Wednesday, January 20, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, January 20, 2010)
(1)- EXPLAINING -- “Evolution may help explain copulation and even cooperation, but can it account for the creative side of human life...?” This is the main issue in Brian Boyd’s book On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction.

(2)- MANNERS -- "How to be offensive without being ill-bred." This, noted Bertrand Russell, was the vital element missing from etiquette books given that the demise of dueling had "made it difficult to be insulting without being ungentlemanly."

(3)- AUDIOPHOOLERY -- Ethan Winer (an audio engineer, musician, and skeptic), reveals that the worlds of audio engineering and consumer electronics are filled with pseudoscience.

(4)- AWARD – Kirill Gerstein, is the sixth member of an elite and eclectic group of pianists that includes Ingrid Fliter, Piotr Anderszewski and Leif Ove Andsnes; winners of the $300,000 Gilmore Artist Award, given to an unsuspecting pianist.

(5)- NICKLE NEWS -- A rare 1913-dated U.S. Liberty Head nickel that was featured in a 1973 episode of the TV series, "Hawaii Five-O," is auctioned off for $3.7 million Only five such coins are known and the winning bidder "is an east coast bidder.

(6)- PASSING THOUGHTS -- Researchers say the average male turns his thoughts to sexual intercourse 13 times a day (4,745 times every year). In comparison, women think about sex just five times day – or 1,825 times a year.

(7)- HIGH STING REPORT -- A man has been stung by an irukandji jellyfish when he was splashed with seawater while fishing from a bulk carrier off north Queensland. The incident occurred 25 metres above sea level at Abbot Point north of Bowen.

(8)- TEENSPEAK -- A generation of teenagers who communicate via the Internet and by text messages are risking unemployment because their daily vocabulary consists of just 800 words, the Government's new children's communication tsar has warned.

(9)- TSUNAMI SIGN SCANDAL -- San Diego recently put up $1,500 worth of tsunami evacuation route signs, provided by the federal government. The city spent an extra $21,000 for their installation and to have replacement signs at the ready.

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