Wednesday, August 3, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, August 3, 2011)
(1)- SOCIOLOGY AND WEIGHT -- A new study published suggests cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns associated with personality traits likely contribute to unhealthy weight and difficulties with weight management.

(2)- LUCIAN FREUD DEAD AT 88 -- Lucian Freud, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest, most influential and yet most controversial British painters of his era, has died at his London home. He was a grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

(3)- GROWING UP JONG -- Erica Jong: Sex and motherhood. Feminist author Erica Jong and her daughter Molly have very different ideas about parenting and sex – one famously bohemian, the other conservative. Kira Cochrane meets them.

(4)- CATCH 22'S GENESIS -- The tragicomic 1961 novel that sprang from Joseph Heller’s experience as a W.W. II bombardier mystified and offended many of the publishing professionals who saw it first. Here is how it was eventually published.

(5)- DISLIKING COMMUNISM -- for David Stove it was the political expression of a fundamental human weakness of ideals of the 18th-century Enlightenment. At the heart of that weakness, says Stove, is a dream of universal benevolence.

(6)- EXPLAINING OPRAH -- And just how did Oprah become the purveyor of revelation for 48 million U.S. viewers? In Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, Kathryn Lofton writes that the Oprah show was born at a ripe moment in American history.

(7)- McLUHAN'S MIND -- There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV. A hot medium is one that extends one single sense...

(8)- PHOTO -- We've all seen five-million-pound space shuttles launch from Florida. But not until the very last space shuttle flight did we ever get to see what the giant craft's return to the atmosphere looks like -- from space. See this:

(9)- DAMNED WINDFARMS -- Demand for clean energy has led to a wind turbine building (http://www.capewind.org/article23.htm) boom. But many living in their shadow decry the electricity generating projects as pesky eyesores.

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