Tuesday, August 2, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, August 2, 2011)
(1)- RICHARD FEYNMAN -- Quantum Man shows us the side of Feynman’s personality that was least visible to most of his admirers, the silent and persistent calculator working intensely through long days and nights to figure out how nature works.

(2)- REASON FOR CONCERN -- North Korea and Iran are jointlyworking on weapons programmes designed to build a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a leading British security think tank has said.

(3)- SLUGS PREFER BUD -- Found a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser for $2.99. Perfect. Slugs love it. I caught twice as many slugs with Bud as with either Corona or Molson. Watched a slug make its way past the seedlings toward a pan of Bud beer.

(4)- ZODIAK KILLER CODE CRACKED -- The 41-year-old "340" cipher identifying the legendary Zodiak serial killer who terrorized California's the Bay Area, including Napa, Solano, and Vallejo counties in 1968 and 1969 has purporteely been solved.

(5)- DEBT DATA -- The government still owes $55,757 from its first bond issue in 1790, which was used to pay off the states' Revolutionary War debt. Congress first established a debt limit as part of the World War I Second Liberty Bond Act.

(6)- AN EXPLANATION – Some 200 million years ago, when Earth had only one mega-continent called Pangaea, fifty percent of life in the oceans died abruptly. What happened? Rapid climate change; massive carbon release into the atmosphere did it.

(7)- NOT SO STRICT CALVIN -- The prevailing view of Calvin as a rigid, authoritarian figure should possibly be adjusted. Although Calvin in his magnum opus Institutes formulates theses in a strict and decisive manner, he contradicts himself...

(8)- THE REAL MEASURE -- Nepal's government has ordered a new measurement of Mount Everest to determine exactly how high the world's highest mountain is. Nepal has continued to recognize the decades-old measurement of 29,028 feet, but ....

(9)- NO MODEL SHE -- Kate Winslet may not be a size zero, but that won't stop her from forging a successful modelling career. The actress showed off her curves as the new face of U.S knitwear label St. John for their 2011 autumn campaign.

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