Monday, Sept. 24, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, Sept. 24, 2012)

(1)- THE INSIDE STORY OF THE NEW JESUS WIFE FIND -- According to a top religion scholar, this 1,600-year-old text fragment suggests that some early Christians believed Jesus was married—possibly to Mary Magdalene.

(2)- COLLINS ONLINE ENGLISH DICTIONARY -- It's become the “frenemy” of tradition-lovers after additions of words crowdsourced from the public, possibly the equivalent of “mummy porn” slipping in to Shakespeare.

(3)- WAR OF WORDS -- The Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published… “If [the dictionary] is not intensively researched, edited, proofed and rendered as ‘true’ as possible, why bother to consult it?”

(4)- THE RISE OF POPULAR NEURONONSENSE -- The “neuroscience” shelves in bookshops are groaning. But are the works of authors such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer just self-help books dressed up in a lab coat?

(5)-THE TYRANNY OF ALGORITHMS -- Do we want a world where a software program picks the next pop-music star and legal systems run on opaque pieces of code?. How desirable is all automation?

(6)- CAUSES AND CURES -- In the 1990s, scientists declared that schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses were pure brain disorders that would eventually yield to drugs. Now come other views…

(7)- COMIC CRITICS -- Now that comics have infiltrated the mainstream book trade in the form of graphic novels, memoirs, and trade collections, many critics are faced with the task of reviewing the damn things.

(8)- ART FORGERY 101 -- I wanted to be a painter. Instead, for more than thirty years, I made my living as an art forger. Forgery went from being something to fall back on to a full-time career.

(9)- BLAME FAME -- Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend lifts lid on beat novelist's rise and fall. Joyce Johnson's new book reveals details of their relationship and how fame blighted On the Road author.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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