Wednesday, June 9, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, June 9, 2010)
(1)- BLAME THE BIRD -- Authorities in Kentucky say a bird flew into the open window of a car traveling on Interstate 75 in Madison County and caused a crash in which the car landed upside down in the median. The driver was unharmed.

(2)- COLD WAR HISTORY -- The British historian Norman Stone's 'personal' account of the Cold War is by turns passionately opionated, scabrously humorous and shamelessly partisan, writes Matthew Price.

(3)- EUROPE’S IMMIGRANTS -- The French and British experience as colonizers—and the ways in which those under imperial rule would come to see their occupiers—haunt the place of Muslim immigrants on both sides of the Channel.

(4)- JUNK FOOD WHY – One reaction in the obesity panic is the attempt to find out what has caused the waistline expansion. Are we eating too much, exercising too little, eating the wrong kinds of things, or is it something else?

(5)- FILIPINO RICE -- 'Filipino Rice Policy' is an eye opening short documentary that explores the world of politics surrounding Agriculture in the Philippines. Myths, corruption, and the lack of understanding.

(6)- WHISTLEBLOWING VIDEO -- This whistleblowing website has unveiled an in-depth report based on what it claims to be classified footage of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad that claimed the lives of two Reuters employees.

(7)- BUTTERFLY WINGS -- Scientists at Cambridge University have found a way to mimic the colors on tropical butterfly wings, which could be used to make bank notes and credit cards far harder to forge.

(8)- ELECTRIC CARS -- Despite zillions of research dollars and many ingenious forays into battery chemistry, engineering, and technology, the great battery breakthrough that has been hoped for remains just around this corner and over that horizon.

(9)- ILLUSION OF CONTROL -- Quantitative numbers are seductive because they seem so irrefutable and controllable. Which is to say, they offer the illusion of control. And yet experts are rethinking their faith in quantitative analysis.

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