zEN mAN (observing actress Mila Kunis' semi-nude body cream ad campaign being banned in the UK....for false advertising! The "That '70s Show"..."Boot Camp"...."Black Swan"..."Friends with Benefits"...Ashton Kutcher bangin' Hollywood sultry spinner used her "Sexiest Woman Alive..." photos in a promo for Rodial Body Cream....whose sales line was "Get a Body to die for...." just by rubbing your ass with Rodial anti cellulite cream....got shot down because "it doesn't work..." thank gawd the Brits aren't banning her ASS.)
Andrew Tobias: No?
You think we can't afford to modernize our infrastructure and become energy efficient? Really? Don't you see we can't afford not to? Why is this controversial?
Sam Leith: The genius of Jodie Foster's speech (Guardian)
Jodie Foster's 'coming out' speech at the Golden Globes was beautiful. And it wasn't just what she said that impressed her audience, but the clever, elegant way she used the power of rhetoric to get her point across.
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes - And Have a Better Life (io9)
He's not just a snacky master of deduction. Sherlock Holmes also has some profound psychological lessons to teach. Learn from the brilliant detective's strategy of mindfulness in this excerpt from psychology researcher Maria Konnikova's new book 'Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes.'
Annalee Newitz: A gallery of sublime photographs from across our solar system (io9)
These are the postcards people will send home from their interplanetary vacations in 500 years. For now we can only gather them with robots, space stations and satellites. Still, it's pretty awesome to be living in a time when we can do even that. All these incredible visions are taken from Michael Benson's new art book 'Planetfall: New Solar System Visions' (Abrams).
Trust Fall Fail (YouTube)
"Never trust a "trust fall," especially if you don't really understand it. This illustrates a recurring theme in parenting, in that we have a hard time figuring out all the details we need to communicate when teaching a child something brand new. Sure, we know how it works, but there's so many ways to misunderstand when it's something you've never seen."--Neatorama
Luther Burbank (7 March 1849 - 11 April 1926)[1] was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.
In 1907, Burbank published an "essay on childrearing," called The Training of the Human Plant. In it, he advocated improved treatment of children and eugenic practices such as keeping the unfit and first cousins from marrying.
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In 1907, Luther Burbank published an "essay on childrearing," called The Training of the Human Plant. In it, he advocated improved treatment of children and eugenic practices such as keeping the unfit and first cousins from marrying. It's not odd that the creator of so many different plants. Besides the famed Idaho potato, Luther Burbank was also behind the cultivation of: the Shasta daisy, the July Elberta peach, the Santa Rosa plum, the Flaming Gold nectarine, Royal walnuts, Rutland plumcots, Robusta strawberries, Elephant garlic, and many more delectables.
The book has the following chapters: The Mingling of Races; The Teachings of Nature; Differentiation in Training; Sunshine, Good Air and Nourishing Food; Dangers; Marriage of the Physically Unfit; Heredity-Predestination-Training; Growth; Environment the Architect of Heredity; Character; and Fundamental Principles. This was basic Eugenic theory of the late 19th and 20th centuries, too bad he didn't live to see how the Nazis planted and harvested their hate and slaughter!
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Luther Burbank published an, essay on childrearing, called, "The Training of the Human Plant," circa 1907.
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Found these fruits in a neigbor's yard.
They don't know what it is, other than some sort of citrus.
The cold weather caused the tree to drop most of it's fruit.
I think it may be some kind of citron, but I really don't know.
The fruits are round, about 2½" long, 2" wide, and about 7" in circumference.
Anybody recognize it?
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest', followed by a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jeremy Renner and Jack Hanna.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julia Stiles and Tom Cotter.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'30 Rock', followed by a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'1600 Penn', then 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Naomi Watts, Richard Engel, and Train.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Arnold $chwarzenegger (R-Family Values), Maggie Q, and Michael Kiwanuka.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 12/17/12) are Common, Dallas Clayton, and Desaparecidos.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Last Resort', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Lopez, and "Science Bob" Pflugfelder.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'American Idol'.
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: Missing Persons', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Karate Kid', followed by the movie 'The Wedding Planner', then the movie 'Jerry Maguire'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] LIFE IN THE FREEZER-The Race to Breed
[8:30AM] LIFE IN THE FREEZER-The Door Closes
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 6 - Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sarah Millican, James Corden, Lenny Kravitz
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Gridlock
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Sin Qua Non
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 3 - Cooking with Chilli
[12:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 4 - Cooking with Spice
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Peter's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Moore Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Capri
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[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 2
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 3
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Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmaker', then a FRESH'Kathy'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'South Park', 'Tosh.0', 'Kroll Show', 'Workaholics', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Lena Dunham.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Akhil Reed Amar.
FX has 2½ hours of old 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then a FRESH'Archer', followed a FRESH'Legit', then a FRESH'Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell'.
