Mark Strauss: This Is What the GOP's War On Science Looks Like (io9)
I've seen some surreal moments in our nation's capitol, but few can compare to watching Republican members of Congress lecture John Holdren [the president's science advisor] last week on the meaning of "science."
Mark Morford: How Not to Murder Your Ex (SF Gate)
The news is that Paltrow dared to unleash a hateful new phrase upon the wary world in her announcement of the split, indicating the modality, the way in which she and Martin are going about their celebrity separation. She said, "I am right now chopping up my two children with a chainsaw." No, wait - that's not right. That's just what it seemed like she said, given the outpouring of bile she received. She actually said her and Martin's split was to be a "conscious uncoupling."
Fred Rowson: Woodhouse (Vimeo)
The Woodhouse Nature Reserve, South East London. It's a sprawling hectare of knotted ivy and mossy tree stumps. And while its edges are speckled with rusting tins and damp takeaway boxes, its interior is verdant, untouched. There, beyond the padlocked gates some thing, some creature is living.
A cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of cohort today is in the sense "group" or "company": A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor. In a development emphasizing the idea of companionship, cohort has also come to mean a single companion, associate, or the like: The senator strode into the room followed by his faithful cohort, his son-in-law.
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DanD was first, and correct, with:
Cohort.
Actually Sally;
My problem with gout comes not so much from alcohol as it does from
food. And all the additives they put in nowadays, it's stupid.
Anyway, I feel an unreasonable need to live next to an ocean near a
desert. Yeah, I know, I'm a picky SoB.
Charlie answered:
I think you want cohort.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Cohort
secondharmonic responded:
Was a cohort
Lois Of Sparta In Oregon replied:
A "Cohort" is a group of warriors, which is not to be
confused with "Coherent" which means logically consistant,
because, as Mr. Spock would tell us, "War is not logical",
but nobody ever said humans were logical, so there you are.
And now, I must sleep...
Sally said:
One of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers, was called a cohort.
300+ of there make up a cohort! (This is a Roman soldier of course!)
PS: Tip for today, read this book, " Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt" by Michael Lewis, and then get your money out of the stock market (especially pensions) and FAST!!
I listened to an hour interview with him on NPR last night, and it's enough to make your blood run cold. Those bloody Wall Street banks, brokerage houses, and traders are off the floor of the exchange, and buying into High Frequency trading (computers), using our money and making us their pawns!! And, they are getting away with it big time!!!
Adam answered:
A Cohort.
Marian wrote:
cohort
Dale of Springy Diamond Springs, Norcali, responded:
Cohorts of course!
DJ Useo replied:
I don't remember Roman times so much anymore ( It's been a long time since lol )
but I think I'm correct with the answer "LEGION".
I also recall they travelled "On Their Stomachs", as the saying went.
So, they often went miles out of their way to ensure they camped
at the Roman equivalent of DENNYS, called DENNIUS.
HAMMIUS en CLUCKUS was big on the menu.
Alan J answered:
Cohort
MAM wrote:
Cohort
Doc Pain said:
COHORT.
or as I like to call it...... Congress.
LOL
thanks and keep up the great work, love the page.
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CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'The Millers', then a FRESH'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'The Crazy One', then a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Johnny Depp and Joseph Arthur.
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NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Community', followed by a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a FRESH'Parenthood'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Daniel Radcliffe, Cedric the Entertainer, and Travie McCoy.
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Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'Surviving Jack'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hitman', followed by the movie 'US Marshals'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 6 - The Almost People
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
[10:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Effects of External Conditions
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 1 - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Family
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Momma Cherri's
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[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 7
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[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1
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[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 5 - Barefoot Bob's
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[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Bazzini
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Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmaker', then a FRESH'Online Dating Rituals Of The American Male'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Review', and 'Tosh.0'.
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[11:00PM] Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
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Sundance -
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[11:15AM] A Good Year
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[11:00PM] Law & Order-Rage
[12:00AM] The Red Road-Snaring of the Sun
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SyFy has the movie 'Drive Angry', followed by the movie 'Machete'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Charles Barkley and Lyle Lovett.
Actor Orlando Bloom of Britain (L) poses with his son Flynn and actor Forest Whitaker after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California April 2, 2014.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
The ABC drama "Scandal," Netflix's "House of Cards" and the Toronto-shot sci-fi serial "Orphan Black" are among a record 46 recipients of Peabody Awards.
The winners were chosen by the board of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia as the "best in electronic media for 2013." They were announced Wednesday by Peabody Award-winning journalists Ira Glass and Charlayne Hunter-Gault on "CBS This Morning."
The PBS show "Frontline" won for "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" and ESPN's "Outside the Lines" won for its piece "NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating a Health Crisis."
