Thursday, June 9, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, June 9, 2011)
(1)- EXAMINING MUSIC -- The starting point of "The Power of Music" is biological, encompassing studies of the effect of tunes on the pulse and breathing rate, on muscular tension, on stress hormones such as cortisol, or on immune molecules...

(2)- ARAB WHAT? -- The truth is that the Arab Spring is something of a smokescreen for what is taking place in the world as a whole. Around the globe, it is democratic meltdowns, not democratic revolutions, that are now the norm.

(3)- SERIAL KILLER IN COMMON -- Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a beach. Now the families of the victims have formed a kind of sisterhood. They ask: Who murdered my daughter? Who was my sister—really?

(4)- BASTA BUNGA, BUNGA -- Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country. Have Italians had enough?

(5)- PRECISION WAR -- In an effort to cut costs and avoid civilian casualties, manufacturers are developing small 'smart bombs,' drones that resemble model planes and microscopic crystals to tag enemy targets.

(6)- OXI – It’s twice as powerful as crack cocaine at just a fraction of the price. A highly addictive hallucinogenic has exploded on to South America's drug scene, with devastating consequences.

(7)- WHITHER FILM? – At the turn of the 21st century, American shutterbugs were yearly bought nearly a billion rolls of film. Now they buy a mere 20 million, plus 31 million single-use cameras vacationers use at the beach.

(8)- ENIGMA -- These were among the first ciphers, boxes capable of coding and decoding staggeringly complex communications. An electrical engineer invented the machines in 1918, believing the banking industry would find them useful.

(9)- WOOLY MAMOUTHS TRADED UP -- Mammoth evolutionary puzzle solved. The woollies weren't picky, happy to interbreed. A study sheds new light on the complex evolutionary history of the woolly mammoth. It mated with a larger species.

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