History has 'Ultimate Guide To The Presidents', another 'Ultimate Guide To The Presidents', followed by a FRESH'Ultimate Guide To The Presidents'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-Finally! The Last Episode (Ever) (For Now ...)
[7:15AM] The Woods
[9:15AM] Pan's Labyrinth
[11:45AM] Unrest
[1:45PM] The Woods
[3:45PM] Pan's Labyrinth
[6:15PM] Open Water
[8:00PM] Scream
[10:30PM] House of 1000 Corpses
[12:30AM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[2:30AM] House of 1000 Corpses
[4:30AM] Portlandia-Cool Wedding
[5:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Chokin and Tokin (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Pilot (Episode 1, Season 1)
[7:00A] Pina
[9:00A] The Kid With a Bike
[10:30A] The Father of My Children
[12:30P] Pina
[2:30P] The Kid With a Bike
[4:00P] The Father of My Children
[6:00P] The Good Thief
[8:00P] Hoosiers
[10:00P] The Border
[12:00A] The Border
[2:00A] Quills
[4:15A] Foul Gesture (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Haven', another 'Haven', followed by a FRESH'Haven', and 'Continuum'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Martin Short, David Boreanaz, and Jake Bugg.
Actor/comedians Nick Kroll, left, and Sarah Silverman attend an exclusive screening of Comedy Central's "Kroll Show" hosted by Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at LA's Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles.
Photo by John Shearer
Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana will host the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Saturday, February 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, presenting nine awards to 25 different recipients.
The awards, first presented in 1931, honor achievements that improve the production, distribution and exhibition of movies. Past winners include IMAX and Avid.
The Academy held the first dinner for the awards in 1977 and it was hosted by Kirk Douglas and Gregory Peck.
David Friendly is producing the presentation, parts of which will be included in the Oscar telecast February 24.
Actress Kristen Schaal attends an exclusive screening of Comedy Central's "Kroll Show" hosted by Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at LA's Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles.
Photo by John Shearer
Former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has signed on as a regular contributor to Fox News Channel.
The former Ohio congressman unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004 and 2008, and recently ended his congressional career. Fox said Wednesday that Kucinich will make his debut in his new role on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Thursday night.
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes said he's always been impressed with Kucinich's fearlessness and thoughtfulness on the issues.
Kucinich, who was elected mayor of Cleveland at age 31, said Fox has always provided him with a chance to offer his perspective.
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard has been named the 2013 Harvard University Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year.
The 37-year-old French actress, who won the 2007 best actress Oscar for her role in "La Vie En Rose," will be honored with a parade and roast, and given her ceremonial pudding pot, at Harvard on Jan. 31.
The man of the year will be announced at a later date and honored on Feb. 8.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe. The awards are presented annually to performers who have made a lasting and impressive contribution to entertainment.
Diana Rakipi, a Burrnesha or sworn virgin, plays a pipe at her apartment in Durres January 16, 2013. Burrnesha are Albanian women who took a vow of chastity in return for the right to live as men in traditional, strongly patriarchal communities where women were typically treated as property. Rakipi, 59, one of the few remaining Burrnesha, said she became a sworn virgin at seventeen because she always felt like a boy.
Photo by Arben Celi
Elton John and David Furnish say they have become parents for a second time.
The couple say they are "overwhelmed with happiness" at the birth of Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.
John's spokeswoman Fran Curtis confirmed an announcement on the singer's website that the baby was born Friday in Los Angeles. The infant, born to a surrogate mother, weighs 8 pounds, 4 ounces (3.7 kilograms).
John, who is 65, and 50-year-old Furnish wed in a British civil partnership in 2005 and are parents to 2-year-old Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, born in California in December 2010, also through a surrogate mother.
An adult film producer has been sentenced to four years in prison after he was convicted of violating federal obscenity laws by selling movies depicting bestiality and extreme fetishes.
U.S. District Judge George King sentenced Ira Isaacs on Wednesday and ordered him to pay more than $10,000 in fines and court costs.
The sentencing caps a five-year legal saga that led to two mistrials. A 2008 trial was halted after the Los Angeles Times reported Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, had sexually explicit material on a personal website.
Kozinski, who presided over the trial, recused himself and was admonished by a special committee of his colleagues.
Isaacs was indicted as part of a federal task force to crack down on smut in the U.S.
PETA animal rights group activists protest against the use of fur in front of the Brandenburg Gate outside the venue of the Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013 in Berlin January 15, 2013.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
Jailed Pussy Riot protester Maria Alyokhina lost an appeal on Wednesday to be freed and have her sentence deferred so she could care for her five-year-old son.
Alyokhina is serving a two-year sentence in a remote prison - an experience she said was like something from the works of Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka or George Orwell - for a protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral.
She had asked a court to free her from the jail in the Ural Mountains town of Berezniki, 1,200 km (750 miles) northeast of Moscow, and allow her to serve out her sentence when her son was older.
