Friday, June 3, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, June 3, 2011)
(1)- DIED AT 104 -- she became a subject of public fascination, a trending topic of searches on Google and Yahoo, pictured on the cover of the New York tabloids, with fan pages on Facebook, a biography on Wikipedia...last photographed in 1930.

(2)- VUVUZELA WARNING -- a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine research notes vuvuzelas at the 2010 World Cup, whose popularity just so happened to peak during the June/July flu season in South Africa — spread of infectious disease.

(3)- SPACE ARCHEOLOGY -- Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. Infra-red images which show up underground buildings also showed 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements.

(4)- BRAIN REBOOT -- Imagine waking up as an entirely different person with no recollection whatsoever of who you were one week ago, with a husband you couldn't recognize; two kids not really yours, even if biologically they were.

(5)- WHAT WORKS -- Women find happy men significantly less sexually attractive than those who swagger or brood. They are least attracted to smiling men, instead preferring those who looked proud and powerful or moody.

(6)- CAUSE & EFFECT – Microbiology researchers say Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that lives in the stomachs of about half the people in the world, may help trigger Parkinson’s disease.

(7)- NAZI DOGS -- The Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and attempted to build an army of fearsome 'speaking' dogs, extraordinary new research shows. Hitler hoped the clever creatures would learn to communicate.

(8)- BIAS REPORT - A new study says whites think discrimination against them is a bigger problem than anti-black bias. formulations of prejudice tend to emerge in lean economic times, fueling cultural or historical rivalries of all sorts.

(9)- HENRY KISSINGER ON CHINA -- Statesman Henry Kissinger at 88 and in a new book takes a cautious view of Beijing's reaction to the Arab Spring, and U.S. relations with the world's rising power.

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