Saturday/Sunday, March 27-28, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, March 27-28, 2010)
(1)- THE SOUL OF THE SCIENTIST -- The past century has seen an acceleration in the “scientization” of the humanities. The roots of this trend, as other contributors to this symposium have noted, are entwined with those of modernity itself.

(2)- PRIVACY LOST -- People often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae.

(3)- NYC EATERIES -- The New York City’s board of health voted to require restaurants to display large letter grades near their entrances. It will indicate how clean they were in their last health inspections.

(4)- ROBOT FUTURE – A future full of helpful robots, quietly going about their business and assisting humans in thousands of small ways, is one of technology's most long-deferred promises. Soon to come…

(5)- CRAZY SPY STUFF -- The Pentagon official who allegedly boasted of running his own private team of “Jason Bournes” is finally speaking out. Details of a spy ring involving Michael Furlong in Afghanistan and Pakistan are reportedly under criminal investigation by the Defense Department.

(6)- FAMILY BRITAIN – David Kynaston has again written a masterpiece. More profoundly than any other historical work. Tales of a New Jerusalem captures the rhythms and texture of everyday life and the collective experience of a nation.

(7)- BEFORE GPS -- For most of human history, losing contact with a loved one was all too easy, especially when great distances intervened. Leave-takings must have been particularly fraught when one might not ever get word of a loved one.

(8)- BE CAREFUL – A paper distributed to banks, businesses, and financial institutions, by Britain’s MI5 warns of "The Threat from Chinese Espionage," describes Chinese efforts to blackmail Western businesspeople over sex.

(9)- ANTICIPATION -- Mouth-watering meal anticipation is a factor in diabetes risk. The mechanism of the parasympathetic nervous system, triggering insulin production in those smelling or looking forward to a meal was investigated.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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