WEB BOHEMIAN
(Friday, August 10, 2012)
(1)- WHALE OIL -- It was the intense
demand for this sperm whale oil during the 18th and 19th centuries that nearly
drove the whales into extinction. Only a modest technological innovation saved
the whales.
(2)- BABY NAMES -- Officials with a Web site based in Delaware said they were
surprised when Zebulon made their list of the 14 "hottest" baby names
of the year, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer reports.
(3)- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY – Researchers find intriguing differences in
the brains and mental processes of an extraordinary group of people who can
effortlessly recall every moment of their lives since about age 10.
(4)- LOTTERY WIN -- a handful of math and science wizards, including
Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates looking for an interesting
school project, work out winning at lottery. And they do.
(5)- OBSOLETE -- The fast, stealthy F-22 Raptor is “unquestionably” the best
air-to-air fighter in the arsenal of the world’s leading air force. But German
pilots figure out how to shoot it down in mock combat.
(6)- THE REVOLT AGAINST THE WEST -- An engaging account of how intellectuals
in Asia and the Middle East responded to European imperialism and how the
consequence was the remaking of Asia.
(7)- BEING LITERATE AND HUMANE -- What is the ethical power of literature?
Can it diminish acts of injuring, and, what aspects of literature deserve the
credit? All these questions are explored in a new book.
(8)- A LEGAL/CULTURAL STORY -- When U.S. customs law met abstract art in
the form of a bird, “shimmering and soaring toward the ceiling while the
lawyers debated whether it was an ‘original sculpture’ or something else.
(9)- OH VIRTUE! -- Could virtue become a habit — that is, a relatively
effortless, automatic tendency to do what is morally right, with a minimum of
inner struggle? There’s research…
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