Saturday/Sunday, September 4-5, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, September 4-5, 2010)
(1)- NEW STUDY EXPLAINS EVERYTHING? -- Here is evidence for a telling correlation between men’s preferences for different cues of femininity in women; although men generally preferred feminized to masculinized versions of women’s faces and voices.

(2)- WHOSE NEWS? -- Newsworthiness once described a category of information that did not so much assert the universal relevance of some topics in respect to others, but rather answered to a restless, individualized demand for knowledge...

(3)- TIME PASSES -- A mere twenty years after the cold war, communism is now a properly historical phenomenon for authors. In fact, communism may now seem to us what the Roman Empire was to Edward Gibbon—finished off and far away.

(4)- BIOETHICS CRISIS -- Bioethics is irrelevant to those affected by technology. We must apply classical-liberal precepts about human nature and absolute power to crucial issues such as patient autonomy, physician responsibility, and dignity.

(5)- ALLERGIES – There’s a British woman suffering from almost everything she comes into contact with, even rain falling on her head. She’s reportedly the most allergic woman in Britain. It started ate age 8 and got worse.

(6)- NEW OIL -- A British oil firm (Cairn Energy) announces it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine and environmentally sensitive waters of the Arctic.

(7)- LEGAL DISPUTE -- A Las Vegas man has filed a $38 quadrillion complaint against an Alpine attorney. The dispute stems from an earlier $918 billion complaint involving possession of mining property in Southern Utah.

(8)- BAR-TAILED GODWIT -- How is it possible to fly 11,000 kilometers without a single break? The record holder for long distance flight outdoes all human-made aircraft. The bar-tailed godwit has very low energy consumption.

(9)- CAMEL’S MILK – Regulators clear the United Arab Emirates to be first major exporter of camel milk products to the EU. If on-site inspections and other EU tests pass muster, powdered camel milk will be on European shelves next year.

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