Matthew Wilkens on Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (LA Review of Books)
Readers are finite creatures, capable of making their way through only a tiny fraction of the millions of books published over the centuries. The problem, at this sort of scale, has less to do with canonical selection bias than it does with our inevitable ignorance of nearly everything that has ever been written.
The best social science book title ever (io9)
Feeling a little bitter about having to read and/or write social science books that seem to hide their basic points in unnecessarily fancy rhetoric? Then you need some advice from Michael Billig, who has figured out how to succeed as an academic by writing really badly.
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee (as Grub Street Productions) in association with Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Network Television.
The closing credits for each episode features the song "Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs", sung by Grammar. Composer Bruce Miller, who had also composed for Wings, was asked to avoid explicitly mentioning any subjects related to the show such as radio or psychiatry. After Miller finished the music, lyricist Darryl Phinnesse suggested the title as they were things that were, like Frasier Crane's patients, "mixed up". The lyrics indirectly refer to Crane's radio show; "I hear the blues a-callin", for example, refers to troubled listeners who call the show. A short, silent skit appears with the credits and song, which the actors performed without written dialogue based on the scriptwriter's suggestion. Season finales were the exception, usually showing black-and-white photos of guest callers.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Frasier
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Frasier
Alan J answered:
Frasier
Sara, upstate hillbilly hell, NY wrote:
Kelsey Grammar
Yep, he sang the closing song for Frasier, think he wrote it too.
mj wrote:
As sung by the show's star
Kelsey Grammar, that was Frasier.
Charlie replied:
Frasier
Sandra in Bangor responded:
Fraiser
Sally said:
The closing credits for each episode of "Frasier," a TV series, features the song. "Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs."
Miss that show - and other interesting TV shows. Now we have nothing but a vast wasteland out there on Network TV!
PS: Went to a early show ($5) to see "The Butler," and it was sold out! We are going to a larger theater today and trying again.
I really want to see it, and more so now that Michael Reagan has spoken out against the film, saying that, "It portrays his father as a racist!" (Well, we KNOW that he was a homophobe...)
Get this, Michael was adopted by Ronnie and the first wife to, 'save' the marriage. It didn't and Michael was shipped off to military school. Fast forward to Ronnie visiting that school to give a speech. Afterward, Michael approached him, and RONALD REAGAN didn't even recognize him!! He had little contact with Ronnie and new wife (Nancy) over the years, and yet of the three remaining living children, he is the only "Conservative crazy" and Nancy detests him!! I really like Ronnie the junior, and listen to him on the radio weekly. The sister, Patti writes novels, and neither has any contact with Michael - who, IMHO, is using his father's name... He really is dreadful!
Gee, I hope we get in today...
Adam answered:
Frasier, and one of the very reasons it took me so long to come to the show. Tossed salad and scrambled eggs? Yecch.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Fraiser."
Dale Diamond Springs, Norcali, responded:
Frasier
I loathe Kelsey Grammer! Two of his many wives! Enough Said!!!
BttbBob replied:
Setting Grammer's politics/character aside, I liked the show then - and I like it now. Reruns are still shown daily and I frequently watch them. I also maintain that "Niles" stole a great many scenes from Ol' "Frasier" and "Roz" was hotter than "Daphne" (not that I didn't appreciate Ms Moon's drollness). This photo should be a collector's item due to what "Niles" is holding. A piece of pizza? "Perish the thought!" I think "Frasier" is probably my fa-vo-rite, ever, sitcom... Lastly, the older I get, the more I see myself in "Martin"... 'cept I am not a 'dog-guy'. I'm a 'big ol' tom-cat' kinda guy...
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(75) "Trapper John" one of the "Pros from Dover"...
(89) From the superb film, "Flight of the Phoenix" (1965)
My legal advisor is on his annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas, so we hit the road for an in-person consultation.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave is Bill Murray.
