Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking (Guardian)
Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America's foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught him.
Henry Rollins: Why I'm Not Playing Music Anymore (LA Weekly)
This is what I want. I want total exhaustion from tasks that are outside of my skill set. I want my determination and anger to focus my energy. This is not an easy way to go, and it might not be good for one's constitution, but at least I don't feel old.
Felix Clay: 5 Obnoxious Things Restaurants Need to Stop Doing (Cracked)
Everyone likes eating out at restaurants, except I guess people who have been shot in restaurants or agoraphobics. But assuming you can go outside and have never been assaulted by the staff at Long John Silvers with anything other than what they call food there, you probably enjoy the odd trip to a restaurant.
"Ohio" is a protest song written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It was released as a single, backed with Stephen Stills's "Find the Cost of Freedom", peaking at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Although a live version of the song was included on the group's 1971 double album Four Way Street, the studio versions of both songs did not appear on an LP until the group's compilation So Far was released in 1974.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Ohio
Dave in Cincinnati said:
That would be "Ohio". I read that when Neil first played this song for
David Crosby, Crosby said that they needed to get Stills and Nash and
get into the studio ASAP. They did and it was released as a single within
a week. After the recording was done Crosby broke down and cried.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Ohio" is a protest song written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to
the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young.
Charlie replied:
"Ohio"
Originally only available on 45, which I bought.
mj responded:
That would be
Ohio. What an end to my freshman year. We used to drive past Allison Krause's home on the drive back from my college.
Adam answered:
Ohio.
Sally said:
The "Kent State Shooting" was the inspiration for the protest song, "Ohio" written by Neil Young for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young circa 1970.
Funny how you remember events. We drove out to Denver from NYC in the Spring of 1970. Drove right through Kansas, the state that would not end... Every mile I became more disenchanted, I mean Kansas was no NYC. I remember saying (more than once) I bet nothing ever happens in Kansas - and a month later it made the headlines. What did I know?
PS: I am taking note that a lot of readers are AWOL here of late - and I don't like it one bit, either! Come on home Trivial Pursuiters, all is forgiven - if you do!
STEPHEN F wrote:
"Ohio"-- My home state
Kevin K .in Wahsington, DC responded:
Ohio. Tin soldiers and Nixon comin', baby!
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Ohio."
Dale o' de Springs o' de Diamonds, Norcali, answered:
Ohio. We shut down UCB and helped shut down local CC's and high schools after the massacre. We were already protesting Nixon's Cambodian invasion and then Kent State happened that Monday. We went on strike for the rest of the week. The one thing that we in Amerika do best is make WAR!!!!!
Marian is still enjoying some footloose and internets-free days.
DJ Useo said:
I lo-o-o-ve Neil Young and his music. A realized genius. I discovered the song "Ohio" much later than it's release, but it's the answer to today's BARTCOP E trivia question.
I've read online that it's banned from classic rock radio because of it's lyrical content. I don't know if that's true as I 've practically forgotten fm-radio exists. Lol.
My old FB pal, Deborah in Folsom replied:
That would be “Ohio.”
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'NCIS', then another RERUN'NCIS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Piedmont Bird Callers, Jason Bateman, and John Fogerty.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Zach Galifianakis and Andrea Riseborough.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Grimm'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Eric Stonestreet, Jeremy Wade, and Thompson Square.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Aziz Ansari, Gillian Anderson, J. Cole, and PJ Morton.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Adam DeVine, James Gulliver Hancock, and Milo Greene.
