April 28, 2013 The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time dominated the UK's most
prestigious theatre awards, equalling the record by picking up seven Oliviers,
including best actor for its star, Luke Treadaway. The 28-year-old, who gives an astonishing
performance as 15-year-old maths genius Christopher Boone, beat off heavyweight
competition in the shape of Rupert Everett, James McAvoy, Mark Rylance and Rafe
Spall to pick up the prize at the Royal Opera House ceremony. The awards, now in their 37th year, also saw Helen
Mirren win
her first Olivier, for her performance as the Queen in The Audience. The musical honours were shared by Top Hat and
Sweeney Todd, which won three apiece.
Elementary, my dear Watson: The supposed
explanation that Sherlock Holmes gave to his assistant, Dr. Watson, when
explaining deductions he had made. In
fact the line doesn't appear in the Conan Doyle books, only later in Sherlock
Holmes' films. He does come rather close
at a few of points. Holmes says
"Elementary" in 'The Crooked Man', and "It was very superficial,
my dear Watson, I assure you" in 'The Cardboard Box'. He also says "Exactly, my dear Watson, in
three different stories. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/elementary-my-dear-watson.html
Ten Most Famous Quotations from Sherlock Holmes
Stories
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Quotation
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CROO
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100
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CROO
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92+
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SIGN
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92
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COPP
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84
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STUD
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84
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SCAN
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82
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SIGN
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76
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SECO
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74
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SILV
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68
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HOUN
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66
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http://www.bestofsherlock.com/top-10-sherlock-quotes.htm
The Andy Warhol Bridge
in Pittsburgh
was "yarn-bombed" the weekend of August 10, 2013 by volunteers who
had permission to cover the span with knitted blankets in the name of art. Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc. http://fiberartspgh.org/guild/
used machine-knitted blankets
to cover the bridge's towering superstructure, while individual blankets
knitted by more than 1,200 volunteers cover the bridge's walkways. The group plans to leave the blankets in
place for several weeks, then wash them so they can go to homeless shelters,
nursing homes and animal shelters. Link to photo slideshows (Knit the Bridge
and The Many Bridges of Pittsburgh) at: http://www.wtae.com/news/local/allegheny/group-wants-to-cover-andy-warhol-bridge-with-knitting/-/10927008/20539456/-/qxyotw/-/index.html
August 14, 2013 DAKAR, Senegal—Makhtar
Fall sat behind his anchorman's desk in a two-button blazer, clutched a
stack of cue cards and then cleared his throat to report the evening news. The nightly news is beginning to rhyme in
Senegal, a hip-hop-crazy country where half of the population isn't yet 18. Mr. Fall and his co-anchor Cheikh Sene, both
aging rap stars, have found second careers dropping the week's developments
into verse. "Bienvenue, we've got news for you!" he rapped
in French. A menacing electro-beat
blared in the background as Mr. Fall chopped his hands through the air the way
rappers do. "We've got some good news, some bad news, but we've got some
news for you!" Messrs. Fall and
Sene's show only lasts five minutes. First,
Mr. Fall, 39 years old, rocks a flow in French. Then Mr. Sene, 40, delivers the same news in
Wolof, the Senegalese language. Topics
are wonky: world affairs, public health,
politics, weather. Sometimes, they drop
a few lines in English. Asked where he
learned the language, Mr. Fall said he picked up a bit from listening to Nas, a
rapper from Queens, New York—one of his biggest influences. Drew Hinshaw
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324809004578638360721172962.html?mod=djemITP_h
August 12, 2013 AS A MASTER
of the thought experiment, he had the ability to think both outside the box and
inside the paradox. Erwin Schrödinger,
the famed Austrian physicist, shared the Nobel Prize
in 1933 for his eponymous equation on quantum wave mechanics. But because no scientist this side of Pavlov
is so closely and popularly associated with a domestic pet, Google celebrates
the anniversary of Schrodinger’s birth with a feline Doodle. Few thought experiments have weaved their way
into mainstream culture with quite the feral fascination as “Schrödinger’s
cat,” which challenged the conventional “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum
mechanics by posing the paradox: Can a
cat placed in a steel box (alongside poison and a radioactive source) then be
observed to be simultaneously alive and dead — and does the act of observation
collapse this “superposition” into one of two states? Everyone
from science-fiction authors to screenwriters, musicians to webcomic creators
have toyed — like a feline to a ball of theoretical yarn — with this elegant paradox
that won even Einstein’s praise. While
discussing his new best-selling novel (”The Ocean at the End of the Lane”) with Comic Riffs this summer,
for instance, Neil Gaiman noted that the book’s kitten can seem to exist within
two realms simultaneously; the writer cited the weird and beautiful wonder of
Schrödinger’s cat. (Also, in Gaiman’s “American Gods,” one
character memorably says: “If they don’t ever open the box to feed it, it’ll
eventually just be two different kinds of dead.”) And one of our favorite comic lines comes
courtesy of the space strip “Brewster Rockit,” in which “This Rockit
Science Moment is brought to you by the makers of Shrödinger’s cat-litter box. If you don’t observe it, then you don’t have
to change it.” Michael Cavna See Google Doodle and other images at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/erwin-schrodinger-googles-cat-doodle-honors-physicist-and-his-legacys-many-lives/2013/08/12/06897984-02fe-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_blog.html
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