On a RERUNCraig (from 7/16/13) is Jon Hamm.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Hollywood Game Night', then a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Julie Scardina and Rod Stewart.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 8/1/13) are Jennifer Aniston, Lenny Kravitz, and Goodie Mob with Cee-Lo Green.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/23/13) are Michelle Rodriguez, Hanni El Khatib, and the Men.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Motive', followed by another FRESH'Motive', then a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/30/13) are Larry David, Naya Rivera, and Backstreet Boys.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'Glee', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Panic 9-1-1'.
AMC offers the movie 'Grease', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', 'Owner's Manual', followed by a FRESH'Owner's Manual'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 13
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 14
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 23 - The Host
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 24 - The Mind's Eye
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 25 - In Theory
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 8 - La Frite
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Walnut Tree
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Sante La Brea
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 13
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 14
[6:00PM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 4
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 11 - Ocean Deep
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME JOURNEYS
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 1 - From Pole To Pole
[10:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Giant Malaysian Honey Bees
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 11 - Ocean Deep
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 1 - From Pole To Pole
[1:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Giant Malaysian Honey Bees
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME JOURNEYS
[3:00AM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 4
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 11 - Ocean Deep
[5:00AM] FLORIDA ADVENTURE WITH DOMINIC BONUCCELLI (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'The Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'The Millionaire Matchmaker', still another 'The Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Eat, Drink, Love'.
Comedy Central has 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', 'it's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Jon Stewart John Oliver is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by a FRESH'Wilfred', and another 'Wilfred'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then another FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning', then another FRESH'Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
[6:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:45AM] Imagine Me & You
[8:45AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[10:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zoe Saldana Wears a Tan Blouse and Glasses
[11:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats
[11:45AM] Imagine Me & You
[1:45PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[3:45PM] Cloverfield
[5:30PM] The Matador
[7:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Richter Wears a Suit Jacket and a Baby Blue Button Down Shirt
[8:00PM] V for Vendetta
[10:45PM] The Transporter
[12:45AM] V for Vendetta
[3:30AM] The Piano (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] This Is Not a Robbery
[7:15AM] The Spanish Prisoner
[9:30AM] The Cat's Meow
[11:30AM] Beautiful Girls
[1:30PM] The Spanish Prisoner
[3:45PM] Dog Day Afternoon
[6:00PM] Dead Man Walking
[8:00PM] There Will Be Blood
[10:30PM] Snatch
[12:15AM] There Will Be Blood
[2:45AM] Snatch
[4:30AM] The Possession of David O'Reilly (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Land Of The Lost', followed by the movie 'Age Of Dinosaurs'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 6/11/13) are Jonah Hill, Coco and Ice-T, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and president of the jury at the 70th Venice Film Festival, poses during a photocall at the festival in Venice August 28, 2013.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
Hollywood celebrity Pamela Anderson is running in the New York City Marathon to support fellow actor Sean Penn's humanitarian group in Haiti.
Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization said Wednesday that the actress will be part of the group's fundraising team that will take five Haitian distance runners to compete in the Nov. 3 race.
The money raised will go toward operating funds for the humanitarian group, which has helped shelter some of the people displaced by Haiti's earthquake in 2010.
(L-R) Director Alfonso Cuaron, actors Sandra Bullock and George Clooney attend the 'Gravity' photocall during the 70th Venice International Film Festival at the Palazzo del Casino on August 28, 2013 in Venice, Italy.
Photo by Pascal Le Segretain
The reaction across the globe to Russia's anti-gay laws has been vocal and swift, but Anton Krasovsky's experience offers insight into an issue that will most likely play out across the world's media during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Krasovsky, fired from Russia's KontrTV when he disclosed that he is gay, thinks the Kremlin has been surprised by the reaction in the West. "This anti-gay law wasn't supposed to provoke such a hue and cry. No one expected such a worldwide response. People in the Kremlin feel uncomfortable about being involved in this matter, but they can't back down," he tells Variety.
Vladimir Putin was elected last year for his third term as president - an election disputed by many opposition figures. Since then, Russia has become a more repressive and less tolerant society, Krasovsky says, driven by siloviki, a name given to former members of the security services and the military. They are Putin supporters who are now in positions of power in politics and business. "It began right after Putin's return to the presidency. Maybe he didn't instigate it, but siloviki got the feeling that they had won the fight, and have started to take their revenge."
