Monday, March 29, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, March 29, 2010)
(1)- BAD LANDLORD LIST -- How many bad landlords are there in New York City? Who can count that high? Assembled here is this group of ten really bad landlords—listed in no particular order—only after months of research.

(2)- GET PREGGERS, GET HEALTHY - Researchers find pregnancy promotes damaged liver and muscle regeneration in elderly mice. Forced false pregnancy using specific molecules that trigger liver regeneration and growth in older rodents was used.

(3)- TEEN MUSIC – A study published in Neuroimage says selling 4 million albums does not translate to having four million people like your music. It’s more likely a lot of those purchases were made out of fear of social rejection.

(4)- BYE, BYE SODIUM -- The largest North American food maker, Kraft Foods, says its plans would eliminate more than 10 million pounds -- or more than 750 million teaspoons -- of salt from some of North America's most popular foods.

(5)- TROUBLE FORECAST -- Leonardo da Vinci predicted that the world would end in 4006, Vatican researcher Sabrina Sforza Galitzia says she found clues in da Vinci’s Last Supper mural -- the end of the world in a “universal flood.”

(6)- COLLECTORS -- Some call them pack-rats, others call them crazy but to collectors they're just passionate. It's hard to describe the need collectors feel. For some it's a fun hobby, but many collectors who take it further.

(7)- FACEBOOK CAPTURES MAFIA BADGUY -- One of Italy's 100 most-wanted criminals, a vicious mafia boss who had been on the run for months, was betrayed by his passion for social networking and flushed out thanks to Facebook.

(8)- IN INDIA, FACEBOOK IS ADORED -- The social-networking giant has opened its first-ever office in Asia—in the country where being all up in one another's business is practically a birthright.

(9)- FOREIGN POLICY QUESTION -- The idea that those living in freedom should act to protect others less fortunate, and assert ethical value and human solidarity primacy in international affairs, is a noble but complicated ideal.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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