Monday, June 13, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, June 13, 2011)
(1)- THE SHAQ – An earlier written article in the New Yorker: Inside the big world of Shaquille O’Neal.

(2)- NANOMOMATERIAL -- There’s a new material which changes its strength, virtually at the touch of a button; all done through changes in its electron structure. Thus hard and brittle matter, for example, can become soft and malleable.

(3)- HORRIBILUS – There’s a new tobacco product being sold in Kansas, provoking health officials to warn that tiny "smokeless tobacco sticks" could pose a danger to children. The sticks, sold in matchbook-like packs.

(4)- MUTANT LOBSTER REPORT -- A Canadian fisherman hauls an extremely rare blue lobster out of the waters off Prince Edward Island. Only about one in four million lobsters is blue. The color is caused by a genetic mutation.

(5)- E.COLI AND COPPER -- As the World Health Organisation suggests the E. coli outbreak in Germany is a strain never before seen in an outbreak. New research indicates a role for copper in preventing the spread of such infections.

(6)- THAILAND’S TATOO BAN – Thailand's Culture Ministry bans tourists from getting religious tattoos after noticing an alarmingly high number of foreigners sporting deities that were inked in parlors in Bangkok, Phuket and Chiang Mai.

(7)- BIG DEAL -- Neuroscientist David Eagleman has written a short-story collection, designed an iPad app, performed with Brian Eno, inspired an opera, won a Guggenheim, and jumped off a 150-foot ledge… Can he do more?

(8)- OH DEAR! -- A British man with a long history of criminal violence became a serial killer while working on a Ph.D. thesis, the subject of his thesis being the methods of homicide used in the city during the nineteenth century.

(9)- NEW YORKER TRIVA -- Legendary New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn told authors about the use of vulgarity: “It's up to you, but would you rather be remembered for your story or the first use of that word in this magazine?

POLITICAL CARTOON

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