ABC opens the night with the FRESH'The Bachelor's Funniest Moments', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Ethan Hawke, Desiree Hartsock, and 30 Seconds To Mars.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', 'American Hoggers', and another 'American Hoggers'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Scorpion King 2: Rise Of A Warrior', followed by the movie '300', then the movie '300', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Empty Child
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 10 - The Doctor Dances
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 3 - The Survivors
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Who Watches the Watchers
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Le Bistro, Anna Vincenzo's, Lido di Manhattan
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Luigi's D'Italia
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Cafe Tavolini
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Cafe Tavolini
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Le Bistro, Anna Vincenzo's, Lido di Manhattan
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine', 'Watch What Happens Live', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', and another 'Don't Be Tardy ...'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Inside Amy Schumer', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Inside Amy Schumer'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Phil Jackson.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Noah Feldman.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Taken'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', 'American Restoration', and another 'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] About a Boy
[8:15AM] Imagine Me & You
[10:15AM] Bunk
[10:45AM] Bunk
[11:15AM] Stick
[1:45PM] Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
[3:45PM] About a Boy
[6:00PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[8:00PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[10:15PM] The Last Legion
[12:30AM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[2:45AM] The Last Legion
[5:00AM] Action-Lights, Camera, Action
[5:30AM] Action-Dead Man Floating (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Carded and Discarded
[7:00AM] Broke Sky
[8:45AM] Control
[11:00AM] Sorry, Thanks
[12:45PM] Paris
[3:00PM] Man Shops Globe
[3:30PM] Control
[5:45PM] The Lives of Others
[8:00PM] Norma Rae
[10:00PM] The Color of Money
[12:00AM] The Exterminating Angels
[2:00AM] The Lives of Others
[4:15AM] Pizza
[5:45AM] The Business Trip (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'William Shatner's Weird Or What?', then another FRESH'William Shatner's Weird Or What?'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ed Helms, Alice Eve, and the cast of "Workaholics".
Actor Alec Baldwin (L) and with wife Hilaria Thomas pose on the red carpet as they arrive for the screening of the film "Blood Ties" during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 20, 2013.
Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier
Humor may not always translate well, but Jon Stewart is picking up millions of fans in China, where his gloves-off political satire is refreshing for many in a country where such criticism is a rarity - especially when directed at their own leaders.
A recent segment on North Korea scored over 4 million views on microblogger Sina Weibo, and even stodgy state broadcaster CCTV has used Stewart's "The Daily Show" in a report, though they wouldn't let a Chinese version of him near their cameras.
Recent popular sequences have included one in which Stewart lampooned the Chinese hackers who hacked into the New York Times computer system earlier this year, wondering if that was the best they could do.
But far from squelching Stewart, CCTV even used one of his sequences on Guantanamo Bay to criticize Obama in a regular broadcast - a move widely derided by netizens.
Though the exact timing of Stewart's entrance to China is unclear, many have been watching him for four or five years, mainly through the Internet and Weibo.
Cast members Marion Cotillard (R) and Zoe Saldana pose during a photocall for the film "Blood Ties" at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 20, 2013.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
Martin Scorsese and Mel Brooks are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. Although both men are film legends, their styles and subject matter are worlds apart-- one is associated with gritty depictions of criminality while the other is best known for his pioneering fart jokes.
The two men will share the same stage, however, on June 6, when Scorsese will present Brooks with the American Film Institute's 41st Life Achievement Award. The award is one of the highest honors for a career in film and has been handed out in the past to such notable directors and actors as Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro and Scorsese himself.
Brooks is being honored for a career that has spanned television, film and the Broadway stage. He is the creative force behind such comedy classics as "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein" and the film and stage versions of "The Producers."
The private black tie gala will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6 and will be broadcast on TNT on Saturday, June 15, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. It will be shown again as part of an all-night tribute to Brooks on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday, July 24, at 8 p.m. ET.
A leading Israeli university says it will present singer Barbra Streisand with an honorary Ph.D. when she visits Israel next month.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said Monday it was granting the singer the degree because of her concern for human rights and dedication to Israel and the Jewish people.
Streisand, 71, is expected to perform at a June conference in honor of the 90th birthday of Israeli President Shimon Peres. She will also appear in two public concerts. It will be the first time the Jewish singer performs in Israel.
