Thursday, August 19, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, August 19, 2010)
(1)- KNOW THE LAW -- At the federal level alone there are now more than 4,500 separate crimes, and that's not counting the massive regulatory code, violations of which also can sometimes be punished with criminal charges.

(2)- MOTHERHOOD – Demaris Masham deserves “a niche in the history of English philosophy.” She is known to only a handful of scholars. And yet her theory of motherhood provides us with a rich insight into early modern political thought.

(3)- IDEA FIGHT -- The Battle of Ideas is held annually by the Institute of Ideas, an organization that from the outside looks like a standard right-wing public policy think tank but which holds refugees from the Revolutionary Communist Party.

(4)- IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR TELLS -- Binge-shoppers and serial daters might perpetually be living at the whim of their latest impulse, and now research is getting to the biological basis of their seemingly random behavior.

(5)- WORLD WAR II UFO SECRET -- Britain released secret "UFO files"recently, including a letter saying that Winston Churchill had ordered a 50-year cover-up of a wartime encounter between an unidentified flying object and military pilot.

(6)- DON’T WASH THE CHICK -- Julia Child and other cookbooks say wash raw chicken before cooking, but health agencies are now warning against it. Cooking kills the bacteria; washing raw chicken just spreads it around the kitchen.

(7)- SAVE THIS SALAMANDER -- The hellbender salamander -- AKA the snot otter -- is one of America's giant salamander species. Most hellbender populations have rapidly declined as very little reproduction has occurred in recent decades.

(8)- LIFE-LIKE ANDROIDS -- Hanson Robotics is one of the world's foremost creators of life-like androids. This gallery reveals how their robots are built and also where they're built. Its skin is made of a spongy elastic plymer.

(9)- IRAQ RESTORATION -- Saddam Hussein drained the wetlands of southern Iraq as a punishment to the region's Marsh Arabs who had backed an uprising. Two decades later, one courageous US Iraqi is leading efforts to restore the marshes.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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