WEB BOHEMIAN
(Friday, August 24, 2012)
(1)- THE PHYSICS OF DIVING -- How long does a dive from a 10 meter
platform last? Not a hard question. If we assume vertical acceleration of the
diver is constant, we can use the following kinematic equation:
(2)- REALLY USEFUL STUFF -- For Popular Mechanics' 110th anniversary,
We dived into the archives to find the 110 best, handiest, and most helpful
tips ever printed in the publication. It's more than a century of wisdom.
(3)- RELIGION: WHO CARES? -- Scholars in biology, anthropology, and
psychology (using the evolutionary theory) want to know if religion strengthens
societies, makes them successful, cooperative, kinder.
(4)- SINCERITY – In 1533, sincerity first began to be used to describe people,
it referred to faith. Now, it’s an artful pretense. Machiavelli manipulated it,
Montaigne prized it, the Romantics made a fetish of it.
(5)- TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS -- The problem with guidebooks to countries
like Cuba, Iran, and North Korea is not that they encourage travel to rogue
regimes, but that they consistently misinform tourists about such places.
(6)- WHAT IF? -- What decisions would we make if we deliberated carefully
about public policy? Stanford's James Fishkin talks of deliberative democracy,
parliamentary discontent, and the two-party system future.
(7)- PRIVATIZING
SPACE -- How will it work
economically? The cost of space travel is not a function of the distance but of
the force required to escape Earth’s gravity. Here’s a report by Le Monde
Diplomatique.
(8)- RISKY LOVE – A mutual passion for risk and adrenaline drew daredevils Rex
and Melissa Pemberton together. Now they have a marriage based on love, trust,
and acceptance their life partner could die at any moment.
(9)- PUSSY RIOT V PUTIN -- To call this a show trial understates its
grotesque aesthetic. This was no show trial. It was a sumptuous, tragicomic
show, in which three 20-something girls check-mated the regime.
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