Tuesday, May 25, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)
(1)- SMART KID -- A former Harvard senior faces criminal charges after creating a fraudulent life history to win admission to Harvard, and for using forged academic materials from Harvard to apply for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships.

(2)- COMICS STAGNATE -- Why have videogames crossed over into the mainstream, but comics are still roughly where they were in the 80s? Joseph wonders if comics have a few lessons to learn...

(3)- HE KNOWS -- Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who correctly bet that housing prices would fall three years ago, now bets the market will come back soon and adds a homebuilder to his portfolio and raises his stake in a major bank.

(4)- NEW WAR -- There is a new war between science and religion, rising from the ashes of the old one, which ended with the defeat of the anti-evolution forces in the 2005 "intelligent design" trial. It’s about accommodation.

(5)- WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE -- Scientists recreate the world's oceans in a laboratory, apparently even dumping oil in them.

(6)- HOPPERS COMING -- The Pacific Northwest prepares for the worst grasshopper outbreak in 30 years. University and USDA scientists find a big increase in the number of grasshopper eggs last fall. Mild weather means a major infestation.

(7)- BIG FIND -- Astronomers find a bloated, massive galaxy that may be a record-breaker: the most massive galaxy in the near Universe. The mass may be 13 trillion times the mass of the Sun, or 20 times the mass of the Milky Way!

(8)- ODD JOBS – there are standard career choices — doctor, lawyer, teacher — but there are plenty of other options no one ever hears about. Some sound tempting, like a professional waterslide tester, while others not so much.

(9)- CHANGE -- For almost 400 years, the residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have performed their world-famous Passion Play, a reenactment of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. But change is inevitable…

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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