Saturday/Sunday, September 11-12, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, September 11-12, 2010)
(1)- PHILOSOPHER JOE MARKS RETHINKS – A New Amoral Manifesto: “In a word, this philosopher has long been laboring under an unexamined assumption, namely, that there is such a thing as right and wrong. I now believe there isn’t.”

(2)- THE SOLUTION -- Work by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) describes thorium as a cheap, clean and safe alternative to uranium in reactors and may be the magic bullet we hope for.

(3)- TAKE A BREAK -- Recent research suggests that mind-wandering may be important and that knowledge of how it works might help treat such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and schizophrenia.

(4)- FIRST PRINT -- “The Book in the Renaissance,” is the story of the birth of print. Gutenberg was bent on making a grand statement, an edition of Scripture that would cost half as much as a house and would live through the ages. But...

(5)- BRITAIN'S WILLIAM HAGUE -- He wants to move more generally from an obsession with the “blocs”—the United States, Europe and the Middle East—to forge fresh links with such emerging powerhouses as India, China and Brazil.

(6)- TONALITY FLUX – At the end of the 19th century, and in the wake of Wagner's achievement in Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, the musical language which had been common property of Western composers since the Renaissance, underwent a crisis.

(7)- FIDEL SAYS -- Fidel Castro said Cuba's economic model no longer works, a U.S.-based journalist reports following recent interviews with the former president. He said "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."

(8)- BRITS AND FRENCH WARSHIP CO-OP -- Britain and France could share their aircraft carrier capability in a dramatic co-operation pact designed to maintain military power while cutting costs, according to speculation in The Times.

(9)- IMMERSIVE RETAIL -- The immersive mise en scène of a Hollister flagship store, redolent of California beach towns that don’t exist, “lazy, hygienic sexuality,” and weed. Malls function secondarily as retail centers and primarily as promenades.

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