Saturday/Sunday, January 2-3, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, January 2-3, 2010)
(1)- TAKE THAT ARCHITECTS - Architecture illustrates the social, environmental, economic, and aesthetic costs of ignoring beauty. We are torn out of ourselves by the loud gestures of people who seize our attention but give nothing in return.

(2)- GAMERS ARE PEOPLE, TOO -- Videogames are no longer the preserve of adolescent males in dark bedrooms. Their emergence as a social medium is changing the way we work, learn and fight wars.

(3)- FOREIGN AFFAIRS -- Move toward a state of entropy. Chaos and randomness abound. Now, the story of world politics unfolds without coherence, unfettered by classic balance-of-power politics, a plotless postmodern work...

(4)- GENESIS 2.0 PROJECT -- Compared with the market-driven, killer-app insta-culture of the Digital Age, the new Large Hadron Collider exists in a near-magical realm, a $9 billion cathedral of science that is, in any practical sense, useless.

(5)- NEUTRINO NEWS -- The world's biggest experiment is primed to answer one of the universe's biggest questions: what is the origin of mass? But an unexpected particle could yet steal the show.

(6)- ECONOMICS -- The success of an economy depends on its ability to invent and embrace new protocols. Kling and Schulz use the phrase “adaptive efficiency,” but they are really talking about how quickly a society can be infected by new ideas.

(7)- NEVER PUBLISHED -- In the spring of 1998, Time commissioned Al Hirschfeld, the doyen of American caricaturists, to draw an unusual cover. It would celebrate five outstanding “Artists and Entertainers of the Century.” Never published!

(8)- CHINA -- China is so big—and is growing so fast—that in 2006 it passed the United States to become the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases. If China’s emissions keep climbing.

(9)- HANDEL – It is the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel, and musical hallelujahs rang out around the world, as choral groups trotted out the warhorse oratorios, and opera houses presented the now-standard works.

A YEAR OF POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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