Thursday January 28, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday January 28, 2010)
(1)- FRANCE OWES -- When it came to Haiti, France was first a brutal colonizer, and then a usurious bully. Tunku Varadarajan on why it’s time for reparations.

(2)- QUANTUM PHOTOSYNTHESIS -- A recent article suggessd that plants use quantum entanglement in photosynthesis. What can this mean? The answer is more (and less) than expected. Take a quick look at quantum entanglement and find out why.

(3)- NEW YORK CONFUSION -- Upper West Side residents are flabbergasted by a growing number of malfunctioning crosswalk signs that display "Walk" and "Don't Walk" symbols simultaneously. 13 of the conflicting signals were spotted recently.

(4)- AIRLINE CAMPAIGN -- An Air New Zealand online marketing campaign that mocks the desperation of older women (or "cougars") who supposedly prowl bars looking for younger men to bed has been criticised as being sexist and "lame."

(5)- COSTLY HAM -- "The world's most expensive ham" has gone on sale in London, according to retailer Selfridges. The leg of Iberico ham, which costs £1,800, went on sale at the food hall in the retailer's flagship store in central London.

(6)- MISTAKEN IDENTITY -- One night in May 2007, Michael Lee Ainsworth argued with a police officer and wound up injured. But behind the encounter was another fateful day nearly 46 years earlier.

(7)- NEW STUDY -- No one likes a show-off. But to get ahead in this world, you're going to need to let at least some people know what you're capable of. Thankfully Nurit Tal-Or has arrived with a pair of studies that offer some insight.

(8)- ANTIPATHY -- Written between 1180 and 1194, a century after the Norman Conquest united England and Normandy against a common enemy in France, a newly ranslated 396-line poem was part of a propaganda war between London and Paris.

(9)- SCOTISH EXCESS -- Adults in Scotland are drinking the equivalent of 46 bottles of vodka each in a year, a study has suggested. The research was based on industry sales data analyzed by National Health Service Health Scotland.

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