Saturday/Sunday, August 25-26, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, August 25-26, 2012)

(1)- ANATOMY OF DIVORCE -- An accomplished author's singularly eloquent account of the excruciating pain of divorce — from which he surfaced as if from death by drowning — with insights toward human caring.

(2)- DÉJÀ VU -- How is it we can be fooled by memories that are simply wrong? The answer lies not necessarily in the content of our memories but in the experience of reassembling and recalling them.

(3)- ARE THEY/WE READY? -- Despite centuries of promise, flying cars remain largely confined to films and fiction. But a host of new projects hope to finally let them fly.

(4)- BIG BANG INFO -- When people talk about evidence for the Big Bang, they're most likely to point to the Cosmic Microwave Background. But This is how helium can show that the universe had a definite beginning.

(5)- FAKE SCIENCE (11) SNIPPETS – Here’s Fake Science 101, a 272-page textbook for the fake-fact-loving science nerd in all of us. It’s packed with fantastically colorful and exceptionally fake pictures and diagrams.

(6)- STROMHOLM -- This year is the year of rediscovering Strömholm, with gallery shows in London, Rome, and Berlin and a major retrospective of his work planned at the Fotografiska in his native Stockholm.

(7)- UNIVERSE IN 3D -- Ever wished you could zoom through a hyper-realistic map of the universe at many times the speed of light? Now you can. Here’s the newly released largest-ever 3D map of the universe.

(8)- OSCAR WILDE -- A hundred and twenty five years ago, Oscar Wilde edited a fashion magazine, his first and only office job. We have yet to learn from the experience.

(9)- ROLAND BARTHES – A 1974 report over the span of three weeks, wherein he tries to decipher the late stages of China’s Cultural Revolution for Europe’s intelligentsia bickering over its fractured Marxist patrimony.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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