Tuesday, June 21, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, June 21, 2011)
(1)- THE REAL INDIANA JONES -- Almost from the day Raiders of the Lost Ark premiered 30 years ago on June 12, 1981, fans have speculated about who the real-life model for Indiana Jones had been. Read on…

(2)- EGYPT TOURISM? -- The tourism industry is hit hardest by the economic downturn that followed Egypt's January revolution. A report estimate Egytian tourism revenue will fall to $7.6 billion this year, down 35% from last year.

(3)- IT’S YOUR RIGHT -- The UN says the Internet is a key means by which individuals can exercise their right to freedom and expression. The view is inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings, and also defends whistleblowers.

(4)- RELIGIOUS/ECONOMIC DATA -- The economic differences among the country’s various religions are strikingly large, much larger than the differences among states and even larger than those among racial groups.

(5)- WHAT’S OUT THERE? -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they beam back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system.

(6)- SITTING KILLS -- Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.

(7)- THE WOLF WARS -- As the gray wolf comes off the Endangered Species list, new questions swirl about whether the animal can survive without federal protection – and its impact on cattle and other wildlife. Here’s the view from one ranch.

(8)- LAST REQUEST -- Before John Ross died, he asked his family and friends take his ashes and mix them with marijuana and have them rolled into a spliff to be smoked at his funeral. He had some other thoughts as well.

(9)- GOD QUESTION – How does Darwinism fit in with the fact that altruism lowers an individual's chances of passing its own genetic material on to the next generation, yet persists in organisms from slime moulds to humans.

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