Tuesday, April 20, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, April 20, 2010)
(1)- WOMBAT WOES -- A rare wombat attack has left a survivor with bite wounds to his arms and legs. Bruce Kringle, aged in his 50s, emerged from his caravan at Flowerdale, north-east of Melbourne, to be attacked by a angry wombat.

(2)- RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- Plagued by reports of sloppy work, falsifications and exaggerations, climate research is facing a crisis of confidence. How reliable are the predictions about global warming and its consequences?

(3)- SIMONE de BEAUVOIR -- "History has shown that men have always held all the concrete powers; from patriarchy's earliest times they have deemed it useful to keep woman in a state of dependence; their codes were set up against her...”

(4)- WHAT'S IT MEAN? -- The "Contingent Faculty Index", found that in just under three decades, from 1975 to 2003, the share of faculty positions occupied by tenured and tenure-track faculty fell from 56.8 percent to 35.1 percent.

(5)- MATH PROBLEMO - Waves follow a boat; turbulent air currents follow flight. Math folks and physicists say the prediction of both the breeze and the turbulence is found through solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.

(6)- DIAMOND SALE -- A rare 5.16-carat blue diamond sold at auction for 6.4 million US dollars in Hong Kong on Wednesday, confirming Asia's fast-growing taste for the precious stone.

(7)- OLDE NEWS -- Given a choice, men prefer "hooking up" to dating, while women prefer dating with the prospect of a relationship to causal sex, James Madison University researchers said.

(8)- WHAT TO DO GUIDE -- Check out this exhaustive guide, covering how to behave if you're the first human to come in contact with an alien. Handy tips include: First things first, hold very still.

(9)- HOW IT HAPPENED -- Missing from western scholarship on the Napoleonic Wars is a full-fledged account of how Russia came to smash Napoleon. With Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace, spells out the details.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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