Paul Krugman: Macro Debates and the Relevance of Intellectual History (NY Times)
One of the interesting things about the ongoing economic crisis is the way it has demonstrated the importance of historical knowledge. This is only the second global financial crisis serious enough to drive interest rates down to the zero lower bound in most major economies; making sense of it has depended crucially on knowing something about the first. But it's not just economic history that turns out to be extremely relevant; intellectual history - the history of economic thought - turns out to be relevant too.
Adam Tod Brown: 4 Unexpected Things I Learned Smoking Crack Cocaine (Cracked)
I'm sure the main detail on everyone's mind is how, exactly, I ended up smoking crack in the first place. I mean, this is the kind of drug that requires a trip to the Rob Ford side of town, right? Unless you live there, avoiding open air crack dens can be quite simple. The story starts, like so many others, at a shitty job.
John Chapman (September 26, 1774 - March 11, 1845), often called Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for The New Church (Swedenborgian) and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio and the Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center in between Lucas, Ohio and Mifflin, Ohio.
The popular image is of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly, everywhere he went. In fact, he planted nurseries rather than orchards, built fences around them to protect them from livestock, left the nurseries in the care of a neighbor who sold trees on shares, and returned every year or two to tend the nursery. Although apples grown from seed are rarely sweet or tasty, apple orchards with sour apples were popular among the settlers because apples were mainly used for producing hard cider and apple jack. In some periods of the settlement of the Midwest, settlers were required by law to plant orchards of apples and pears in order to uphold the right to the claimed land. So Johnny Appleseed planted orchards that made for popular real estate on the frontier. His first nursery was planted on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania.
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
His first nursery was planted on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania
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Near Warren, Pennsylvania.
Deborah responded:
John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, didn't just plant trees - he planted orchards and tree nurseries. His first planting was just south of Warren, PA.
The Tour de France started today in England. So when I'm not riding my bike I'll be watching really talented cyclists race their bikes. I love summer!
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Pennsylvania ~ planted on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania, by John Chapman 1774 - 1845, often called Johnny Appleseed. He planted apple trees all over Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and became a legend in his own time. Johnny Appleseed not only planted thousands of trees, but he understood the need create nurseries to speed up the process of raising apple trees and to protect the trees from livestock who would eat the emerging spouts of the apple trees seedlings. He also taught the locals how to care for the apple trees.
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Reckless', followed by FRESH'Unforgettable'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then another RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
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U.S actor Jim Parsons, center, applauds from the players box during the women's singles final match between Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, July 5, 2014.
Photo by Sang Tan
It's been 40 years since CBS first took a minute out of its broadcasting schedule to give viewers a minute-long history lesson. Bicentennial Minutes were short, nightly primetime TV spots created to commemorate the bicentennial of the American Revolution. But the 60-second shorts quickly became a cultural phenomenon.
The segments, sponsored by Shell Oil, aired nightly beginning on July 4, 1974, and were originally slated to end two years later. But another sponsor stepped in, and the series ran through Dec. 31, 1976 - more than 900 segments in all!
Narrated by CBS stars of the era like Alan Alda (M*A*S*H), Lucille Ball (Here's Lucy), Jean Stapleton (All in the Family), and Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), as well as hundreds of other celebs and political figures, the landmark series provided nightly factoids on events that happened exactly 200 years ago on that date.
Bicentennial Minutes created a lot of buzz, and the segments were referenced on other TV shows over the years. On All in the Family, one of Archie Bunker's rants about what made America great was described as a Bicentennial Minute by his son-in-law, Mike/Meathead (Rob Reiner), and decades later, in the opening scene of a King of Queens episode, Jerry Stiller's character declared, "I swore off glasses in 1976! I know the year, because the last time I threw a pair at the television was during a particularly offensive Bicentennial Minute!" (You gotta love Arthur Spooner.)
