Paul Krugman: Coal Comfort (NY Times)
I recently had a discussion with someone who felt disappointed in Obama; he had not, this person complained, lived up to the high hopes of his supporters. My response apparently came as a surprise: I'm liking Obama more and more as he slogs through his second term.
Paul Krugman: On Inequality Denial (NY Times)
A while back I published an article titled "The Rich, the Right, and the Facts," in which I described politically motivated efforts to deny the obvious - the sharp rise in U.S. inequality, especially at the very top of the income scale. It probably won't surprise you to hear that I found a lot of statistical malpractice in high places.
Andrew Tobias: The Lincoln Memorial
That "things take time" is brought into high relief by this entry from the Writers Almanac (thanks Glenn). A mere 47 years from conception to start building the Lincoln Memorial. A further 8 to complete it. And still the keynote speaker was not allowed to sit with the white folks. (For all the progress since - astonishing, really - there remain those in positions of authority working to disenfranchise African Americans.)
"Love is an Open Door" (YouTube)
"Alex, the artist who does the webcomic Narcolepsy Incorporated, made this music video with his daughter Jade, who had been wanting to do it for weeks. The end result is well worth your time, as they lip-synch 'Love Is An Open Door' from the Disney movie Frozen. Alex, why diid you make her wait so long?" - Neatorama
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer material. It was created in 1812 by the German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs and is one of several definitions of hardness in materials science.
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Diamond is the hardest known natural material on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, where hardness is defined as resistance to scratching and is graded between 1 (softest) and 10 (hardest). Diamond has a hardness of 10 (hardest) on this scale.
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Maurice was first, and correct, with:
MOH Scale
Lois Stronger Than Talc In Oregon wrote:
The Mohs Scale is the reason I never got that AA degree.
Couldn't tell Schist from Shinola, and failed the lab
requirement. I coulda been a contender. I
coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Damn you Mohs!
Charlie said:
Mohs scale.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Mohs scale of mineral hardness
Adam answered:
Rockwell Scale.
Alan J replied:
Mohs Scale
Marian said:
Mohs scale
Deborah took the day off.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, answered:
Why that be the Mohs Scale of Hardness!
Sally is on hiatus.
MAM wrote:
In Spanish, the Tonto was renamed "Toro" or "Ponto" in Spanish-speaking countrie.
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness created in 1812 by the German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs. It measures how well a substance resists scratching by another material.
DJ Useo, recovering nicely, answered:
Wow, do I not know. Is it Tonto? Lol
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Martin Short, John Oliver, and Spanish Gold.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Amanda Peet and Kit Harington.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'The Night Shift'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jonah Hill, Rahm Emanuel, and Soundgarden.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Dennis Miller, Anna Chlumsky, and Bastille.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Aisha Tyler, Deap Vally, and Tokyo Police Club.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Extreme Weight Loss', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Wife Swap'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Tom Cruise, Alyssa Milano, and Boyz II Men.
The CW offers a FRESH'Famous In 12', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 5/21/14) are J.B. Smoove, Terry O'Quinn, and DJ Rashida.
Faux has a FRESH'Riot', followed by a FRESH'I Wanna Marry "Harry"'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another "Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Shipping Wars', then another FRESH'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life', followed by the movie '300', then a FRESH'Freakshow', followed by another FRESH'Freakshow'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 2 - The Beast Below
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Day Two
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Morgan's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 9
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 10
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Reunion
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Encounter at Farpoint (Part 1)
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Encounter at Farpoint (Part 2)
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 3 - The Naked NowNEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Code of Honor
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Encounter at Farpoint (Part 1)
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Encounter at Farpoint (Part 2)
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 3 - The Naked Now
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Code of Honor
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Reunion
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Future Imperfect (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Kandi's Wedding', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'the People's Couch'.
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 Ricky Gervais.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Morgan Freeman.
FX has the movie 'Wanderlust', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2', then a FRESH'Fargo'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', and 'Mountain Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-JENNA FISCHER WEARS A FLORAL BLOUSE AND BLACK HEELS
[6:30AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW
[6:45AM] MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
[9:45AM] ESCAPE FROM L.A.
