WEB BOHEMIAN
(Thursday, October 4, 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, the
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)- IRAN’S OWN INTERNET -- the Iranian government has begun to lay
out technical plans to build it’s own, self-contained version of the Internet,
giving the country tighter control over the information.
(5)- WHAT MEMORY? -- It's possible to interrupt the formation
of memories during a crucial stage when they're being cemented in your brain by
proteins. It seems that memories associated with fears can be replaced.
(6)- THE FUTURE -- globalization, immigration, cultural diffusion and the ease
of modern travel will gradually homogenize the human population, averaging out
more and more people's traits. Brown skin will predominate.
(7)- OLDE WOOD -- A search for diamonds in Canada's far north turned up a rare
fossil (which also contains a sliver of amber) — a chunk of a redwood sealed in
volcanic rock more than 50 million years ago.
(8)- REALLY ANGRY -- Justice Antonin Scalia was “enraged” when
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. switched his vote and created the majority
needed to uphold the Obama administration’s health care law…
(9)- KIDS’ SONGS ORIGINS -- As nauseatingly wholesome as children's
songs may seem, sometimes there are corpses buried under those mountains of
spaghetti, and axe murderers behind those rainbows.
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