Monday, July 30, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, July 30, 2012)

(1)- COLORADO MADNESS -- No one expects this massacre to lead to national gun law reform. “No guns,” Batman says to Catwoman, in “The Dark Knight Rises.” That’s more than will likely be said on the floor of Congress.

(2)- OLD POLYMATHS NEVER DIE -- They just keep on publishing. The unstoppable legacies of Isaiah Berlin and Hugh Trevor-Roper are explored. In death both men have been more prolific than when they were alive.

(3)- WEST/EAST -- Debates about the rise of the modern west (and corresponding decline of the east) remain a fertile source of historical polemic. The appeal is simplicity and wrenching drama of antagonism.

(4)- MARTIN AMIS -- the British novelist and firebrand talks about sex, porn, rioting, the difference between London and New York, and the dwindling fortunes of postmodernist literature and American empire.

(5)- PHILOSOPHER SLAVOJ ZIZEK -- There is a possibly apocryphal interpretation of Socrates that says he used to sit in the Athenian square debating with the general public about the subject of philosophy.

(6)- MATCHING ANIMAL VOCALS -- The phenomenon in which individuals from the same geographic area or social group share vocal characteristics is not unique to humans. Vocal learning animals also such characteristics.

(7)- GROSS STUFF IN FOOD --  For instance the chicken you consume now likely contains feed additives including banned antibiotics, antidepressants, allergy medications, arsenic, and much worse…

(8)- AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS -- These (1896) games differed from other athletic meetings in one most important feature—they did not stand or fall with the excellence of their athletics.

(9)- A WILD WEEK IN LAGOS -- Lagos, Nigeria, is a city of 18 million people where the electricity barely works, the traffic doesn't move, and there's a corrupt cop on every corner. Yet somehow…

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