"Orphan Black" was recognized as "a super-charged, stylized sci-fi action serial that ponders identity, humanity, bioethics and genetic research when it occasionally stops for breath. Tatiana Maslany is a marvel in the title role."
Broadcast news outlets receiving Peabody Awards included WBZ-TV and WBZ Newsradio in Boston for their extended coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the hunt for suspects. Also winning awards were KING-TV in Seattle, WTVF-TV in Nashville, and New Orleans outlets WVUE-TV, The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com.
Connie Britton has been named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program.
The actress famous for her roles in "Friday Night Lights" and "Nashville" on Wednesday became the agency's tenth such ambassador, joining actor Antonio Banderas, tennis star Maria Sharapova and a handful of soccer stars.
She plans to focus on poverty eradication, with emphasis on women's issues. She pointed out that women do 66 per cent of the world's work but make just 10 per cent of the world's income.
Her experiences abroad include studying Chinese in Beijing and travelling to Africa for documentary work and to adopt her son, Yoby, from Ethiopia. She says China was a turning point in her life.
A stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson has been returned after being kidnapped from a Las Vegas-area show.
Officials at the Westin Lake Las Vegas resort in Henderson say the critter, named Ol' Dillo, vanished while audience members were greeting Nelson after a Monday night concert.
Westin marketing director Matt Boland says Nelson's crew called in the middle of the night from the road, asking the resort to scour surveillance footage after the mascot went missing.
Boland says he was outside the hotel Tuesday morning when an apologetic man drove up and handed him a shoebox and instructions to return it to Nelson.
U.S actress Cameron Diaz arrives for the UK premiere of The Other Woman at a central London cinema, London, Wednesday April 2, 2014.
Photo by Jonathan Short
NBC says 80-year-old Willard Scott has tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend.
The veteran "Today" show personality and Paris Keena were wed Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. They have been together for about 11 years, "Today" host Matt Lauer said in sharing the news on Wednesday morning's telecast.
The jovial Scott has been a part of "Today" since 1980.
The Kremlin confirmed Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin (R-KGB) has finalised the divorce from his wife of 30 years Lyudmila following the couple's sudden split last summer.
Putin's official biography, which described him as recently as March 27 as "Married. Wife Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina," now states simply that he has two daughters with no mention of a first lady.
Lyudmila Putina had long all-but-vanished from public view, while Putin's two grown daughters have been kept so hidden from the public eye that few people know what they look like.
The private life of Putin, 61, has long been a subject of rumours, with some linking him to Olympic gymnast turned MP Alina Kabayeva. Those rumours were denied however and one publication that made the connection was shut down in 2008.
Donna Mills attends the premiere of Screen Media Films' '10 Rules For Sleeping Around' at the Egyptian Theatre on April 1, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Australia's highest court on Wednesday recognized the existence of a third "non-specific" gender that is neither male nor female, in a landmark ruling campaigners said will help end years of discrimination.
The High Court ruled that not everyone should be forced to identify as a man or woman when dealing with officials, saying some people could legitimately describe themselves as gender neutral.
The decision ended a long legal battle by sexual equality campaigner Norrie to overturn a New South Wales state edict that gender is an inherently "binary" concept involving only men or women.
The 53-year-old, who uses only a single name, was born male and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1989 to become a woman. But the surgery failed to resolve the Scottish-born activist's ambiguity about sexual identity, prompting a push for the recognition of a new, non-traditional gender.
Under the law, only a person who had undergone gender reassignment surgery could nominate themselves as "non-specific" after presenting medical evidence to back up their claims, she said.
The wax figure of American recording artist Katy Perry is unveiled at Madame Tussauds, London. The figure, which is visiting from Madame Tussauds Sydney, will be on display over the Easter period. London, Wednesday, April 2, 2014.
Photo by John Phillips
A painting by French post-Impressionist Paul Gaugin that was stolen in Britain in 1970 has turned up hanging in the kitchen of a retired factory worker in Sicily, Italian police said on Wednesday.
With it was a second missing painting by Pierre Bonnard, another French avant garde artist of the late 19th century, that the owner bought along with the Gaugin at an auction in 1975 for only 45,000 lire (23.24 euros).
The Gauguin oil-on-canvas, whose value police estimated at 10 to 30 million euros, is very different from the colorful paintings of Tahitian native women he produced after leaving Europe for Polynesia in the 1890s.
The two paintings were stolen from a London home and found in a train in the northern Italian city of Turin, where their smuggler apparently abandoned them because of a border control or some other check, the Carabinieri military police speculated.
Railway workers in Turin found the paintings and placed them in the lost-and-found deposit. Without knowing their value, the state railway company later sold them at an auction to the unidentified factory worker.
