Wednesday February 3, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday February 3, 2010)
(1)- POOR CHARLES -- That Charles Darwin was incapacitated by seasickness for much of his voyage on the HMS Beagle may not be surprising. But the author of The Origin of Species experienced disabling nausea and vomiting for most of his life.

(2)- ECONOMIC SOPHISMS -- Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist. Among his better known works is Economic Sophisms, which contains many strongly-worded attacks on statist policies.

(3)- PARADOXYMORON -- This is a movie of a super-cool "painting" hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best It's called "Paradoxymoron", by Patrick Hughes.

(4)- LONG, LONG LIST OF FEARS -- Achluophobia Fear of darkness; Acousticophobia Fear of noise; Acrophobia Fear of heights; Agoraphobia Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded places; Ailurophobia Fear of cats; Alektorophobia Fear of chickens; Alliumphobia Fear of garlic.

(5)- GADGETRY -- Collection of useful bathroom gadgets and creative inventions designed to make our lives easier and more efficient.

(6)- AND THEN THERE'S THIS - How to Hollow a Book in 80 Easy Steps... Lessons borne of trial and error and error.

(7)- TEA PLEASE -- Sales of tea in the UK rose last year for the first time in four decades as economically depressed consumers remembered just how comforting a cuppa can be. Tea experts believe young women are driving sales.

(8)- WHAT'S LEFT? -- Little remains of the the great North African empire that was Rome’s most formidable enemy. Because, explains Richard Miles, only its complete annihilation could satisfy its younger rival.

(9)- CHOICES -- Boston physician Lawrence M. DuBuske was given a choice: Either stop moonlighting as a paid speaker for pharmaceutical companies or quit his job at a top Harvard teaching hospital. He quit the hospital.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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