Tuesday, September 7, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, September 7, 2010)
(1)- SOLAR FLARES LINKED -- When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could rewrite some assumptions of physics.

(2)- CONVERGENCE -- Van Gogh's marvelous Café Terrace at Night, painted on site en plein air and en plein nuit just off the Place du Forum in Arles in September 1888, a favorite on college dorm walls everywhere, a haunting convergence.

(3)- MELTING MOMENTS -- A large parcel of ice broke off a massive ice shelf on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, marking the third known case of Arctic ice loss this summer. The Bermuda-sized chunk of ice broke away Aug. 18.

(4)- SIX AWESOME UNUSUAL DIETIES – Here is a website detailing and specifying six deities that everyone might wish they had in their own religions. They include Ninkasi, goddess and personal brewer of the gods of Sumerians.

(5)- WHITHER ANIME? -- As the sad passing of Perfect Blue director Satoshi Kon is announced and the LA Times reports on the decline of anime. What’s next for the Japanese animation industry?

(6)- WHEAT’S GENETIC CODE -- New and improved varieties of wheat that will help to feed the world are expected after the staple food’s genetic code isread for the first time. It means hardier and higher-yielding wheat.

(7)- SEEN FROM TALIBAN VIEW – Watch this extremely rare footage of the war in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province — from the Taliban’s perspective. The video comes from a Norwegian documentary journalist who embedded with a Taliban commander.

(8)- BLACKBERRY THUMB – A Philadelphia area woman had "Blackberry thumb" surgery after she spent 12 hours a day texting clients. The texting put so much pressure on her hands that the tendons in her thumb became inflamed and had to be removed.

(9)- OLDE ROMAN LETTERS FROM BRITAIN – They miss Mediterranean food and drink: Massic wine, garlic, fish, semolina, lentils, olives and olive oil. Instead they have pork fat, cereal, spices, roe-deer and venison, all washed down with beer.

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