Though there have been calls for boycotts of Russian products and the Winter Olympics, the newsman says, "I am against any kind of boycott. On the contrary: The Sochi Olympics should be converted into a festival of tolerance. The colors of the national uniforms should be changed to rainbow, rainbow flags should be taken together with national ones, and people should cross the stadium with their partners."
"Twerking", the raunchy dance that set tongues wagging when enthusiastically performed by Miley Cyrus at the MTV awards, is one of the new terms to make the latest Oxford dictionary update.
The former Disney child star, now 20, left audience members gobsmacked when she bent over and gyrated provocatively with singer Robin Thicke on his song "Blurred Lines".
The moves, borrowed from US hip-hop culture, have been colloquially known as twerking for around 20 years, but the term has now received official recognition after being included in the latest revision of Oxford Dictionaries Online, it revealed Wednesday.
Other new words recognised by the English language gatekeeper include "selfie", for a self-photograph taken on a mobile phone, online currency "Bitcoin" and "hackerspace".
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton arrive at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was 50 years ago today when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the memorial.
Photo by Carolyn Kaster
The Mexican restaurant that factored into last Sunday's "Breaking Bad," reports a surge in orders for tableside guacamole since the appetizer was prominently featured on the AMC drama.
Garduno's' dip was a recurring punchline during an excruciatingly tense exchange that found meth-dealer Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and his wife (Anna Gunn) involved in a tense standoff with his brother-in-law, a DEA agent named Hank Schrader (Dean Norris). As tempers flared, a Garduno's waiter keeps butting in at inopportune times to talk up the restaurant's guacamole.
His sales pitch may not have worked on the Whites, but it has on customers.
Thirty percent of guests usually order guacamole, but Corporate General Manager Warren Gaustad told TheWrap that the number has surged to 35 percent - with many visitors specifically referencing "Breaking Bad" as the reason for their selection.
Actor Hugh Jackman (L) walks onto the stage as a Kuroko (C) (stagehand in traditional Japanese theatres) gestures to him during a news conference of the movie "The Wolverine" in Tokyo August 29, 2013. The movie will be screened in Japan on September 13, 2013.
Photo by Yuya Shino
A gigantic new Disney studio planned for oak-studded ranchland north of Los Angeles has won the approval of Los Angeles County - a milestone in the effort to build the half-million square feet of new production space in a state hard hit by runaway production.
County supervisors signed off on Tuesday on the Golden Oak Ranch project in the Santa Clarita Valley, although it still needs state and federal approval, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Disney/ABC Studios has spent the past four years attempting to build a high-tech production center in the area that Walt Disney selected decades ago to be the backdrop for his movies and television shows.
Rural and a short drive from major studios, the site has been depicted as a jungle, the Old West and other locations in productions such as "Old Yeller," ''Beverly Hills 90210" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."
Golden Ranch would be one of the largest studio developments in more than a decade, with six pairs of soundstages along with shops, prop and costume storage areas, offices, writers' bungalows and a commissary.
Caroline Kennedy speaks during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington August 28, 2013. Thousands of marchers gathered on Washington's national mall on Wednesday to commemorate civil rights leader King's famous "I have a dream" speech 50 years ago as activists said his goal of racial harmony remains elusive.
Photo by Jason Reed
LONDON - Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug used worldwide, but addictions to popular painkillers like Vicodin, Oxycontin and codeine kill the most people, according to the first-ever global survey of illicit drug abuse.
In addition to cannabis and opioid painkillers, scientists analyzed abuse of cocaine and amphetamines in 2010, largely based on previous studies. Ecstasy and hallucinogens weren't included, because there weren't enough data. The researchers found that for all the drugs studied, men in their 20s had the highest rates of abuse. The worst-hit countries were Australia, Britain, Russia and the U.S. The study was published online Thursday in the journal, Lancet.
But there were few concrete numbers to rely on and researchers used modeling techniques to come up with their estimates.
