Friday, October 5, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, October 5, 2012)

(1)- CRUTCH WORDS -- Here's a handy compendium of additional crutch words, those verbal (and sometimes written) pauses that we just can't seem to help using. No adverb is safe, as one person informed me. Right?

(2)- SAME OLD, SAME OLD -- Four years after the crisis began, another election is upon us. What have we learned? Where are we now? What are the prospects for meaningful reform of the financial system? Sad news…

(3)- OTHER POLLOCK STUFF -- Carvings, castings, and other sculptural Jackson Pollock objects turn up in New York galleries—raising intriguing questions about how they relate to his paintings, and…

(4)- ITALIANS & GERMANS -- Italians hate Germany with a passion, especially in the middle of the Eurozone crisis. But for centuries, the two cultures have been deeply interwined.

(5)- VERY LONG EXPERIMENT -- In 1988, Michigan State evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski launched the longest running experiment on natural selection, rearing over 55,000 generations of bacteria.

(6)- ARCTIC ICE MELT (blessings?) -- The Arctic is stocked with minerals that were hitherto largely inaccessible, including 30% of undiscovered reserves of natural gas and 13% of undiscovered oil reserves.

(7)- ESPIONAGE -- This author begins stating that the Chinese downloaded “up to twenty terabytes of information from the Defense Department—equal to about 20 percent of all the data in the Library of Congress.

(8)- CAT LOOK -- Scientists find the gene that sets the common tabby cat pattern – stripes or blotches. Cats with narrow stripes, the so-called “mackerel” pattern, have a working copy of the gene.

(9)- PORTABLE NAP PILLOW -- Create your own pillow Elephant Man with the Ostrich Pillow. This concept design enters the real world and begins production once its design studio raises the $70,000 it needs.

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