Thursday, September 9, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, September 9, 2010)
(1)- VIKING DISCOVERY -- For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. It was found. The extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.

(2)- EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM BEATS INTELLIGENT DESIGN -- How an intelligent design theorist was bested in a public math competition by a genetic algorithm—a computer simulation of evolution.

(3)- MAPS -- As scientists get used to the idea that Earth is in a new geological age, that the Holocene — the last geological age — has been replaced by Anthropocene, they’re figuring out how it got to be that way.

(4)- FOLLOWING THE KRILL -- Unusually large numbers of blue whales dining off the Southern California coast provide marine mammal enthusiasts a rare opportunity to see Earth's largest creatures lolling in the waves and spouting misty plumes.

(5)- WHO'D HAVE EVER THOUGHT? -- Experiments show that it may be possible to achieve control of magnetization by an external electric field in a material by altering the balance between competing physical processes.

(6)- AUCTION – A collection belonging to Andrew Haswell Green is being auctioned in Worcester. Among the documents and artifacts are handwritten correspondence of four presidents and a rare, printed copy of George Washington’s will.

(7)- BLOOD FEUD ENDS -- Many observers are baffled after men of gun-loving Chechnya, long Russia's most rebellious province end the region's most notorious feud without a fight.

(8)- JUDGE HIM YOURSELF -- Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation.

(9)- BETTER PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS POSSIBLE -- A series of studies published in recent years suggests that in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, better psychiatric diagnoses can be made.

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