Tuesday, April 6, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, April 6, 2010)
(1)- RETHINKING OUR CONSCIOUSNESS -- New research in evolutionary biology, cognitive sciences and neuroscience is laying the foundation for a wholesale reappraisal of human consciousness.

(2)- FRENCH CHEESE REPORT -- 7000 years before Christ, hunters became graziers, and realized that milk could solidify and the taste was different. Then, cheese was made all over the world. Herein, it's history and orgins:

(3)- ROBOT JOURNALISTS -- Researchers at the Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab (ISI) at Tokyo University have developed a journalist robot that can autonomously explore its environment and report what it finds.

(4)- STRONGEST INSECT -- After months of grueling tests, a species of horned dung beetle takes the title for world's strongest insect. The beetle, called Onthophagus taurus, was found to be able to pull a whopping 1,141 times its own body weight.

(5)- SMELLY SNEAKERS -- A Connecticut 11-year-old's sweaty sneakers were named the smelliest shoes in the country during a national competition in Vermont. She was awarded $2,500 cash, an all-expenses-paid New York vacation and other stuff.

(6)- VLADIMIR NABOKOV -- He has a reputation for being a great prose stylist. The Original of Laura: elevated prose, a recondite lexicon, elegant quicksilver sentences, minute precision of visual detail, pointed allusion… and more.

(7)- WHAT IS COMPROMISE? -- The dictionaries tell us that "compromise" etymologically arises from the notion of mutual promising, an act of cooperation, though that sense now registers as "obsolete" or "archaic."

(8)- FILM CRITIC WOES -- Critics are no longer respected as individual thinkers, only as adjuncts to advertising. We are not. And we should not be. Criticism needs to be reassessed.

(9)- DIFFERENCES – A big difference between the male and female brain is that men have a sexual pursuit area that is 2.5 times larger than the one in the female brain. And as teens, they produce up to 250 percent more testosterone.

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