[12:00PM] MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
[3:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MALCOLM VISITS COLLEGE
[3:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-POLLY IN THE MIDDLE
[4:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-EXPERIMENT
[4:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-DEWEY'S SPECIAL CLASS
[5:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-VICTOR'S OTHER FAMILY
[5:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-REESE JOINS THE ARMY
[6:00PM] POLICE ACADEMY 4: CITIZENS ON PATROL
[8:00PM] BLUES BROTHERS 2000
[10:45PM] UP IN SMOKE
[12:30AM] BLUES BROTHERS 2000
[3:15AM] UP IN SMOKE
[5:00AM] MARON-THERAPY
[5:30AM] MARON-THE MOM SITUATION (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Law & Order-Sundown
[7:00AM] Thumbsucker
[9:00AM] The Fabulous Baker Boys
[11:30AM] The Crucible
[2:15PM] Blood Diamond
[5:15PM] Clay Pigeons
[7:30PM] Stranger Than Fiction
[10:00PM] Stranger Than Fiction
[12:30AM] Sneakers
[3:15AM] Margin Call
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Scandal (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Star Trek: TNG', 'The Wil Wheaton Project', 'Heroes Of Cosplya', followed by a FRESH'Heroes Of Cosplay', then a FRESH'The Wil Wheaton Project', and another 'The Wil Wheaton Project'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jane Fonda, Ramon Rodriguez, and Twin Shadow.
Musicians Kris Kristofferson (L) and Randy Newman talk after receiving their 2014 PEN New England Song Lyrics for Literary Excellence awards during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts June 2, 2014.
Photo by Brian Snyder
The man who brought you the "97 scientists versus three scientists" climate debate laid out in 13 minutes what just about every media organization has been trying to describe with thousands of words.
John Oliver asked for the trolls, and the trolls obliged. A day after a segment on Last Week Tonight featured Oliver putting out the bat signal for Internet trolls, the Federal Communications Commission website has been deluged by comments. The site is experiencing intermittent outages.
U.S. pop singer Prince, left, watches the fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament between Spain's Rafael Nadal and Serbia's Dusan Lajovic at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Monday, June 2, 2014.
Photo by Michel Spingler
In a new sign of shrinking freedoms, Egypt's most popular satirist Bassem Youssef announced Monday that his landmark weekly TV show, which lambasted presidents and politicians, has been cancelled because of pressure on the station airing it and a climate in the country that no longer accepts satire.
But Youssef, Egypt's answer to Jon Stewart, gave a parting shot to the next president - former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
"Egypt is witnessing its most glorious days of freedom - and I'll cut off the tongue of anyone who says different," Youssef joked at a news conference in the Cairo theater where his show, "ElBernameg" was filmed.
Youssef told reporters that Saudi-owned MBC-Misr TV, which has been carrying his show, had come under pressure to halt it, though he would not say from whom.
"I'm not a revolutionary and I'm not a warrior. I was expressing my views once a week. The present climate in Egypt is not suitable for a political satire program," Youssef told reporters. "I'm tired of struggling and fearing and worrying about my safety and that of my family."
Ailing radio personality Casey Kasem can return to the Washington state home where he's been staying with his wife if doctors approve, a judge said Monday.
The ruling came a day after Kasem, 82, was taken by ambulance to a medical facility after an argument between his wife and one of his daughters.
Kasem can return to the home near Seattle where he and his wife, Jean, have been staying with friends if there's medical supervision and doctors say it is safe to transport him, Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Forbes said Monday.
The ruling marked the latest twist in the ongoing dispute between Jean Kasem and her stepdaughter, Kerri Kasem, who has said in legal filings that her father suffers from a form of dementia. They have been contesting who should make decisions about the entertainer's care.
Bryan Cranston poses with his award for "Outstanding Actor in a Play" at the Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, June 1, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Companies bored with a dot-com or dot-net Web address can now spice things up with a dot-Vegas suffix.
Las Vegas-based firm Dot Vegas Inc. is opening up registration Monday for the new domains, which offer registrants a chance at a shorter, more descriptive URL they might not be able to find in the crowded world of more than 100 million dot-com domains.
Entities registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse have first dibs on dot-Vegas domains. High-demand names will be up for auction starting Aug. 14, and addresses will be available to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis starting Sept. 15.
The names are part of a new wave of "top-level domains." The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit that coordinates the Internet's domain system, is in the process of rolling out hundreds of new ones, including dot-college, dot-dating, and dot-beer. Some use Chinese characters or the Cyrillic alphabet.
A reporter who has been ordered to divulge the identity of the source of classified information lost his bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to clarify whether journalists have a right to protect their confidential sources.
Without comment, the justices rejected an appeal from New York Times reporter James Risen to revisit the court's 42-year-old ruling that has raised questions about journalists' ability to shield from public view the names of people who tell them government secrets.
Risen detailed a botched CIA effort during the Clinton administration to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. His reporting is at the center of criminal charges against former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling of disclosing government secrets.
Federal prosecutors want to force Risen to testify about his sources at Sterling's trial, but Attorney General Eric Holder has suggested that the Justice Department could find a way to defuse the situation and not subject Risen to time in jail should he refuse to testify as ordered.
