Saturday/Sunday, March 20-21, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, March 20-21, 2010)
(1)- POETRY -- The first stanza in the first poem of Joan Houlihan's poem sequence, The Us, tells us, the readers, that we are listening to a voice from outside of time:

(2)- HISTORY -- The whole point of The EU, European economic and political unity, from the German point of view, was to drown the German nation and its singular history into something larger and more palatable. These days…

(3)- COMIC EVOLUTION -- Comics have almost no mass and yet be the most mass of mass arts: Garfeld had up to 263 million readers a day. Comics are a new art, just over a century old, and usually an unusually accessible one. Do they evolve?

(4)- EXPLAINING NAMES -- Live Science reports that researchers believe an explosion of unusual baby names is a cultural shift that ignores the once-valued "fitting in" and embraces the frowned- upon idea of "standing out.

(5)- INSIDE CHICKN NUGGETS -- You’d think that breaded lump of chicken would be pretty simple. Mostly, it would contain bread and chicken. But the McNugget and its peers at other fast-food restaurants are more complicated creatures than that.

(6)- 1863 WAR CODE -- The "Lieber Instructions" represent the first attempt to codify the laws of war. They were prepared during the American Civil War by Francis Lieber, then a professor of Columbia College in New York, and promulgated by President Lincoln.

(7)- TERMITE WOES -- Britain’s only colony of termites has survived 12 years of attempts to wipe it out using chemicals. The termites, which can ravage a house by eating it, were thought to have been destroyed after an eradication program.

(8)- LIFE & THE PILL -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill. British researchers observed more than 46,000 women for nearly four decades from 1968.

(9)- DETROIT -- The drive along empty ghost freeways into the ruins of inner-city Detroit is an Alice-like journey into a severely dystopian future. Passing the giant rubber tyre that dwarfs the nonexistent traffic in testament...

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