Wednesday, September 8, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, September 8, 2010)
(1)- GRASS CUTTING -- Cutting grass is transformative. Having finished, one can see the lawn is manifestly different, manifestly better, improved, prettier. It is applied art; It is making ruly, grooming the ragged, shearing the shaggy.

(2)- WWII AIR ART -- Daniel Swift's eclectic account of World War II in the air and the poetry it inspired, Jarrell was moved by the fetal image of a machine gunner hunched in the belly of a B-17.

(3)- FASCINATING – This website contains some of the earliest color kodachrome film ever processed. Specifically, it was produced as a folm test in 1922.

(4)- WAY TO GO -- Music lovers can now be immortalized when they die by having their ashes baked into a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favorite tunes or their last will and testament to leave behind for loved ones.

(5)- BLACK RICE -- Black rice - revered in ancient China but overlooked in the West - could be the greatest 'superfoods'. The cereal is low in sugar but packed with healthy fibre and plant compounds that combat heart disease and cancer.

(6)- EXPLAINING CANNIBALISM -- The world's first known cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs. The cannibals belonged to the species Homo antecessor, related to both Neanderthals and modern humans.

(7)- PIRACY PAYS -- Somali fishermen have made a career switch to piracy and with success are no longer content just to use small craft operating from the coast, but now employ large mother ships ranging far from home.

(8)- FINALLY CORRECTING QUANTUM -- Physicists develop a new quantum error correction technique that can be directly embedded into quantum memories. Because the method is implemented "on-chip," it requires no external clocking or logic.

(9)- LANGUAGE -- Languages like Spanish, French, German and Russian not only oblige you to think about the sex of friends and neighbors, but they also assign a male or female gender to a whole range of inanimate objects quite at whim. Why?

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