Tuesday, May 18, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, May 18, 2010)
(1)- STING'S BACK AT IT -- More than 20 years ago Sting campaigned to stop one of the world’s biggest dams from being built in the middle of the Amazon. Today, he's back protesting over a revived threat to the indigenous Indians he championed.

(2)- MARS -- Earth needs liquid water and if we find it on Mars… We know there’s plenty of frozen water on Mars; Mars is cold, and the air is thin, making liquid water on the surface difficult to achieve, let alone sustain.

(3)- SEAFOOD RECIPES REVEAL OURSELVES -- By studying 120 years of Northwest seafood recipes, biologist Phil Levin stumbled on a pattern: He could follow our changing relationship with the sea by scouring what we eat.

(4)- NORWEGIAN FACTS -- Of the 132 murders in Norway during the past five years, fully a third of the murderers showed signs of mental illness. Psychiatric problems played a major role, says a recent analysis delivered to the government.

(5)- EURO DOOM -- Greece is only the beginning. The world's leading economies long lived beyond their means, and the financial crisis caused government debt to swell dramatically. Now the bill is coming due, but not all countries can pay it.

(6)- SPY STUFF -- The proprietary information that spies purvey is so much riskier than the products of rational analysis. Rational inferences can be debated openly and widely. Secrets belong to a few folks, and are hostage to private agendas.

(7)- AN ACCOUNT -- Norman Stone’s masterly new account of the cold war makes its points by resort both to empirical fact and to subjective truths. And it shows that we are nowhere near the end of history.

(8)- YOGA HISTORY -- Yoga wasn't always mainstream, as Robert Love says in his rollicking and well-researched history of yoga's early days in America. The spiritual discipline that colonized America's gyms was once a fringe practice.

(9)- RIGHT & WRONG -- A growing body of evidence suggests humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. One can see glimmers of moral thought, moral judgment and moral feeling even in the first year of life.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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