Saturday/Sunday, January 30-31, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, January 30-31, 2010)
(1)- FINALLY FOUND -- More than 1,000 years after she was carted off to Germany to marry an ambitious Saxon duke, experts believe they have identified the body of Princess Eadgyth.

(2)- ROOT HACKER -- In the last few years a radical movement has been germinating in the urban wastelands of London. But the only explosions this group of activists are interested in are colorful outbursts of flora in the big city.

(3)- WHAT'S IN A NAME? -- Workers with the names Andy and Sarah are most likely to ring in sick and fake their illness to try and earn a day off work, a survey has disclosed.

(4)- VERY, VERY STRANGE -- More than 200,000 Swedes joined a Facebook group claiming to be collecting donations to help earthquake victims in Haiti before it was revealed as a hoax by the “Swedish Necrophilia Association."

(5)- ALCOHOL ANSWERS -- US Archaeologist Patrick McGovern, an expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites, reckons the thirst for a boozy brew was enough of an incentive to start growing crops.

(6)- WHOLE FOODS HEALTH CARE -- Organic-foods magnate John Mackey talks about his controversial health care proposals, why he was investigated by the feds, and “conscious capitalism.”

(7)- EVOLUTION?? -- Humans are selfish. the same goes for so many assertions: Greed is good. Altruism is an illusion. Cooperation is for suckers. Competition is natural, war inevitable. The bad in human nature is stronger than the good.

(8)- FOREIGN LIT -- It is impossible to write about such a book as Best European Fiction 2010 without also writing about America's disinterest in such a book. The author of the introduction and the editor of the anthology offer this up.

(9)- ANTI-ENLIGHTENMENT -- It makes sense, that when Sternhell comes to consider The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition, he should write with something more than detached intellectual curiosity. Even the title of the book has a polemical edge.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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