The last time the Supreme Court weighed in on reporters and confidential sources was in 1972, when the court held 5-4 in Branzburg v. Hayes that that nothing in the First Amendment protects reporters from being called to testify before grand juries.
Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie is shown on a stage discussing his life and work for an appreciate audience of book-loving Jamaicans and tourists in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Since 2001, the tiny, laid-back beach town in arid southern Jamaica has hosted the Calabash International Literary Festival, attracting Nobel laureates and a slew of other acclaimed writers. From modest beginnings, Calabash has transformed itself as a major international literary event.
Photo by David McFadden
Talk about the daily weather forecast, but avoid any public mention of climate change. That's the message Canadian officials have allegedly given meteorologists who work for any government-funded agency-including Environment Canada.
The government department communicates weather and meteorological information and runs a 24-hour meteorologist hotline for journalists. But if a reporter calls with questions about last winter's polar vortex or other severe weather events, a communications protocol allegedly prohibits the meteorologist who answers the phone from making any connection to climate change.
It is the Canadian government's latest effort to curb talk of climate change. Media coverage of the issue has dropped 80 percent since 2007, when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's administration passed a law prohibiting that nation's climate scientists from talking about their research and findings without government approval.
"It's definitely a scandal," Graham Saul, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, told the Montreal Gazette. Saul says the Harper administration is "muzzling scientists; they're putting climate deniers in key oversight positions over research, and they're reducing funding in key areas.... It's almost as though they're making a conscious attempt to bury the truth."
Neil Patrick Harris poses with his award for "Outstanding Actor in a Musical" at the Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, June 1, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Singer Chris Brown was released early Monday from a Los Angeles County jail, authorities said.
Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy Tony Moore told The Associated Press that Brown was released at 12:01 a.m. Monday, but he didn't have any more details.
Brown had been in custody since mid-March, when he was arrested after being expelled from a court-ordered rehab sentence for violating its rules.
And a judge last month ordered the R&B singer to remain in jail after he admitted he violated his probation by getting into an altercation outside a hotel in Washington, D.C., last year.
Demonstrators against French far-right National Front party hold placards during a march from Bastille plaza to Republique Plaza, in Paris, Thursday, May 29, 2014. Marine Le Pen's party came out on top in Sunday's European elections, and will be sending France's largest contingent to the European Parliament.
Photo by Francois Mori
The skull of a Civil War soldier and military relics found near the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield are scheduled to be sold at auction on Tuesday, to the dismay of some historians.
Estate Auction Company is hoping to sell the skull at a price of $50,000 to $250,000 to a private collector or museum, said auctioneer Thomas Taylor.
The skull was found in 1949 on private land near Benner's Farm, site of a Confederate field hospital, by someone tilling a garden, he said. A breastplate found nearby came from a Louisiana unit of the Confederate Army, he said.
The seller, who made the find, is remaining anonymous, Taylor said. He said the skull was deemed authentic because of where it was found and the relics discovered around it.
David Redden, Vice Chairman of Sotheby's auction house, holds the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta stamp, as he poses for the photographers in central London, Monday, June 2, 2014. The sole surviving one-cent of the entire 1856 issue was rediscovered by a 12-year-old Scottish boy living in South America in 1873. It is estimated to fetch between 10-20 million US dollars, which would mark a new world auction record for a stamp when will be offered in a New York sale on June, 17, 2014.
Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis
Weather officials who were baffled by mysterious clusters on radar in New Mexico last week now say a giant swarm of grasshoppers was to blame.
According to the National Weather Service, the masses were detected for four straight nights about 1,000 feet over Albuquerque.
Despite reports of showers in the area, meteorologists knew the radar wasn't picking up precipitation because the particles were not uniform.
"We actually thought the radar was broken, so we had our technicians go out there a couple times," Brent Wachter, a forecaster with the weather service in Albuquerque, told KRQE. "They couldn't find anything wrong."
Officials at the Albuquerque Environmental Department say last year's monsoon season coupled with a dry winter led to an influx of grasshoppers, which hatched a few weeks ago and were likely pulled up high into the atmosphere by thermal inversions and southwest winds.
Lady Mary Soames, the last surviving child of Britain's World War II prime minister Winston Churchill, has died at the age of 91, her family announced Sunday.
The baroness died peacefully at her home on Saturday surrounded by family members, following a short illness.
She was the youngest of Churchill's five children.
She married the Conservative politician Baron Christopher Soames, and they had three sons and two daughters.
She wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Clementine Churchill, in 1979, which won a Wolfson Prize, and her own memoirs.
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