.
President Don-Old Trump (R-Cheap Veneers) made few new promises during his campaign speech Thursday night in Cincinnati. But two promises resonated with people, judging by interest on the internet: curing pediatric cancer and curing AIDS.
During the rally at U.S Bank Arena, he said: "The things we're doing in our country today, there's never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly."
Let's take the promises, which both originated in his 2019 State of the Union message, one at a time.
First, the cure rate for pediatric cancers is already at 80 percent. Kaiser Health News reports that's because "of the tremendous progress that's been made with childhood leukemia." But for other pediatric cancers, "the cure rates haven't changed in 20 years," Kaiser says.
Trump said in the State of the Union that he would end HIV transmission by 2030, a task that Kaiser called "doable but daunting."
A staggering 217 billion tons (197 billion metric tons) of meltwater flowed off of Greenland's ice sheet into the Atlantic Ocean this July. The worst day of melting was July 31, when 11 billion tons (10 billion metric tons) of melted ice poured into the ocean.
This massive thaw represents some of the worst melting since 2012, according to The Washington Post. That year, 97% of the Greenland ice sheet experienced melting. This year, so far, 56% of the ice sheet has melted, but temperatures - 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above average - have been higher than during the 2012 heat wave. All told, this July's melt alone was enough to raise global average sea levels by 0.02 inches (0.5 millimeters), according to the Post.
"This might seem inconsequential, but every increment of sea-level rise provides a higher launchpad for storms to more easily flood coastal infrastructure, such as New York's subway system, parts of which flooded during Hurricane Sandy in 2012," Andrew Freedman and Jason Samenow reported in the Post. "Think of a basketball game being played on a court whose floor is gradually rising, making it easier for even shorter players to dunk the ball." [8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World]
That melting occurred after a heat wave that had swept across Europe in July, setting temperature records in France, settled over Greenland. And June was the hottest June ever recorded the world over. This massive global warming coincides with a drastic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, to amounts not seen in the last 800,000 years. At the same time, part of Greenland is on fire.
In the long term, climate change is expected to cause even more-rapid melting - melting that is even more extreme than predicted by even the worst-case models just a few years ago. That will mean worsening storms, swamped coastlines and millions of climate refugees. At the same time, the heat that's melting all that ice is expected to make vast regions of the world uninhabitable for parts of the year, as temperatures climb beyond what the human body can handle.
The heat wave that smashed temperature records in Western Europe last month was made more likely and intensified by man-made climate change, according to a study published Friday.
The rapid study by a respected team of European scientists should be a warning of things to come, the report's lead author said.
"What will be the impacts on agriculture? What will the impacts on water?" said Robert Vautard of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace in France. "This will put really tension in society that we may not be so well equipped to cope with."
The report concluded that the heatwave in late July "was so extreme over continental Western Europe that the observed magnitudes would have been extremely unlikely without climate change."
In countries where millions of people sweltered through the heat wave, temperatures would have been 1.5 to 3 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) lower in a world without human-induced climate change, the study said.
Under extreme conditions, gold rearranges its atoms and forms a previously unknown structure. And when the pressures were pushed to the equivalent of those at the center of the Earth, the gold got even weirder.
The finding comes from a new study in which researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Carnegie Institution for Science practiced their 21st-century alchemy at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Using a high-energy laser, they heated gold to extreme temperatures and compressed it to pressures as high as those found at the center of the Earth.
More specifically, they put a little piece of plastic in front of a chunk of gold and then shot a high-energy laser through the plastic, which "basically causes an explosion that sends plastic one way and shock waves in the opposite direction," said lead author Richard Briggs, a postdoctoral scientist at LLNL.
Those shock waves hit the gold and caused it to compress and heat up extremely quickly, within nanoseconds. They then hit the gold with X-rays and detected where the x-rays bounced off in order to figure out its structure. This is "the first time that we've ever been able to reach such high-pressure and high-temperature conditions and look at them at the same time using X-rays," Briggs told Live Science. What they saw was "certainly a surprise."
The finding that gold can form this new structure may change the way scientists use the element as a standard in high-pressure experiments, Briggs said.
In a Connecticut graveyard dating to the late 18th century, one grave stood out. Its occupant, a man who died about 200 years ago, had been dug up and reburied with his head and limbs piled on top of his ribcage, hinting that he was suspected of being a vampire.
Now, archaeologists have revealed the identity of the man, formerly known only as "JB-55" - his initials and age when he died, which were spelled out on his coffin in embedded brass tacks, The Washington Post reported.
Forensic scientists compared genetic evidence from the skeleton with online genealogical databases to ID the "vampire" as a man named John Barber. He was probably a poor farmer who lived a hard life; he appears to have died from tuberculosis, a representative of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, announced at a museum event on July 26.
The condition of Barber's skeleton suggested that he suffered from a poorly healed broken collarbone and an arthritic knee, according to The Post. The tuberculosis that killed him was so acute that it left lesions on his ribs, and his excruciating illness and death were likely what led his family and friends to suspect that he was a vampire, Jennifer Higginbotham, a DNA researcher with the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, explained at the event.
Commonly known as consumption during the 18th and 19th centuries, tuberculosis caused ulcers in the lungs and left its victims pale, emaciated and weak. Infected people often had bloodstains at the corners of their mouths from coughing up blood, and their gums would recede, making their teeth appear longer, Higgenbotham explained.
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