Wednesday, August 22, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, August 22, 2012)

(1)- EARTHWORM ROBOT -- MIT, Harvard and Korean researchers engineer a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm.

(2)- BEES – Alaskan beekeepers breed a honeybee to better withstand a too-long Alaska winter -- to save them the yearly cost of importing bees spare them having to euthanize their colonies at the end of the season.

(3)- NEWS FROM FUJIAN CHINA -- Two women meat plant workers get into a food fight over who’s better looking and has fairer skin and the argument goes so out of control that their colleagues had to call the police.

(4)- BEER NEWS -- Beer snobs and craft brewers rediscover beer cans, defying the stereotype quality beer comes only in bottles, or that cans are just for mass market stuff. But there’s a cost for microbreweries.

(5)- CHINESE CRAB INVADES CONNECTICUT -- Connecticut's first documented specimen of a highly invasive crab species native to eastern Asia (a Chinese mitten crab) is found in Greenwich's Mianus Pond fishway.

(6)- REST EASY (maybe) -- The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda appears to be under control, says the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres. But if a pocket of the virus was missed it may again erupt.

(7)- ACTUAL CREEPY ADVERTISEMENTS -- All of these ads are unaltered. At issue is  the entire insane thought process that went into creating them (probably lost to history). Maybe they made perfect sense at the time?

(8)- BURMA – Here’s some VQR original reporting on and from Burma. Since 1996, Burma has asked foreigners to stay away, but independent travel is encouraged following release of political leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

(9)- NOW YOU KNOW -- Deconstruction by definition is an exercise of the intellect's predilection to disprove and deny aesthetic experience. Deconstruction is in love with denying this "nothing," but is seemingly…

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