WEB BOHEMIAN
(Thursday, August 16, 2012)
(1)- CONTROVERSY OVER REINCARNATION -- We start with a baby caterpillar that
lives a full life and then dies, dissolves. There's a pause. Then a new animal,
the moth, springs to life, from the same cells, reincarnated.
(2)- LOST Da VINCI -- Is this painting found hanging on the
wall of a Scottish farmhouse one of the master's works worth £100m? Experts
believe it is… Details are discussed in this article.
(3)- BRUCE -- The musical decline of Bruce Springsteen has been obvious
for decades. The sanctimony, the grandiosity, the utterly formulaic
monumentality; the witlessness; the tiresome recycling…
(4)- ROBERT HUGHES -- His prose was lithe, muscular and
fast as a bunch of fives. He was incapable of writing art world jargon, and
consequently was treated by its mandarins with fear and loathing. Much he
cared.
(5)-THE TARANTULA NEBULA – It’s huge beyond comprehension: it’s 650
light years cross, or nearly 4 quadrillion miles in size. This image, full of
complexity, and chaos represents only about 6% of the entire nebula.
(6)- IT’S WHAT WE DON’T KNOW -- The era of world struggle between the
great secular ideological -isms that began with the French Revolution and
lasted through the Cold War is passing on to a religious stage.
(7)- BERNARD VON NOTHAUS – He ran the most successful alternative
currency in the country. Then the FBI raided his strip mall headquarters,
arrested him, and seized eight tons of gold and silver backing the notes.
(8)- RETARDED OR NOT? -- Texas is scheduled to execute a man
supporters claim is mentally retarded -- which would violate federal law. But
others say it's just more anti-death penalty propaganda.
(9)- MEDIA -- Berkeley physicist Richard Muller was all over the media
last week talking about his “total turnaround” from global-warming skeptic to
adherent of the longstanding scientific consensus that the planet is heating
up. The question is: Did he deserve the attention?
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