Friday, August 20, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, August 20, 2010)
(1)- MARTIAN SUNDIAL -- The Mars Exploration Rovers will carry the first-ever interplanetary sundial. This martian sundial will also be used to calibrate Pancam, the panoramic camera on the rovers.

(2)- A CONTENDER -- Hollywood actor and Southern California resident Nick Afanasiev has the longest tongue in the United States. It measures 3.5 inches from the middle of his closed top lip to the tip of his tongue, but it's not a world record.

(3)- MARRIAGE -- Don’t worry about passion or intense connection... Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. If you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go.

(4)- UNREALISTIC HOPES -- The potential of commitment forever in a romance aligns with a 'feeling' within women that a man who is male and powerful enough to be desired by many women is the foundation gold standard for couple happiness.

(5)- SECRET NONWORD VAULT – There’s a secret vault of words rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary. Among the rejected words found in the vault are wurfing, polkadodge and nonversation; also dringle and earworm.

(6)- IMBALANCE – There’s been a decades-long sex bias in biomedicine, which leads doctors to preferentially study diseases and test drugs in males. It's a practice that puts women at risk and also limits the scope of our scientific knowledge.

(7)- WOW! -- The Saturn orbiting Cassini probe takes beautiful pictures. But while some (at first glance) look like more routine shots, when you look more closely you realize you’re gazing into awesomeness.

(8)- AFGHAN REAL HISTORY -- Until 1840 Afghanistan was better known as a 'highway of conquest' rather than graveyard of empires. For 2,500 years it was always part of somebody’s empire, starting with the Persians in the 5th Century BC.

(9)- QUANTUM THEORY -- It remains hard for anyone but a specialist to grasp. But it hasn't disappeared from sight. And, it has infiltrated the language and found a vivid new life in the works of novelists, playwrights and poets.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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