Tuesday, August 24, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, August 24, 2010)
(1)- SOUND ALIKE -- People who interact with a person with a different accent subconsciously mimic their twang because they want to “empathise” with their conversation partner, psychologists claim.

(2)- CONSIDER -- A cure for old age may bring promise of an undefined lifespan, allowing us to do more than we thought possible. But living forever may require our lives to change so significantly that life might not be worth living.

(3)- THEATER & POLITICS – David Mamet portrays human life as a Hobbesian war of all against all, leaving it to the viewer to draw his own conclusions about the ultimate meaning of the struggles for dominance that he witnesses on stage.

(4)- BURMA -- On 2 May 2008 tropical cyclone Nargis struck Burma with such force that even today nobody knows how many people were killed, although the ruling military junta reported exactly how many chickens died. What really happened?

(5)- TRAVELING TO MESAPOTAMIA -- What’s with The Arabian Nights? How can we explain the lasting attraction of the mysteriously medieval East? The djinns? The camels? The metamorphoses? The alluring houris in dove-grey veils?

(6)- ENLIGHTENMENT -- The writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment were a motley crew of philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, physicians, and other intellectuals. They variously differed, but sought improved human condition.

(7)- THRIVER IN THE WILD -- A genetically modified crop is found thriving in the wild in the United States. Transgenic canola is growing freely in parts of North Dakota, researchers tell the Ecological Society of America conference.

(8)- TAKE A HIKE -- A former British army captain is the first to walk from the origin of the Amazon river to its mouth, after withstanding “50,000” mosquito bites, scorpion attacks and skin disease in his nearly 2-1/2 year odyssey.

(9)- SUN WAKES UP -- After a quiet near-decade, the Sun awakens in a big way, and this picture from August 1 shows the most dramatic eruption yet, including a solar flare, a "solar tsunami," shifting magnetism, shaken corona, and more.

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