Monday, March 15, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, March 15, 2010)
(1)- HAND MODELS -- Plenty of corporate ad campaigns use hand models, and the few in the business have been busier than ever since the recent boom in popular handheld electronic devices. Who are these people, and how did they land these gigs?

(2)- DIFFICULT THOUGHTS – Famed Cosmologist George Ellis considers the most dangerous idea in science to be the suggestion that our universe is but a tiny part of an unimaginably large and diverse multiverse.

(3)- THE ART OF LIST-MAKING -- What can lists tells us about the personality of the list-maker? An exhibition in Washington reveals the obsessive and controlling sides of some of the world's greatest artists.

(4)- FASCINATING HIPPO TALK -- The African jacana bird is said to spend an average of five hours each day riding on the back of wading hippos – pecking at and ingesting flies, parasites, ticks, detritus and dead skin.

(5)- BUILDING BRAINS -- Using computer processors that behave like neurons in the neocortex, Henry Markram is inching closer to building a simulated human brain—a truly conscious machine.

(6)- DIAMOND TALK -- In the hands of eccentric millionaire heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean, the Hope diamond was treated more like a plaything than precious gem. She wore it on rollercoasters, swimming and when doing yard work.

(7)- THE PROBLEM -- The severity of social decay in different countries reflects a key difference among them: not the number of poor people or the depth of their poverty, but the size of the gap between the poorest and the richest.

(8)- NO MICRO PRIVACY -- Privacy-loving Americans reject the idea of implanting microchips within their bodies, but one in four Germans is enthusiastic about the idea of having a chip implanted as long as there are tangible benefits involved.

(9)- TRANSGENIC PORK -- Canada and the United States are now moving toward approval of pork from transgenic pigs for your dinner table. It's worth moving past the initial wow factor and considering the implications of this culinary development.

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