Monday February 8, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday February 8, 2010)
(1)- NEW VIEW -- Behavioral economics has become an increasingly popular topic over the last few years, as demonstrated by the success of a string of books like Predictably Irrational, Nudge, and Sway.

(2)- GATES FEAR -- that Earth might become a post-industrial wasteland plagued by heat, chronic food and energy shortages, and rampant disease unless governments and private organizations invest more time and money solving pressing problems.

(3)- FINDING OUT ABOUT MONA -- Scientists hope to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci so they can reconstruct his face to discover whether the Mona Lisa is a disguised self-portrait.

(4)- DOG CONTROVERSY -- A proposal to jail people who eat dog meat for up 15 days has caused controversy in China, where dog hot pot is traditionally popular. Details are murky and peculiar.

(5)- CRABBY CUSTOMER -- Police in Perkins Ohio arrested 61-year-old Ralph Barr for assault and criminal damaging after he repeatedly punched Kroger store manager Monte Erwin, 44, in a dispute over the price of crab cakes.

(6)- TURBAN OR NOT – New Zealand's Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club is to vote on whether turban-wearing guests should be allowed to enter its premises after a Sikh community leader in turban was refused entry for party in his own honor.

(7)- BIRTHWEIGHT WOES – US Birthweights fell but no one knows why, says a study of 36.8 million infants born between 1990 and 2005. There's been a 52-gram drop in the weight of full-term singletons – from an average of 3.441 to 3.389 kilograms.

(8)- CHILDREN -- The Children's Society report says kids living with natural parents are happier than those who share a home with step-parents or single parents. Nearly 7,000 pupils aged between ten and 15 took part in the survey.

(9)- WOLFWOMAN -- Wolfie Blackheart is not an ordinary 18-year-old. She believes she is a wolf — technically, a werewolf — and so she wears a tail and harness. Last week, she used a pocketknife in her kitchen to decapitate a dog — already dead.

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