Thursday, August 2, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, August 2, 2012)

(1)- WHO WUDDA THUNK IT -- An international team of researchers examined popularity and its behavioral correlates noting: “it must serve a functional purpose… invariably related to mating and reproduction.”

(2)- ALEPPO CODEX – It’s the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. The story of how it arrived in Jerusalem, is a tale of ancient fears and modern prejudices, one touching Israel’s rawest nerves.

(3)- MORAL ENHANCEMENT -- Rapid advances of science and technology have radically altered circumstances over just a few centuries. The pace of scientific change is exponential. But has our moral psychology kept up?

(4)- PRINCIPLED PRAGMATIST – David Ben-Gurion’s politic al philosophy was surprisingly pragmatic for someone so principled. His capacity for compromise literally put Israel on the map.

(5)- FIFTY SHADES OF GREEN -- One of the more innovative urban architectural trends this century has been the planting of vertical gardens on building walls. Now a study confirms their real value.

(6)- KEEP IT CLEAN -- If you swear at work, you may be sabotaging your career. So says a new survey from Career Builder that found 57 percent of employers would be less likely to promote a cusser at the office.

(7)- WAR CRIMINAL – Dignified, humble, shy, and sincere, he was a faculty member routinely dressed in suit and tie; a familiar figure in the library and on the campus paths, almost disappointingly low-key and dull.

(8)- CHARLES DICKENS -- Like Honoré de Balzac and Jack London, fellow obsessives and best-selling writers, he was a man of outsized energy, appetite, ambition who worked furiously fast to give himself free time.

(9)- WALTER -- The oldest friend and unofficial literary executor of German writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin, wrote to Benjamin’s ex-wife in London: “We are almost the last who knew him when he was young.”

POLITICAL CARTOON

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