Thursday, July 26, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, July 26, 2012)

(1)- BACK THEN -- Here is rare footage of the great Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo visiting exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and, Natalia Sedova, in Coyocoán, Mexico, in 1938.

(2)- ABOUT THE TEXAS WAR ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD -- What will happen to Texas women—and their fathers, brothers, sons, and husbands—remains very much unclear. Here’s a Texas Monthly report.

(3)- THE TRADE IN HUMAN BODY PARTS --  There’s a growing industry of companies that make profits by turning mortal remains into everything from dental implants to bladder slings to wrinkle cures.

(4)- SILICONE VALLEY BILLIONAIRE PETER THIEL -- When he questions the Internet’s significance, it’s not out of an indifference to technology. But he worries America has lost its belief in the future.

(5)- FIRST -- Researchers create the world's first complete computer model of an organism, using data from science papers to account for every molecular interaction in the world's smallest free-living bacterium.

(6)- A NEW TREATMENT FOR VOICES? -- From the perspective of modern psychiatry, this treatment is radical, even dangerous. But it is being taken seriously by an increasing number of patients and psychiatrists.

(7)- WHY WAS HE SO ADMIRED? -- Unless you happen to be a surgeon or a medical historian, you are unlikely to have heard of him. He lived from 1768 to 1841. His name was Astley Paston Cooper.

(8)- MODERN ARCHITECTURE’S DARK SIDE – Did the full potential of 20th century architecture, engineering, and design through technologies perfected during the two world wars to slaughter vast armies?

(9)- ART OVER BIOLOGY -- The notion that the human instinct to make and appreciate art can be explained by evolution seems true, even a truism. But the concept is complicated.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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