Of course, the best tribute to these milestone minutes came in the form of parodies on sketch comedy shows. The "About 200 Years Ago" skits on Hee Haw offered distorted historical "facts" with an iffy timeline, courtesy of Grandpa Jones. And in 1975, comedy veterans Tim Conway and Harvey Korman gave us a twisted history lesson with a live-action re-enactment of a Bicentennial 'Moment' on The Carol Burnett Show.
In this photo provided by Disney, singer Katy Perry, center, poses Friday, July 4, 2014, with Minnie Mouse, left, and Mickey Mouse at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Perry, who sang the hit song "Firework," visited Walt Disney World Resort on the Fourth of July during a break in her global "Prismatic" concert tour.
Photo by Chloe Rice
Paul McCartney returned to a concert stage Saturday after being sidelined for two months because of a virus, spinning out songs from the Beatles, Wings and a solo career that has spanned more than 50 years of rock 'n' roll.
McCartney, who turned 72 two weeks ago, looked none the worse for wear. He made no immediate reference to his absence. One oblique reference could have been his performance of the song, "On My Way to Work," which he said he hadn't done live before.
He was briefly hospitalized in Tokyo in May because of the viral infection. The illness forced him to cancel a Japanese tour and a concert in South Korea and reschedule half a dozen June dates in the United States before resuming his "Out There" tour in Albany.
Before his illness, McCartney last performed May 1 in Costa Rica.
French star Catherine Deneuve will serve as president of the 25th Dinard British Film Festival's competition jury.
Best known for her roles in "Belle du Jour" and "Repulsion," Deneuve has more than 100 film credits to her name. She broke through with "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" in 1964 and went on to work with some of cinema's greatest directors including Francois Truffaut and Luis Buñuel.
Deneuve follows in the footsteps of Eric Cantona - who was joined by jury members including Actress Alice Eve, Actor Toby Jones, Academy Award winning producer David Parfitt, Actor Michael Smiley, Screenwriter Natalie Carter, Director Fred Cavayé, Actor Hippolyte Girardot, and Director/screenwriter Amanda Sthers.
The Dinard British Film Festival runs from 8-12 October in Dinard, in the French region of Brittany.
Nile Rodgers is seen performing on stage at 2014 Essence Music Festival Concert-Day 2 at the Superdome on Friday, July 4, 2014 in New Orleans, La.
Photo by Donald Traill
Joan Rivers walked out in the middle of a CNN interview that aired on Saturday.
The comedienne first took offense when CNN Newsroom host Fredricka Whitfield described her hit E! show "Fashion Police" as mean. The situation elevated when Whitfield indirectly called Rivers a hypocrite for fighting to end animal cruelty while regularly donning fur.
"This whole interview is turning into a defensive interview," she said. "Are you wearing leather shoes? Then shut up."
"You are not the one to interview a person who does humor, sorry," Rivers said.
Whitfield later wondered whether this was nothing more than a stunt. "Off camera, [Rivers] kept her microphone on as she continued to talk and dropped some rather unflattering four-letter words," she said.
The director of a movie about singer Gregg Allman and two other executives on the project were indicted Thursday on felony charges stemming from a fatal crash in which a freight train plowed into the film's crew in southeast Georgia.
A grand jury in rural Wayne County returned charges of involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing against "Midnight Rider" director Randall Miller as well as his wife and business partner, Jody Savin, and the film's executive producer, Jay Sedrish.
If they are convicted, the filmmakers each could face up to 11 years in prison for the Feb. 20 death of Sarah Jones. The 27-year-old camera assistant from Atlanta was killed and six other crew members were struck by a train while shooting footage on a railroad bridge spanning the Altamaha River southwest of Savannah. Authorities say the train was traveling at 55 mph when it crashed into the crew and a bed that had been placed on the tracks as a movie prop.
The indictment charges Miller, Savin and Sedrish with unintentionally causing Jones' death by trespassing onto the railroad bridge. The filmmakers went onto the train trestle even after CSX denied them access, the indictment says.
