• Arthur Rimbaud, a French poet, was also a critic. If he disliked what he heard at a poetry reading, he would climb on a table behind the poet and urinate on the poet’s poems. Rimbaud is a favorite of punk poet Patti Smith — who faced her own critics. She was so disliked by the female factory employees with whom she worked early in her life that they once pushed her head into a urine-filled toilet bowl — an event she wrote and sang about in what many people consider the very first punk record: “P*ss Factory.” She discovered Rimbaud while looking in a bookstore near the factory. Unfortunately, the other female factory employees thought that Rimbaud must be a Communist because he wrote in a language other than English.
• Critic Edmund Wilson did not do a lot of things that more recent intellectuals do. In fact, as Mr. Wilson’s fame and requests for his time and creativity grew, he created a postcard on which he listed (and checked as a reply to a request he would not satisfy) the things that he would not do. These things included giving interviews, appearing on television, participating in symposia, writing articles or books on order, and writing forewords or introductions.
• Actors react differently to critics’ reviews. After appearing in a play together, Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence Olivier received good and bad reviews. Mr. Heston said, “Well, I guess you’ve just got to forget the bad reviews.” Sir Laurence replied, “No, you’ve got to forget the good ones.” (Children’s book author Avi sometimes tells this anecdote; he is of course aware that authors get good and bad reviews.)
• Lesbian humorist Ellen Orleans found publishing her first book a real eye-opener. For one thing, an editor said that she used the punctuation mark known as the ellipsis (…) way too often. Ms. Orleans didn’t believe her until the editor took one of her articles and used a green highlighter to mark every ellipsis — making the article look like it had lain in a pool of antifreeze.
Death
• Robert Louis Stevenson based the title characters of his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on William Brodie, a Scottish deacon and cabinetmaker in Edinburgh who led two lives. During the day, he was a respected citizen; at night, he was a thief and a blackguard. Eventually, he was caught and sentenced to be hung until dead. However, he made a plan for escaping the gallows. He placed a silver tube in his throat so that he could continue to breathe even while dangling from a rope. Also, he bribed the hangman to hang him with a short rope so that his neck would not break. Finally, he hired a French doctor to bring him to after the hanging. Unfortunately for him, his scheme didn’t work. The French doctor was unable to revive him, and Mr. Brodie’s dual career came to an end.
• While attending public school in a small town in Idaho, future young adult author Chris Crutcher was not a reader. One day, his teacher came into the classroom looking very sad, and she said that she had bad news. In a small town, when someone says they have bad news, it usually means that someone — probably someone you know — has died. The teacher then announced, “Robert Frost died yesterday.” Before thinking, Chris blurted out, “Good — he can’t write any more poems we have to read.” In response, his teacher smacked him on the head. (Corporal punishment was allowed in public schools back then.) That evening at the supper table, Chris’s father said, “I have some bad news. Robert Frost died yesterday.” This time, Chris said, “Oh, man. Bummer.”
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" (or just "Puff") is a song written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary from a poem by Leonard Lipton. It was made popular by Yarrow's group in a 1962 recording released in January 1963.
The lyrics tell a story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate, Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood and leaves Puff to be with himself. The story of the song takes place "by the sea" in the fictional land of "Honalee".
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Cal in Vermont was first, and correct, with:
Puff The Magic Dragon. Dragons live forever, but not so litte boys. I can't sing it any more because it chokes me up. Same with Ian and Sylvia's cover of Circle Game. Phil Och's Changes, too. What a world...
Mark. wrote:
Puff the Magic Dragon.
Billy in Cypress said:
Puff, the Magic Dragon
Alan J answered:
Puff the Magic Dragon.
Jon L replied:
Man, I believe that was Puff.
Stephen F responded:
Puff the Magic Dragon
Randall wrote:
Puff the Magic Dragon
Roy, Lifelong member of Antifa, in Tyler, TX said:
According to Peter, Paul, & Mary, it was Puff, the Magic Dragon who hung out with Jackie Paper in the land of Honalee.
Dave responded:
Puff the Magic Dragon. That piece of trivia I knew. Both Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton, co-writers of the song, have always denied they intended to put drug references in the song.
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Mac Mac replied:
Puff
mj wrote:
Subject of controversy
And rumored to be a metaphor for weed, Puff the Magic Dragon would roar
out his name when ships passed by his cave.
