Tuesday, June 7, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, June 7, 2011)
(1)- PRIVACY & DATA -- we’re all leaving a trail of data behind us, generating zeros and ones in someone’s ledger every time we look something up online, make a phone call, go to the doctor, pay our taxes, or buy groceries. Whose data?

(2)- PRODIGY TO PARIAH: BOBBY FISCHER -- He played some of the most sublime chess ever seen. Then, as a new book and film illustrate, he disappeared from view. What made such a brilliant mind go into freefall?

(3)- READING SOCIAL CUES -- Understanding the actions of other people can be difficult for those with schizophrenia. Researchers discover impairments in a brain area involved in perception of social stimuli may be partly responsible.

(4)- COINCIDENCE -- Tiffany's extended Newt Gingrich a non-standard, no-interest credit line of up to $500,000, while the corporation lobbyed silver mining issues with the congressional committee where his wife worked as chief clerk.

(5)- LOOK WHAT WE’VE MADE -- The Large Hadron Collider recently made a matter known as quark-gluon plasma. It's a hundred thousand times hotter than the inside of the sun and denser than anything in the universe, except black holes.

(6)- THERE IS NO GOD – Results from a survey of 14,500 people who had come from religious background shows that once they abandoned their churches, more than half those surveyed said their sex lives improved.

(7)- GOODWILL EXEC SINS – A Goodwill boss is sentenced to 70 months in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the group. He used fake invoices and tricked Goodwill employees into sending checks to his fake businesses.

(8)- RIGHT WING RATINGS -- Rush Limbaugh's ratings have fallen sharply by 33 percent in recent months, according to a new report by Arbitron. And he's not the only one--Sean Hannity's ratings have also slipped by 28 percent.

(9)- TROUBLED MIND -- Bruce Ivins, who became a respected Army scientist and an authority on the laboratory use of anthrax, had a penchant for vendettas, especially against women.

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