Monday February 15, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday February 15, 2010)
(1)- NON-BELIEVERS CONVENE – An Atheist convention in Melbourne has sold out six weeks before it opens despite no aid from any level of government. The Global Atheist Convention in March features a stellar line-up of presenters.

(2)- NEWLY DEAD LANGUAGE -- One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island.

(3)- POLISH NEADERTHAL -- Scientists at the University of Szczecin in northern Poland have found the remains of the first Neanderthal discovered on Polish soil. The remains of tooth fragments were found in what appeared to be a grave.

(4)- DOG AND MAN -- A patron at the Mean Fiddler Hotel in Rouse Hill tried to pat and kiss a police drug dog. As a result, he has been charged with several offences. The man was in the pub at 8.45pm when police dog Bodie and his handler walked in.

(5)- CHECK YOUR WINE -- Brunello di Montalcino, the famed, rich red wine from Tuscany that was embroiled in an adulteration scandal for its 2003 vintage, has turned to technology to ensure a bottle's authenticity.

(6)- SAD -- For some folks, turning 50 can trigger a midlife crisis. But due to a cruel blow of nature, Zara Hartshorn is forced to deal with it at the tender age of 13. Though barely a teen, Briton's Zara has the appearance of a 50-year-old.

(7)- EASY EQUALS TRUE -- How ‘cognitive fluency’ shapes what we believe, how we invest, and who will become a supermodel. The new strategy is this: Invest in companies with names that are very easy to pronounce.

(8)- MEDIA MULTI-TASKING -- In an age of classroom multitasking, scholars probe the nature of learning and memory. That illusion of competence is one of the things that worry scholars who study attention, cognition, and the classroom.

(9)- ART -- Bauhaus is back. With the 90th year of the famed German art school and craft and design — the school that calls to mind sharp corners and flat roofs, glass and steel and exposed materials — come the retrospectives; commemorations.

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