Friday, June 10, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, June 10, 2011)
(1)- NANO-TECH RUSSIA -- Russia intends to move from a “minor league” player in global nanotechnology efforts into the “major league” with a total of $30 billion per year in annual sales in five years.

(2)- NON-MATING BIRD CALLS - By studying how a bird does or does not correctly perceive, process or respond to calls it uses to survive, scientists may learn more about where abnormal signal processing in humans originates, Sewall says.

(3)- NO SPANISH INHIBITION – Barcelona police will fine people up to $700 if they go out in public naked or semi-nude. The will be imposed on people who refuse to adhere to the generally acceptable minimum public dressing standards.

(4)- POOR HEF -- Journalists lately portray Hugh Hefner as an octogenarian whose libido requires chemical upgrades and whose mansion is stuffed with tattered mattresses and stained carpets. But he still has his admirers.

(5)- LARRY – He’s been lauded as a crusader for free speech. But he got rich by depicting women being raped in concentration camps and has been accused of molesting his daughter. Who is the real Larry Flynt?

(6)- THE FACES OF THOUGHT – It’s a unique study of what roughly 100 practitioners, mainly of the analytical school of professional philosophers, actually look like to the Pyke-eye. The physiognomy of thought is examined.

(7)- GO ROTC -- Helped by the recession and a sea change in student perceptions of the military, college campuse ROTC thrives these days. And some elite schools like Stanford and Harvard are welcoming ROTC back for the first time in decades.

(8)- MOSQUITO NEWS -- New research on mosquito bites reaffirms some widely-known ways to avoid being bitten and shines a light on a few new ones. The research says mosquitoes are more attracted to someone who is drinking beer.

(9)- PIG FAT & BULLETS -- Did a Navy SEAL kill Osama Bin Laden with a pork-coated bullet, denying him entrance to paradise? That's the highly unlikely claim from a website guaranteeing it’s gun lubricant has "13% USDA liquefied pig fat."

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