"The court has ruled against granting the request," the judge said after the hearing that stretched into the evening at the city court in Berezniki.
The court found that Alyokhina's family situation had been properly taken into account during her trial.
A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting - an act that was caught on cellphone video - must remain jailed on $500,000 bonds because he is a flight risk, a Houston judge ruled Wednesday.
Uriel Landeros, 22, is charged with graffiti and criminal mischief felonies in the June 13 incident. Prosecutors say he spray painted on "Woman in a Red Armchair" at the Menil Collection in Houston.
Each felony charge carries a sentence of two to 10 years in prison.
The vandalism was captured in a 24-second video taken by a bystander and posted on YouTube. The vandal left behind an image of a bullfighter, a bull and the word "conquista," which means "conquest" in Spanish.
Landeros has, however, given several media interviews in which he admits he was the graffiti artist behind the damage to the Picasso. In videos posted to YouTube, Landeros says he didn't intend to destroy the painting but that his actions were an act of social and political defiance.
A fungus that has killed roughly 6 million bats in North America and Canada has now been found for the first time in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
White-nose syndrome, discovered in New York in 2006, has been confirmed in nine national parks and 19 states as far west as Missouri.
"I am incredibly sad to report this," Mammoth Cave National Park Supt. Sarah Craighead said at a news conference. "A northern long-eared bat showing symptoms of white-nose syndrome was found in Long Cave in the park. The bat was euthanized on Jan. 4 and sent for laboratory testing. Those tests confirmed white-nose syndrome."
Long Cave, an undeveloped cave about 1.3 miles long, is not connected to 390-mile long Mammoth Cave, a popular historic site visited by about 400,000 each year.
The park service will continue giving tours of Mammoth Cave, which annually generate about $3.9 million in fees from visitors. To prevent spread of the disease, the parks service screens all visitors before they go on a tour and has them walk across decontamination mats as they exit, Craighead said.
Earlier this week, news of a woman who fell through the sidewalk on the Upper East Side of Manhattan made headlines. Luckily, the woman, Ulanda Williams, who had been waiting for a bus when the sidewalk collapsed, survived the six-foot drop with only a broken arm and some bruises and cuts.
But adding insult to injury, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch (R-Puppet Master), who has been freely tweeting of late, had an interesting reaction to the the incident. The post from @rupertmurdoch, Jan. 15, 2013: "How did fat lady who fell thru street get to 400 lbs? Welfare, stamps, etc? Then leave us all with 20yrs immense health bills."
Not only did he assume that Williams was on welfare, but he may have missed some of the details in his own New York Post, which had noted that being heavyset may have been to her advantage.
"Thank God, they said that my size was the only thing that saved me," Williams, a 32-year-old social worker, said when she was discharged from New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Later that same day Murdoch tweeted, in a sort of mea culpa, "Did not mean to be unsympathetic to 400 lb lady, but fact remains unhealthy eating by rich and poor driving up premiums for all."
Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.
Bain died Monday of natural causes in his hometown of Livermore, Calif., according to his daughter, Jennifer Bain. He was 89.
The show that made him famous debuted on NBC in 1978, an era when television comedies tackled relevant social issues. "Diff'rent Strokes" touched on serious themes but was known better as a family comedy that drew most of its laughs from its standout child actor, Gary Coleman.
Bain said in interviews later that he struggled to talk about his TV children's troubled lives because of his love for them. After Todd Bridges started to put his drug troubles behind him in the early 1990s, he told Jet magazine that Bain had become like a real father to him.
Bain went directly into "Diff'rent Strokes" from another comedy, "Maude," which aired on CBS from 1972 to 1978.
As Dr. Arthur Harmon, the conservative neighbor often zinged by Bea Arthur's liberal feminist, Bain became so convincing as a doctor that a woman once stopped him in an airport seeking medical advice.
At a nostalgia gathering in 1999, he lamented the fading of situation comedies that he said were about something.
"I think they got off the track when they first hired a standup comic to do the lead," he said. "Instead of people creating real situations, you get people trying to act funny."
A native of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Bain arrived in New York in 1948 after serving in the Canadian army during World War II. He was still studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts when he acquired his first role on television's "Studio One."
A quick study who could play anything from Shakespeare to O'Neill, he found work in stock companies in the United States and the Bahamas, making his New York debut in 1956 as Larry Slade in "The Iceman Cometh" at the Circle in the Square.
With his plain looks and down-to-earth manner, he was always cast as a character actor.
It was an audition for a role in the 1971 film "Cold Turkey" that led Bain to TV stardom. He didn't get the part but "Cold Turkey" director Norman Lear remembered him when he created "Maude."
Conrad Stafford Bain attended high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, deciding on his life's work after an appearance as the stage manager in a high school production of "Our Town."
He married artist Monica Sloan in 1945. She died in 2009. He is survived by three children: Jennifer, Kent and Mark, and his identical twin brother, Bonar.
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