The university's school of Jewish studies, established in 1984, is named after Streisand's father, Emanuel. Streisand also holds an honorary doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Brandeis University in the U.S.
Actor Sean Penn, founder and CEO of the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, listens to remarks as he testifies before a House Foreign Affairs Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee hearing on "Advocating for American Jacob Ostreicher's Freedom after Two Years in Bolivian Detention" on Capitol Hill in Washington May 20, 2013.
Photo by Kevin Lamarque
It's just a quick kiss, but it's a long step forward for Archie Comics' only openly gay character Kevin Keller.
The Riverdale teen finds his life turned upside down after locking lips with his boyfriend, Devon, in Pop Tate's diner, drawing the ire of at least one disapproving Riverdale mom.
The woman "gets very offended and kind of pitches a bit of a fit," said Dan Parent, who writes and draws the issue, "Kevin Keller" No. 10 that is released Aug. 7.
"Kevin is kind of used to that, but Veronica records the whole thing and of course uploads it to the Riverdale equivalent of YouTube and that starts a bit of a debate," said Parent.
For Archie Comics it's a bit of art imitating life. Parent said he wrote the story after efforts to remove a comic magazine showing Keller getting married drew at complaints. One Million Moms, a project of The American Family Association, asked Toys R Us Inc. not to display "Life With Archie" No. 16 near its checkout aisles. Toys R Us did not, and the issue went on to sell out its print run.
An 87-year-old woman who alleges Donald Trump cheated her in a skyscraper-condo sale told jurors Monday she had qualms about suing the real estate mogul and TV celebrity. But, she quickly added, "Somebody had to stand up to him."
Jacqueline Goldberg's comment came during her second and final day on the stand at a civil trial examining her claim that Trump perpetrated a bait-and-switch as she bought properties at the glitzy Trump International Hotel & Tower in downtown Chicago.
On the stand Monday, Goldberg said Trump wooed her into buying two condos for about $1 million apiece in the mid-2000s by dangling a promise to share profits in the 92-story building - only to snatch that offer away after she committed to buy.
When she learned in 2008 that the profit-sharing was no longer part of the overall deal she thought she had bought into, Goldberg said she was dismayed.
"I didn't want to be in business with someone who would cheat me," she said. "How could I know he wouldn't do it again?"
Actress Joanna Lumley poses for a photograph during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens to the public on Tuesday.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
CBS said on Monday that the network will delay airing the season finale of sitcom "Mike & Molly" in the aftermath of the Oklahoma tornados, due to similarities between the events and the episode's storyline.
Monday's "Mike & Molly" season finale episode will be replaced with an earlier repeat show, and CBS said the season finale will be "broadcast at an appropriate date."
"Mike & Molly," starring Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell, is a comedy about a couple who fall in love after meeting at an overeaters support group.
Director Takashi Miike (L) and cast member Takao Osawa attend a news conference for the film "Wara No Tate" (Shield of Straw) at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 20, 2013.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought the lease to Broadway's largest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.
Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday it has acquired rights to The Foxwoods Theatre, the 2,000-seat current home of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." The New 42nd Street, a nonprofit organization, approved the switch and remains the theater's landlord.
The acquisition makes the Foxwoods the 40th venue now owned by the Ambassador Theatre Group and likely will mean a renaming of the theater. The group, which owns several central London theaters including the Apollo Theatre and Lyceum Theatre, bought Live Nation's UK theaters for $147 million in 2009.
The theater now known as the Foxwoods underwent a major renovation in the mid-1990s and reopened in 1998 as the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. In 2010, it became Foxwoods Theatre and its tenants have included "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Young Frankenstein."
(L-R) Cartoonists Plantu of France, Ali Dilem of Algeria, Nadia Khiari of Tunisia, and Belgian-born Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka of Israel pose during a photocall for the event 'Cartooning for Peace' at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 20, 2013. The Festival de Cannes is hosting an auction of original cartoons from various cartoonists on Monday to support the Cartooning for Peace Association.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death.
