Friday, September 10, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, September 10, 2010)
(1)- DUH, YOU THINK? -- Smoking marijuana modestly reduced pain and other symptoms of chronic neuropathic pain, results of a small randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed.

(2)- A CONTEST -- In a remote Serbian mountain village, chefs are cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship.

(3)- KILLER SQUIRREL -- The teeth are bared, the claws outstretched. Even his whiskers seem to bristle with animosity. If anyone still thinks grey squirrels are cuddly little critters, here's an image to prove them wrong.

(4)- BLAME THE CONSUMER -- No more sunny side up. No more eggs Benedict. No more almost-set scrambled eggs. After of one of the largest egg recalls on record, The egg industry resorts to the worst tactic of all: blaming the victim.

(5)- OPEN PASSAGES -- This year marks the third consecutive year--and the third time in recorded history--that both the Northwest Passage and Northeast Passage have melted free, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

(6)- MORE THAN ONE – At least two meteorite impacts wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, rather than a single strike. Previously, scientists had thought a single huge Gulf of Mexico impact crater doomed dinosaurs.

(7)- ISAAK ISIMOV HAD IT RIGHT -- Part of the pleasure of reading old science fiction is that with the special powers vested in you by historical hindsight, you can compare the playfully visionary forecasts with what actually took place.

(8)- LANGUAGE -- It takes a rather long view to show just what a contingent and transitory thing a language can be. Ruth Sanders, a professor of German Studies at Miami University in Ohio, takes just such a view in her new book.

(9)- CAMILLE’S FUTURE -- Vanishing of jobs will plague the rest of this decade. Meaningful employment is no longer guaranteed to dutiful Western world middle class young and college education will ill-prepare young people for life.

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