WEB BOHEMIAN
(Tuesday, August 21, 2012)
(1)- DIAGNOSING MENTAL ILLNESS – There’s a reliance on symptoms, and on the
simplistic approach of counting symptoms to make a diagnosis, creating a bogus
confidence in psychiatric science.
(2)- SEX AND PUNISHMENT – There’s a new book examining ways in which
legal systems have attempted to regulate sexual activity over millennia, from
the 'slow impalement of unfaithful wives' in Mesopotamia to…
(3)- IS PROGRESS LINEAR? -- With discovery of the Higgs boson, t3he
last gap in the "Standard Model" of physics has been filled. The head
of the CERN laboraties, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, talks about the future of physics.
(4)- AUTHORS BY GENDER -- If the results of the NPR poll are a
reflection of the reading populace, the young adult world is a place of
relative harmony compared to the battle of the sexes being waged in adult
fiction.
(5)- SON OF SAM TALKS -- From his jail cell 35 years to the day
his reign of terror ended, David Berkowitz says society needs to take the
'glory out of guns.' He shot 13 people in cold blood, killing six.
(6)- COMIC BOOK TRIVIA – Seeking to improve on Batman’s utility
belt, the Clown Prince of Crime unveiled his evil utility belt in 1952. The
Joker mostly used gadgets that would make Adam West queasy with disbelief.
(7)- PUTTING LIFE ON MARS -- With NASA’s Curiosity Rover safely on
Mars and ready to search for signs of life, back on Earth attempts are underway
to engineer bacteria that could thrive on the Red planet.
(8)- WHATZA KUDU? -- The newest addition to the Houseton Zoo
is a kudu. It joins five other (deer-like creatures) that live near the three
rhinos in The African Forest area.
(9)- CONTROL FROM THE GRAVE – Can you force a grandchild to take a drug
test in order to receive an inheritance? Make sure your wife's future husbands
can't run through money you worked hard to earn? Answers here:
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