Thursday, September 2, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, September 2, 2010)
(1)- SNEAKY CHICKS -- Research finds chickens speak their own language and act Machiavellian. Macquarie University study results portray chickens as social and intelligent creatures adjusting what they say according to who's listening.

(2)- RAISED SALMON -- With a global population pressing against food supplies and vast areas of the ocean swept clean of fish, tiny AquaBounty Technologies Inc. says it can raise genetically engineered salmon to reach market weight in half the time.

(3)- WASP REPORT – Researchers find wasps with more black spots tend to be more aggressive and ferocious. The remarkable connection was discovered as part of into an investigation into why some wasps have such patterned faces.

(4)- FASCINATING PHOTOS – Here is an extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire for Tsar Nicholas II.

(5)- AFTER STANLEY KUBRICK -- In the decade since Stanley Kubrick’s death, his widow has been beset by tragedy. She talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology – and why her uncle made films for Goebbels.

(6)- THOSE GREEK STATUES -- Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that's required to see them as they were.

(7)- SECRETS DISCLOSED -- Management consultancy has always been shrouded in priestly secrecy. Recently, there has been a string of memoirs by highly successful former management consultants, finally pulling back the flow-charts.

(8)- GRAMMAR MYTHS -- English is a force of nature, one that endures and flourishes despite our best attempts to ruin it. And the real principles of English grammar weren’t invented by despots but actually make sense!

(9)- WHO WROTE WHAT? -- Before stenography and when typing provided an entry into the workplace for thousands of women, handwritten transcription was an intimate exchange and was often unpaid work done by an author’s female family members.

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