Thursday, May 13, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, May 13, 2010)
(1)- AXES -- A Canadian company creates designer wood-chopping axes selling for between $200 and $500 in New York. The designer who paints, varnishes and stains the axes, says they are designed to cut through even the most difficult wood.

(2)- RELIGION -- About half of the U.S. public (49%) says they have had a religious or mystical experience, defined as a "moment of sudden religious insight or awakening." This is much higher than in surveys conducted in 1976 and 1994.

(3)- ARDI -- Although, there is not a lot of consensus in the scientific community about whether one particular fossil represents some not so recent common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans, it gives into some human specific traits.

(4)- FULL MOON NAMES -- Here is a listing of all of the full moon names, as well as the dates and times for 2010. Since the lunar ("synodic") month is roughly 29.5 days in length on average, the dates of the full moon shift from year to year.

(5)- NEW STADIUM WOES -- Homers have declined drastically at new Yankee Stadium. Was last year a fluke? In the Yankees' first six home games this season, there were just 13 homers, compared to 25 at the same point in 2009.

(6)- LOOK OUT TOYOTA -- Hoping to bridge the gap between SUVs and helicopters, the military's advanced research projects agency is seeking proposals for flying cars. The idea is to give troops flexibility to reach targeted areas -- however remote.

(7)- EUROPE?? -- Perceptions of Europe have shifted markedly. Where once stood an attractive post-nationalist model of peace, prosperity, social justice and ecological virtue now stumbles a larger but seemingly aimless project.

(8)- ANSWERS -- Taking up a topic as philosophically huge as ‘the meaning of life’ is a daring task, not only because the question may sound rather pretentious, but because of vastness and vagueness of the concepts of both ‘meaning’ and ‘life.’

(9)- EBERT -- 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

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