Tuesday, April 13, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, April 13, 2010)
(1)- MORE ON SHAKESPEARE WOES – Stratfordians, Marlovians, Oxfordians, Baconians, and the rest share an anachronistic insistence. They try to find autobiographical details in his plays and poetry that will confirm the true identity of the author.

(2)- GLAMOUR – As critics who denounce movies that “glamorize violence” or “glamorize smoking” understand, glamour is much more than style. It is a potent persuasive tool, a form of nonverbal rhetoric. It heightens and focuses desire.

(3)- BEER AND WOMEN -- Jane Peyton, an author and historian, says the fairer sex are behind the popularity of beer, and have been involved in its production since brewing began between 7,000 and 9,000 years before Christ.

(4)- WARTIME ARMY FOOD -- French forces go into combat carrying metal tins with dishes defining France’s culinary heritage: veau Marengo, navarin d’agneau, salmon terrine and duck mousse, to name a few. Others are not so lucky.

(5)- THE WHOLE PAPAL MESS -- The ever-widening scandal over Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of Church sex abuse cases has an eerily familiar ring: it's unfolding in much the same way that Watergate played out for Richard Nixon.

(6)- KOREAN MIRACLE -- Today South Korea is the world’s most digital nation, with a $28,000 per capita income, the transformation largely took place during 1965-1985, and is known as the “Korean Miracle.”

(7)- TOADS KNOW – Mankind has craved a tool that can provide an early warning of earthquakes. Now a newly published scientific paper says toads can predict earthquakes and male toads give 5-days warning, based on pre-seismic cues.

(8)- MULTI-TASKING -- Utah psychologists report 2.5 percent of the U.S. adult population has multi-tasking capabilities. Put another way, 97.5 percent of the population cannot simultaneously drive safely, phone talk and/or text.

(9)- EARLIER THAN KINSEY -- Decades before Kinsey, Stanford professor Clelia Mosher polled Victorian-era women on their bedroom behavior—then kept the startling results under wraps.

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