Monday, August 23, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, August 23, 2010)
(1)-PROBLEMS ADAPTING -- While our "stone age minds" have programs that are very good at detecting lies, attracting mates and avoiding predators, they are ill equipped for the kind of complex market-based society that we live in today.

(2)- IT'S A GREY AREA -- Judging historical fiction is not as simple as 'accurate equals good' and 'inaccurate equals bad'. It depends on whether the inaccuracies are constructive lies or accidental mistakes.

(3)- ERA ENDS -- Coffee shops pioneered retail Wi-Fi, to lure customers. But now some owners are pulling the plug. They're finding that Wi-Fi freeloaders who camp out all day nursing a single cup of coffee are a drain on the bottom line.

(4)- RECOVERD ART – Robert Wittman recovered more than $225 million worth of stolen art and antiquities, including works by Rembrandt, Bruegel, Rodin, and Norman Rockwell, as well as Geronimo's headdress and...

(5)- NEARING EXTINCTION -- Five years ago, there were six and a half million little brown bats in the Northeastern United States. In 2020, there may be next to none.

(6)- WHO WAS HE REALLY? -- When he died from a spear wound in June 363 AD, while on campaign in Persia, the Emperor Julian was only thirty-two years old. His reign as Augustus had lasted just nineteen months.

(7)- SPECIFIC EGG INFO -- With 380 million eggs under recall, consumers are anxious about eating any egg or food product containing eggs. Here's more about the recall and safety, including which eggs are included in the voluntary recall?

(8)- EARLY PUBERTY -- A new study suggests that young girls are increasingly reaching puberty earlier — between 2004 and 2006 twice as many Caucasian girls showed breast maturity at age 7 as compared to 1997.

(9)- FINDOLOGY – Lose something? Then Michael Solomon - the author of How To Find Lost Objects and the world's only professor in a new, incredibly useful science he's dubbed 'findology' - is your man. Use his 12 findology tips.

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