Anti-bullfighting protesters wearing skull make-up and traditional red scarves hold up signs that read, "You Run. Bulls Die", during a demonstration in front of Pamplona town hall July 5, 2014. The annual San Fermin festival, famous for the running of the bulls event, starts on Sunday with the Chupinazo and finishes with the Pobre De Mi (Poor Me) ceremony at midnight on July 14.
Photo by Vincent West
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
CITES
Hundreds of experts will gather in Geneva next week to discuss a "disturbing upswing" in the illegal wildlife trade, driven increasingly by ostentatious displays of wealth by the super-rich.
"We're seeing a shift from health to wealth... a significant shift away from (demand for) traditional uses associated with health to uses associated with wealth," said John Scanlon, head of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
The rich increasingly like to show off, he said, by buying things like tiger wine -- made by dumping tiger carcasses into vats of rice wine -- while elephant ivory is increasingly seen as an investment by speculators.
CITES is gathering some 400 experts and country representatives for a July 7-11 meeting.
CITES, which regulates the trade of some 35,000 animal and plant species, will discuss what actions its 180 member states are taking to fight the problem. It has the power to suspend a country's trade in one or more species if they breach treaty rules.
A Finnish couple has narrowly won the 19th World Wife Carrying Championships - a quirky competition in which men race to be the fastest while carrying a female teammate.
Ville Parviainen and Janette Oksman cleared the grueling 253.5 metre (278-yard) obstacle course in 63.75 seconds on Saturday, less than a second ahead of Britain's Rich Blake Smith and Anna Marguerite Smith.
Thirty-six couples from a dozen countries including Australia, Japan, and the United States took part in the race, which was held in the central Finnish municipality of Sonkajarvi, north of the capital, Helsinki.
The rules stipulate that the woman must be over 17 years of age and weigh at least 49 kilograms (108 lb). Despite the event's name couples don't have to be married, and organizers say male contestants could "borrow a neighbour's wife" if they didn't have a female companion.
Every once in a while, Kumiko Kano meets a group of people with whom she has decided to spend eternity, one of a growing number in Japan who are shunning the expense and commitment of a traditional family grave.
Instead of shelling out millions of yen (tens of thousands of dollars) on an elaborate tomb, which, according to religious custom must be lovingly tended by descendents, Kano and her late husband decided to be interred in a collective grave alongside thousands of others.
"My husband saw his eldest brother rack up huge costs for the family gravestone, and we decided that we didn't need one that would be a burden to our children," said Kano, 74.
Instead, the couple joined a group for prospective gravemates that has established a collective final resting place, and organises meetings -- from a book club to countryside excursions -- so that ties may be formed before members are laid to rest.
In native Shintoism, as well as in imported Buddhism, successive generations have a duty of care for dead ancestors, who exist on a continuous plane with those still living.
When it comes to pit spitting in southwestern Michigan, it's tough to beat the Krause family.
Brian Krause has won the 41st International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship on Saturday with a distance of 80 feet, 8 inches.
Brian's win made it 26 of 41 for the Krause family since Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm owner Herb Teichman launched the tournament in 1974 as a lark - but also to mark the region's tart cherry harvest.
Brian Krause holds the record spit of 93 feet, 6 1/2 inches set in 2003 at the farm in Eau Claire, just north of the Indiana border.
In a photo provided by San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a young gorilla, named Joanne, takes a ride on her mother Imani's back, a skill that she has recently mastered, in San Diego on Thursday, July 3, 2014. The now 3-month-old gorilla has been growing and gaining some independence, reaching milestones such as riding on her mother's back and crawling. Keepers report that around three months is when gorilla babies will begin to display these behaviors, so Joanne is right on track with her development. Joanne, named after the first chairwoman of the Foundation of San Diego Zoo Global, was born at the Safari Park on March 12 after a rare emergency C-section. This was the first baby for mother Imani and the 17th gorilla to be born at the Safari Park.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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