Wednesday, September 1, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, September 1, 2010)
(1)- GIANT RATS – Brits report how their homes are being invaded by giant rats - including a 30-inch-long monster that was shot dead. The rodents are twice the normal size and appeared in homes in Bradford, West Yorks.

(2)- CURVEBALLOLOGY -- When you hit a curveball with a certain bat speed, the batted speed of the curveball is lower than the batted speed of a fastball, because a ball that is coming in faster will bounce more rapidly off the bat.

(3)- DEMENTIA REPORT -- Psychological stress in middle age could lead to the development of dementia later in life, especially Alzheimer's disease, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

(4)- UNENDING EXPANSION -- The universe will continue to expand forever, Nasa scientists concluded in a new study that sheds light on one of the greatest astronomical puzzles, “dark energy.”

(5)- HALLOWED GROUND?? -- A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the “Ground Zero Mosque”: The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York.

(6)- OH MY GOD, IT’S GETTING SMALLER! -- The Moon is shrinking! Well, a little: new results from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that over recent geological time, the Moon has shrunk by approximately 100 meters in diameter!

(7)- EXPLANATIONS -- Did Germany have rapid 19th century industrial expansion due to an absence of copyright law? It’s argued here that the massive proliferation of books, thus knowledge, laid the country's industrial might foundation.

(8)- GRAPHIC NOVEL -- Lewis Hyde's seminal work The Gift examined the intersection of creativity, economics, and culture in order to construct an argument for the essentialness of art in contemporary society.

(9)- NOTABLE DEATH -- Bill Millin, a Scottish bagpiper who played highland tunes as his fellow commandos landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day and lived to see his bravado immortalized in the 1962 film “The Longest Day,” died recently.

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