Saturday/Sunday, October 13-14, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, October 13-14, 2012)

(1)- SCARY DISCVERY -- Virus hunters describe how a team spanning a number of institutions finds a deadly virus unknown to exist until it killed three people within a few days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(2)- ERIC HOBSBAWM – Dead at 95, he had become arguably Britain's most respected historian of any kind, recognised if not endorsed on the right as well as the left; an historian with genuine world renown.

(3)- DIGITAL FABRICATION: IT’S COMING -- Digital fabrication will allow individuals to design and produce tangible objects on demand. Widespread tech access will challenge traditional models of business and education.

(4)- COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO -- General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas - father of the novelist, French Revolutionary hero, Napoleonic warrior, and a slave-born mulatto of amazing physical strength and greatness of heart…

(5)- ECONOMIC GROWTH AIN’T EVERYTHING -- The case against making increased GDP per capita the overriding policy objective is that it doesn’t deliver the increased happiness or welfare if promises.

(6)- MORE OF MONA – After 35 years of research, numerous tests and mathematical comparisons, a Swiss foundation unveils the Isleworth Mona Lisa, an alleged earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.

(7)- NEEDED SPORTS/POLITICS GLOSSARY -- Sporting metaphors always overrun the language of politics in the English-speaking world at election time - and perhaps most of all in the US. Here’s the right glossary.

(8)- FROM OUTER SPACE – An ancient Buddhist statue brought to Germany from Tibet by a Nazi-backed expedition has been confirmed as having an extraterrestrial origin (created from a piece of the Chinga meteorite).

(9)- THE LOBSTER -- The name “lobster” comes from the Old English loppestre, which is thought to be a corrupt form of the Latin word for locust combined with the Old English loppe, which meant spider.

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