Saturday/Sunday, July 28-29, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, July 28-29, 2012)

(1)- RUSSIA’S TOP CYBER SLEUTH --  A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul; a close associate of the Putin regime who is charged with safeguarding the data of millions of Americans.

(2)- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN PROFILE -- when “Help!” was on the charts, a moody yet uncannily charismatic shore rat guitar player named Bruce Springsteen was building a small reputation around central Jersey.

(3)- IMMIGRANT NUMBER ONE -- In 1892, she was the first foreigner to arrive at Ellis Island. By 1893, she was an American mystery. Here’s a report asking what became of Annie Moore?

(4)- DRONE STRIKE MIXED MESSAGES -- Administration officials offer mixed public defenses and rationales for the "targeted killing" program carried out predominantly with unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.

(5)- CONFIRMED – A centuries-long lost Leonardo da Vinci painting is authenticated by distinguished scholars in the United States and Europe and will be exhibited at London’s National Gallery.

(6)- BE SMART, BE HUMBLE -- To achieve significant and challenging knowledge, you’ll need some virtues. One of those virtues is intellectual humility. What is it to be intellectually humble?

(7)- ARMCHAIR PSYCHIATRIST -- Here we go again. A gunman fires on an unsuspecting crowd and the American media leap to conclusions about the shooter’s state of mind. ABC news led the pack with nonsense.

(8)- BATS AND FLIES – Noisy sex means death for flies if bats are listening. Here’s a report from a German cowshed where bats eavesdrop on mating flies, homing in on their distinctive sexual buzzes.

(9)- MS MAGAZINE WRITES -- New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she doesn’t consider herself a feminist. What she probably fails to recognize is that we would not be referring to her as “Yahoo’s new CEO” right now if it weren’t for feminism.

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