David of Moon Valley said:
why that'd be...
…….…Puff The Magic Dragon…gone after by Spiro Agnew (my one-time boss, i did their landscaping) for its alleged drug references…desperate they were to nip the use of bud in the bud…
……."In 1970, US vice-president Spiro Agnew described rock music as "blatant drug culture propaganda" and warned that it threatened "to sap our national strength unless we move hard and fast to bring it under control." He immediately went on a crusade to ban songs that referred to drugs. This included the children's ditty "Puff the Magic Dragon," which would surely be harmless to anyone for whom it was written. Despite lyrics like "Puff," "dragon," "autumn mist," "little Jackie paper," and... that's it, really... composer Peter Yarrow always protested the song was merely an innocent fantasy, with no hidden meaning."
Deborah, the Master Gardener answered:
Puff the Magic Dragon. The version I know best was done by Peter, Paul and Mary. There was a theory that the song was about marijuana, but I was too young to care.
Another freezing night. It was just last week I was wearing shorts; now it’s tights and jackets. Brrr.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Puff the Magic Dragon
zorch responded:
Puff the Magic Dragon.
Daniel in The City replied:
Puff the Magic Dragon
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Puff, the Magic Dragon
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Puff the Magic Dragon who lived across the sea. Beloved creature of marijuana smokers and AC-47s (Armed USAF version of the DC-3).
DJ Useo said:
Puff The Magic Dragon. My mom bought me a 45 rpm record of that song when I was about 4. From that point on I sang it a lot.
Jacqueline answered:
Should be Puff The Magic Dragon
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame responded:
Puff the Magic Dragon
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
Puff the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea. Are you sure Puff is fictitious?
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Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at age 84, became renowned for novels like the Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. His novels, short stories, essays and plays were filled with humor, social commentary, science fiction and autobiography.
IFC Films plans a summer 2021 release for the long-gestating feature documentary that has 32-year-old footage that the Oscar-nominated Weide captured of Vonnegut through their long friendship.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is produced by Whyaduck Productions and 9.14 Pictures.
Scott Atlas (R-Not Qualified), a coronavirus adviser to President Donald Trump (R-Grifter), slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday as "a political animal," hours after the country's top infectious disease expert provided his latest verdict on the state of the pandemic.
Atlas made the comments during a nightly appearance on Fox "News" State Television with host Laura Ingraham (R-Sock Puppet), who claimed Fauci has taken on an "upbeat" tone toward the virus since Election Day.
"This is very good news looking forward," Fauci said on Monday, adding that the results are "extraordinary" and "have a major impact on everything that we do with regard to COVID."
Still, Atlas pushed back on Fauci, adding to a string of baseless attacks from the White House that public health officials and pharmaceutical companies are working against Trump to harm his political standing. Trump has falsely accused Fauci of being a Democrat and called him a "disaster," as the two have often not seen eye-to-eye on the federal coronavirus response.
Atlas also repeated an unfounded claim from Trump that Pfizer deliberately withheld coronavirus vaccine data from the public until after Election Day. Trump lost the election last week to President-elect Joe Biden, Insider and Decision Desk HQ projected on November 6.
Move over, "Monkey Jesus." The latest in a series of bizarre art restoration attempts to hit Spain has been spotted in the northern city of Palencia.
A statue on the outside of a building on the city's historic main street has been left disfigured after a mysterious restorer tried to repair its broken head.
Local artist Antonio Capel noticed the work on Friday and uploaded photos to Facebook that quickly garnered plenty of attention online.
Capel, whose studio is across the road from the statue, told CNN he hasn't been able to find out who carried out the work, or who commissioned it.
He said crowds of people have been gathering to take a look at the statue after his photos did the rounds online and were picked up in Spanish media.
The New Yorker has fired the writer Jeffrey Toobin after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call last month.
“As a result of our investigation, Jeffrey Toobin is no longer affiliated with the company,” a New Yorker spokesperson told TheWrap on Wednesday.
As first reported by VICE last month, Toobin was on a call with staff from the New Yorker and WNYC radio for an election simulation. During the call, there was a brief “strategy session” and it appeared that Toobin was on another video call, according to individuals on the call who spoke with VICE. Toobin was then seen lowering his camera and touching his penis as he masturbated, VICE reported.
“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,” Toobin said at the time in a statement to VICE. “I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland's past climate.