Looking on with worry is circus manager John Matthew. For 38 years, he has been in the business of entertaining people throughout southern India. But there's little to smile about these days. The big top set up in a desolate field outside Mumbai seats 3,000 people. Recently, there have been less than 100 tickets sold.
In the 1990s, 300 circuses operated throughout the country. That number has dwindled to about 30, says Matthew. And many of those are being hammered by the rising rents for field space, shrinking revenues and - crucially - two Supreme Court rulings that took away the industry's main attractions.
Circuses once held legendary status in India as entertainment for everyone from princes to pariahs. The biggest names pitched their tents in town centers, drawing huge crowds night after night. The modern circus here is a 130-year-old tradition that according to local lore began when a southern rajah's horse trainer was taunted by the leader of a visiting Italian show, who said India couldn't build its own circus. The trainer, Vishnupant Chartre, founded The Great Indian Circus within months, spawning a national love affair with clowns, wild animal acts and death-defying feats.
In the 1990s, India's Supreme Court banned the use of wild animals in circuses, citing widespread neglect of lions, bears, monkeys and panthers. Then, two years ago, it banned child performers.
A women wearing a dress of fresh flowers designed by Zita Elze poses for photographers in the M & A Centenary Garden during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens to the public on Tuesday.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
The rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the northern Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday.
The population of the fox dropped to an all-time low of just 70 animals on Santa Cruz Island in 2000 before rebounding to 1,300 foxes now, said Yvonne Menard, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service. Santa Cruz is the largest island.
Populations on nearby San Miguel and Santa Rosa islands have also bounced back into the hundreds after dropping in 1999 to just 15 of the cat-sized animals on each island.
The island fox is only found on six of the Channel Islands, a chain of eight islands, five of which form a national park. Each of the six islands has its own unique fox subspecies because of generations of genetic isolation.
Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died at his home in New York.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said in a statement Monday that Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness. He was 91.
Waber debuted as an author in 1962 with "The House on East 88th Street." The book introduced readers to the loveable Lyle, first spotted in a bathtub in an Upper East Side brownstone. Lyle's story continued in "Lyle Finds His Mother," ''Lyle and the Birthday Party" and other works.
He was a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art.
Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at a medical clinic in Germany at age 74 following a battle with cancer, the group's manager Tom Vitorino said.
Manzarek, who lived in Northern California's Napa Valley wine country for the past decade, had been seeking treatment in Germany for bile duct cancer, Vitorino said. He died in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his wife and brothers.
Singer Jim Morrison and then-UCLA film student Manzarek formed The Doors in 1965 after a chance meeting at Los Angeles' Venice Beach, and Manzarek's keyboard work would go on to be a touchstone of hits like "Break On Through to the Other Side" and "Light My Fire."
The band, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, sold some 100 million records since its heyday with psychedelic-era classics such as 1971's "Riders on the Storm."
Manzarek's electric organ was a defining aspect next to Morrison's booming voice in the band's blues- and jazz-influenced take on rock and roll.
The Doors broke up shortly after Morrison's death from heart failure in 1971, but their mythology exploded following the 1980 publication of the biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and the 1991 film, "The Doors," by director Oliver Stone.
The band recorded a total of eight albums between 1967 and 1972. After the band's break up, Manzarek released two albums with the rock band "Nite City" in the late 1970s and six solo albums, most recently "Translucent Blues" in 2011 with blues-rock guitarist Roy Rogers.
Manzarek and Krieger became locked in a legal battle with drummer John Densmore in 2003 after the two reunited under The Doors name and later "The Doors of the 21st Century," but were finally forced to tour as Manzarek-Krieger.
Manzarek is also the author of two novels and most notably the 1998 memoir, "Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors."
Manzarek is survived by his wife, Dorothy, two brothers, a son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren.
British artist Marc Quinn poses for a photograph with his sculpture of an orchid in the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) garden during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens to the public on Tuesday.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
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