Saturday/Sunday, October 20-21, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, October 20-21, 2012)

(1)- EVENT HORIZON NEWS -- Linked radio-telescopes across Hawaii, Arizona and California has given scientists a close-up of the accretion disk of a 50 million light-years distant supermassive black hole.

(2)- WOODY GUTHRIE -- Instability of his renown owes a bit to his leftist politics, but that's only part of the story. Some of it has to do with how he lived his life. He was a nonstop creator, but not an entrepreneur.

(3)- PRINCIPLED -- two exceptional men from the start of the Third Reich opposed the Nazi outrages: the scarcely known lawyer Hans von Dohnanyi and his brother-in-law, the well-known pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

(4)- PIONEERING NEUROSCIENTIST GIULIO TONONI -- His central idea goes roughly like this: First, consciousness is not an all-or-nothing property but instead exists on a gradient and can be quantified.

(5)- TAXIDERMY -- How we look at dead animals is linked to how we see each other. Taxidermy offers clues – and warnings – about our collective past. Forgive Us Our Skins: On Poliquin's 'Breathless Zoo.'

(6)- IT’S PERSONAL -- Does handwriting have a value that email and texting can't replace? The author laments the slow death of the written word, and shows how the pen on paper can still occupy a special place in our lives.

(7)- PATRON SAINT OF OBFUSCATION  -- The spirit of Adorno, the godfather of critical theory, has presided over not only many corners of scholarly life but over large swaths of popular culture as well.

(8)- GERMAN HEGEMONY -- Although Germany is the most important European country for overcoming today’s problems, its abilities to project its power at the EU level are substantially restricted and diminishing.

(9)- PEW RESEARCH -- The proportion of Americans explicitly rejecting a religious affiliation has doubled, from 10 percent, to 20 percent. And the proportion holding Christian fundamentalist religious views has declined.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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