"Even if it is not very solid data, we can say definitely that there are drug problems in most parts of the world," said Theo Vos, of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, the study's senior author. Vos said people tended to abuse drugs produced close to home: cocaine in North America, amphetamines and opioids in Asia and Australia. The lowest rates of drug abuse were in Asia and Africa. Of the estimated 78,000 deaths in 2010 because of illegal drug use, more than half were because of painkiller addictions.
Vos said countries with harsh laws against drugs had worse death rates for addicts when compared to countries who relied on other policies to wean people off drugs, such as needle exchange programs and methadone clinics.
A widow dressed as the Hindu god Krishna dances during celebrations to mark Janmashtami festival at the Meera Sahavagini ashram in Vrindavan, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, August 28, 2013. Most of the widows who live in this ashram have been abandoned by their families.The festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, is celebrated across India Wednesday.
Photo by Ahmad Masood
In 1873, an unknown species of deep-sea worm was dredged up from the bottom of the ocean. Further analysis showed that the animal, collected from almost 3.5 miles (5.5 kilometers) beneath the surface, turned out to be a new type of acorn worm. It was dubbed Glandiceps abyssicola.
For nearly 140 years, that was the last that humans would see of this type of acorn worm. Acorn worms are a group of animals that live on the seafloor eating pieces of sediment and detritus that float down from above. And the single specimen that was collected in 1873 by the HMS Challenger found its way to Germany, where it was destroyed by bombs in World War II.
Then, in 2009, a small chunk of yellow flesh turned up in a sample of sediment collected near the same spot as the original, in the equatorial Atlantic near South America. An anatomical and genetic study of the material, published last month in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, found that it was part of a Glandiceps abyssicola worm's body.
The main reason that the animal hadn't been spotted since 1873 is that it is very fragile, and tends to fall apart when dredged, said Karen Osborn, a study co-author and worm specialist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The dredging sled runs along the seafloor and knocks items into a net with a chain, which isn't exactly a gentle collecting technique, Osborn told LiveScience. Ideally, the animals are collected with submersibles, where they can be delicately plucked from the ocean bottom, she added.
Bedouin women wear traditional costumes as they sit in their tent during the Sanaa Summer Festival in Sanaa August 28, 2013. The two-week festival aims to stimulate domestic tourism and reassure local and international tourists about Yemen's stability.
Photo by Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Scientists said Tuesday they have achieved the first human-to-human mind meld, with one researcher sending a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motion of a colleague sitting across the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.
The feat is less a conceptual advance than another step in the years-long progress that researchers have made toward brain-computer interfaces, in which electrical signals generated from one brain are translated by a computer into commands that can move a mechanical arm or a computer cursor - or, in more and more studies, can affect another brain.
Much of the research has been aimed at helping paralyzed patients regain some power of movement, but bioethicists have raised concerns about more controversial uses.
In February, for instance, scientists led by Duke University Medical Center's Miguel Nicolelis used electronic sensors to capture the thoughts of a rat in a lab in Brazil and sent via Internet to the brain of a rat in the United States. The second rat received the thoughts of the first, mimicking its behavior. And electrical activity in the brain of a monkey at Duke, in North Carolina, was recently sent via the Internet, controlling a robot arm in Japan.
That raised dystopian visions of battalions of animal soldiers - or even human ones - whose brains are remotely controlled by others. Some of Duke's brain-computer research, though not this study, received funding from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA.
For the new study, funded by the U.S. Army Research Office and other non-military federal agencies, UW professor of computer science and engineering Rajesh Rao, who has studied brain-computer interfaces for more than a decade, sat in his lab on August 12 wearing a cap with electrodes hooked up to an electroencephalography machine, which reads electrical activity in the brain.
A set of three Qianlong princely soapstone seals with fitted zitan box are displayed during a preview by auction house Sotheby's in Hong Kong August 28, 2013. According to Sotheby's, the seals are believed to be the earliest among all the seal sets of the Qianlong emperor, made and used while he was still a prince before his ascension to the throne in 1736. It is expected to fetch in excess of US$10 million at the Autumn sales on October 8, 2013.
Photo by Bobby Yip
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