Friday, October 19, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, October 19, 2012)

(1)- CONFIRMED -- A centuries-long lost Leonardo da Vinci painting has been authenticated by distinguished scholars in the United States and Europe and will be exhibited Nov. 9 at London’s National Gallery.

(2)- OPTIONALLY MANNED AIRCRAFT -- Purely manned or purely unmanned aircraft possess various inherent advantages and limitations. Here are good arguments about both forms of aircraft; autonomy and risk.

(3)- AN IGNOBLE PROFESSION -- The business of forging George Washington’s signature and correspondence to sell to unwitting buyers goes back 150 years. Archivists remain vigilent.

(4)- CAROLINA CHICK-A-DEE – It’s call has multiple notes arranged in diverse ways. Variation is extraordinary: The chick-a-dee call is one of the most complex signaling systems documented in nonhuman animal species.

(5)- CHINA AND WINDMILL TILTING -- The Chinese state’s grip on the economy has been tightening. Could foreign pressure persuade the new leadership to reverse course?

(6)- A STUDY -- Body image and body type preferences in St. Kitts, Caribbean: A cross- cultural comparison with U.S. samples regarding attitudes towards muscularity, body fat, and breast size.

(7)- FEMINIST GUIDE TO WATCHING HORROR MOVIES -- Recent horror movies focus on families and children, adolescent women and single women revealing an unsettling persistence of patriarchal norms.

(8)- THE TOCQUEVILLEAN MOVEMENT -- The great 19th-century observer of America’s democratic revolution {Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59)} has much to teach the tumultuous new century.

(9)- THE LIMITS OF THEOLOGY -- One prominent rationalist argument for the existence of God, the ontological argument, was first proposed around 1078, and modified by the Italian Benedictine monk, Anselm of Bec (1033-1109). Later the argument was ‘borrowed’ by Descartes.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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