WEB BOHEMIAN
(Thursday, August 30, 2012)
(1)- SPIDER FIND -- scientists find a new taxonomic family of spiders in the
caves of Oregon. This new spider family, found in southern Oregon, is only the
third new family of spider to be discovered since 1990.
(2)- UPDATING THE AMELIA HUNT -- Researchers investigating the
disappearance of Amelia Earhart 75 years ago have found an "interesting
debris field" that may include the landing gear of her aircraft.
(3)- YOU ARE WHAT YOU STORE -- Traditional platter-based hard drives and
solid state flash drives dominate the storage landscape today, but soon you'll
be storing massive amounts of data within your very own DNA.
(4)- TOM STOPPARD -- One of the greatest living playwrights is
also a sought-after screenwriter and a conservative modernist. As his
adaptations of "Anna Karenina" and "Parade's End" arrive…
(5)- SYMPATHETIC MAGIC – It taps into a symbolic ordering of the
world, where disparate objects and ideas can have unexpected correspondences
and new potentials. It reflects the order of our lives even as it seeks…
(6)- QUESTIONS -- The gaps in our knowledge make life uncomfortable for those
who are struggling to defend evolutionary theory against the dogma of
creationism. More questions are posed and answered here.
(7)- WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
-- His displacement in Argentina is one of the mythical tales of European
writers in exile, a rival and counterpart to Stefan Zweig’s suicidal dead end
in Brazil, or to the Germans who…
(8)- MACABRA MANIA -- Morbid curiosity has always been with us;
from Neanderthal funerary rites to medieval memento mori. But a recent spate of
high-profile collections has made death particularly trendy of late.
(9)- ELVIS LIT -- Even more phenomenal than the unquenchable hunger for Elvis
music, Elvis impersonators, and Elvis memorabilia (black velvet paintings,
ashtrays, etc.) is the outpouring of books about Elvis.
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