Thursday February 4, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday February 4, 2010)
(1)- VESTIGAL ORGANS – Here is a feature article that looks at how the idea has changed over the years, and how it has come under attack from creationists anxious to deny that vestigial organs (and hence evolution) exist at all.

(2)- CANADA SPY -- Ken Taylor, the Canadian diplomat celebrated 30 years ago for hiding U.S. embassy personnel during the Iranian revolution, actively spied for the Americans and helped them plan an armed incursion into the country.

(3)- ISLAM AND HAIR -- Muslim clerics in Indonesia have demanded a ban on women having perms or straightening their hair, which they described as 'inviting moral danger'. They also want to ban dreadlocks, punk haircuts and "funky hairstyles."

(4)- THATZA LOT -- Scientists working for the US Geological Survey say Venezuela's Orinoco belt region holds twice as much petroleum as previously thought. The geologists estimate the area could yield more than 500bn barrels of crude oil.

(5)- BRAILLE DECLINE -- New technology is making it easier for millions of blind Americans to read and write. But some say it's not necessarily a good thing. it leads to high unemployment for visually impaired -- "Braille Literacy Crisis."

(6)- BACK WHEN -- Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage... Featuring songs, dancing and slapstick, jigs involved far more than the simple Irish folk dance.

(7)- WISE MEN GONE -- In regard to two insufficiently heralded giants who died in their late 80s this past December, let one achievement stand tallest: old-fashioned wisdom, particularly wisdom about the intellectual activity they practiced...

(8)- POETRY – The editor of The Critical Flame says the delivery and distribution mechanisms for poetry has changed so that the evaluation of what’s worth reading is falling more and more to the reader/buyer.

(9)- IRVING -- While alive Irving Thalberg never allowed his name to appear in the screen credits for a single film. But he once said “I, more than any other single person in Hollywood, have my finger on the pulse of America.

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