Saturday/Sunday, October 27-28, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, October 27-28, 2012)

(1)- EDIBLE IDIOMS -- All languages are rich in food-related figures of speech, from Swedes 'sliding in on a shrimp sandwich' to Japanese speakers 'eating cold rice'. What are your favourites?

(2)- COSMIC RAYS -- Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory develop a method to use cosmic rays to locate molten nuclear fuel within the crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

(3)- EMMANUELLE DIES -- Sylvia Kristel, 60, is dead. She starred in a series of notorious 1970s soft-porn films beginning with Emmanuelle, which followed the sexual exploits of a bored young diplomat’s wife in the fleshpots of Thailand.

(4)- HYPOCHONDRIA – There’s a culture gap between those for whom illness is a rare and indisputable fact and those for whom the signs of ill-health are just the beginning of a series of complex negotiations…

(5)- BILL & HILLARY FOREVER -- The operating premise among most Democrats is that if Hillary does choose to dive in, the nomination will more than be hers for the taking: It will be handed to her on a silver salver.

(6)- ARCHITECTURE AND HEALTH -- Contemporary architecture and urban planning seem to address uncritically the conditions and context in which this discourse on health is developing.

(7)- THE BOTTOM ONE PERCENT -- We don't hear nearly as much about the bottom 1 percent. Who are they? Where are they? Why are they in the bottom 1 percent? And what should we do about them?

(8)- IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE -- Some 249 million years ago, parts of Earth were so hot they were uninhabitable. Scorching temperatures led to an extinction event – the only time this has happened in Earth's history.

(9)- EASY MONEY -- This is the time of high-frequency trading. It has revolutionized the financial industry. The market is quick – too quick, and too uncontrollable. Even regular computers have become insufficient in the age of microseconds.

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