The lake formed when northwest Greenland was ice-free, sometime between hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago. Given Greenland's rapid melt today, the lake could reveal something about the Arctic's future as the ice caps shrink.
"This could be an important repository of information, in a landscape that right now is totally concealed and inaccessible," Guy Paxman, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said in a statement. "We're working to try and understand how the Greenland ice sheet has behaved in the past. It's important if we want to understand how it will behave in future decades."
Paxman and his colleagues discovered the lake using data from instruments that use radar to penetrate beneath the ice surface to measure topography; much of the data came from NASA's Operation IceBridge.
The lake basin sits 1.1 miles (1.8 kilometers) below the surface of the ice and stretches over 2,700 square miles (7,100 square km), the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. At its deepest point, the lake would have extended about 800 feet (250 meters) down.
The discovery of a 2-million-year-old skull in a South African cave is changing what we think we know about one of humanity's primitive ancestors, scientists report in a new study.
But the newly unearthed fossil specimen from the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus is also giving researchers a unique snapshot on the transformations that climate change might unleash in a population living under environmental stress – spurring adaptations that could make life easier and survival likelier.
P. robustus, so named because of its robust appearance with a large, sturdy skull, jaw, and teeth, emerged roughly 2 million years ago in South Africa, and eventually became one of the first early hominin species discovered and studied by mid-20th century anthropologists.
It seems, though, that not all P. robustus individuals were equally robust, and we know this thanks to the newly unearthed specimen, identified as DNH 155.
DNH 155, discovered in 2018 by a student on a field expedition in the Drimolen caves system northwest of Johannesburg, appears to be somewhat different to its P. robustus kin, at least based on the fossil evidence uncovered before now.
New research published in the journal Andrology has found a connection between nut consumption and sperm quality in men, revealing that those who added a mix of nuts to a Western-style diet for 14 weeks improved their sperm count and function. The dietary change altered sperm DNA methylation through epigenetics, which change what our cells code for (phenotype) without affecting the underlying DNA (genotype).
Lifestyle and environmental factors have long been associated with changes in sperm count and quality. External factors such as these are able to alter our cells through DNA methylation, which adds methyl groups to a DNA molecule, influencing its output for better or worse. Drinking, drug use, and smoking are all associated with negative changes in sperm output, but the effects of diet aren’t so well established.
This new research conducted a randomized clinical trial to investigate if and how the consumption of nuts altered sperm DNA methylation, in a trial named FERTINUTS. They took 72 healthy, non-smoking young men for the study, feeding the nut group of 48 participants a mixture of tree nuts including almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts.
They then compared the rate of methylation in these participants against the control group of 24 participants who didn’t add nuts to their diet. Their results showed that neither group saw global changes in sperm DNA methylation, but the nut group demonstrated significant changes in 36 genomic regions from the start to the end of the trial, 97.2 percent of which displayed hypermethylation. There were no significant changes seen in the nut-free group.
A previous study in 2018 had found that the supplementation of a Western-style diet with walnuts, hazelnuts, and almonds improves sperm quality in healthy reproductive-aged men, and suggested these beneficial effects could be the result of a reduction in sperm DNA fragmentation or changes in DNA methylation. This new research shows that there are some sensitive regions of the sperm epigenome that respond to the consumption of tree nuts, altering sperm and its ability to fertilize.
Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered a unique Viking burial site, hidden deep underground, dating back over 1,000 years ago. Using only a radar, researchers identified a feast hall, cult house, farmhouse and the remnants of a ship.
According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Antiquity, the burial site is located in Gjellestad, in southeastern Norway. Gjellestad is home to the Jell Mound, which is one of the largest Iron Age funerary mounds in Scandinavia, according to the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research.
Researchers were able to use a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to map features below the Earth's surface, finding the site without having to dig underground. The research originally began in 2017 to look for at-risk burial sites ahead of a construction project.
Archaeologists classified the site as "high-status" after finding copper brooches and rings, a silver coin and, most notably, a gold pendant. Boats, which were symbols of safe passage into the afterlife, were also reserved for powerful Viking individuals.
GPR data revealed that the boat is about 62 feet long — considered very large and rare — and buried up to 4.6 feet underground. Though some have been demolished, the radar also revealed 13 burial mounds once existed in the area, some nearly 100 feet wide.
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