Saturday/Sunday, October 6-7, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, October 6-7, 2012)

(1)- THE LIE INDUSTRY -- Political consulting is often thought of as an offshoot of the advertising industry, but actually the advertising industry began as a form of political consulting in the 1930s.

(2)- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN REPORTS -- Liberals and conservatives do not just see things differently. They are different—in their personalities and even their unconscious reactions to the world around them.

(3)- WORD CONTEST -- After one month and 288 words being filtered through, the best word ever in the English language has been chosen in humorous tournament-style brackets. To view the entire tournament, you can…

(4)- CHECKERS SPEECH (60 years later) -- The first-ever nationally televised address both saved and scarred young Richard Nixon, opening a new communications era and upending conventional political imagery.

(5)- UNDERWATER CROP CIRCLES -- This is an underwater structure built about 80 feet underwater off the coast of the southern Japanese island of Anami Oshima. The builder was a single ordinary pufferfish.

(6)- NATURAL CHARISMA -- Some people instantly make us feel important. Some people instantly make us feel special. Some people light up a room just by walking in. We can't always define it, but some people have it:

(7)- STARSHIP FUTURE -- The 100 Year Starship initiative—which began as a DARPA-funded contest to lay the foundations for a long-distance flight across the stars, shows what a starship will really look like.

(8)- IRAN DENIES -- I ran denies its hackers attacked American banks, the Fars news agency reports, following a Reuters report that three of the largest American lenders were repeatedly targeted over the past year.

(9)- AHA!! -- Events high in the upper atmosphere can cause massive shifts in deep ocean currents behavior, new research shows. There’s now a proven entire link between the stratosphere, the troposphere and the ocean.

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