A Reang refugee wearing traditional ornaments poses as she arrives to cast her ballot at Thamsapara relief camp in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura April 1, 2014. The Reang, also known as Bru, people on Tuesday cast their votes through postal ballots for the lone Lok Sabha seat of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram. In Tripura, more than 30,000 Reang people have been displaced from neighbouring Mizoram by violence involving different tribes. Picture taken April 1, 2014.
Ashley Madison, the world's biggest online hookup site for married people, works only when monogamy is the rule on the surface but, deep inside, couples want to cheat. That's why it is scoring big in Japan.
The nation that prides itself on conformity and proper appearances reached a million users in eight and a half months, the fastest pace among any of the 37 countries where the adultery site operates. The previous record was Brazil at 10 months. The U.S., which has the biggest number of users at 13 million, took a year to achieve the one million mark. Spain took nearly two years.
Extramarital sex and affairs are not new to Japan, but a site such as Ashley Madison is a "a leveling out of the playing field" for women, said Noel Biderman, chief executive of Avid Life Media Inc., which operates AshleyMadison.com. There is a tradition of wealthy men taking mistresses in Japan and its male dominated society has provided plenty of outlets for married men to find casual sex.
Revenue comes from charging the male users, who are 64 percent of site's members in Japan and 70 percent globally. A package of 100 credits costs 4,900 yen ($49), which allow connections with 20 potential partners. Credits are also used for gifts to woo potential lovers, such as virtual flowers. The privately owned company had profit of about $40 million last year. Is revenue was about $125 million, up from $100 million in 2012.
A man breaks coconuts on a wooden pole placed above Indian villagers who lay on hot sand at the annual Danda festival or the festival of self punishment at Kulagarh village in Ganjam district, Orissa state, India, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Villagers perform acts of punishing themselves during this fifteen day long festival as they pray for the well being of their families.
Photo by Biswaranjan Rout
Almost a quarter of Europe's bumblebees are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change, threatening pollination of crops worth billions of dollars, a study showed on Wednesday.
Sixteen of 68 bumblebee species in Europe are at risk, the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said. It is preparing a global study of the bees, whose honeybee cousins are in steep decline because of disease.
"Of the five most important insect pollinators of European crops, three are bumblebee species," said the IUCN, which groups governments, scientists and conservation groups.
Of Europe's bumblebee species, populations of almost half are falling and just 13 percent are increasing, it said.
Often with yellow and black stripes and bigger than honeybees, bumblebees live in small nests of up to 200 and do not make honeycombs. Some bumblebees are commercially bred to pollinate tomatoes, peppers and aubergines in greenhouses.
Children in traditional costumes and secured on sedan chairs, attend a parade to celebrate a folk festival in Wenling, Zhejiang province April 2, 2014. Local residents celebrated the third day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar with various folk performances on Wednesday, according to local media.
Earth's moon started forming up to 65 million years later than some previous estimates, according to a study released on Wednesday that uses a new way to calculate the birthday of the 4.47 billion-year-old planet's only natural satellite.
The mega-asteroid that smashed into Earth, launching debris that later became the moon, happened about 95 million years after the birth of the solar system, research in this week's issue of the journal Nature showed.
The finding disputes, with a 99.9 percent degree of accuracy, some previous estimates that the moon-forming impact occurred as early as 30 million to 40 million years after the solar system's formation, some 4.58 billion years ago.
The new study is based on 259 computer simulations of how the solar system evolved from a primordial disk of planetary embryos swirling around the sun. The programs simulate the crashes and mergers of the small bodies until they meld into the rocky planets that exist today.
A pair of Parisian dolls belonging to Britain's Queen Elizabeth (left doll) and her sister Princess Margaret, are seen at Buckingham Palace in London April 2, 2014. Toys and childhood outfits belonging to the royal family will form part of an exhibition "Royal Childhood", during the summer opening of Buckingham Palace July 26 - September 28.
Photo by Luke MacGregor
The next time you doubt how far society has come in understanding what we eat and from where our food comes, consider the epic prank the BBC pulled on this day in 1957.
The three-minute reel, narrated authoritatively by British broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, featured a family in Switzerland who appeared to pluck strands of pasta from trees during the annual spaghetti harvest.
The family was enjoying a bountiful crop that year, Dimbleby stated, thanks in part to the early arrival of spring. And that wasn't all. "Another reason why this may be a bumper year lies in the virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil, a tiny creature whose depredations have caused much concern in the past," Dimbeby said.
Scores of viewers failed to grasp the significance of the special's April 1st air date. Many called in inquiring where they could obtain their own spaghetti bush. And with a stiff upper lip, BBC representatives simply replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce, and hope for the best."
Tulips turn "Rocky Monument" into symbol of hope for Parkinson's Disease CommUNITY campaign on April 2, 2014 outside of The Philadelphia Art Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Visit www.parkinsonsonheath.com
Photo by Lisa Lake
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