WEB BOHEMIAN
(Thursday, November 1, 2012)
(1)- POLITICS/ART -- Do the arts offer special access to
political truth? History would say no. In the free world, with a few notable
exceptions, art that has been “politically engaged” has most often been
directed…
(2)- PLACEBO -- Research into placebos is broadening out to examine
everything that affects a patient's expectations for treatment — how the doctor
talks and acts, the side effect information they read online…
(3)- FUTURE CHINA --Much is written concerning the impending
hegemony of an emerging Chinese state that will dominate the world
economically. But close examination reveals a complex picture for the Chinese
nation state.
(4)- WHEN THE U.S. INVADED CANADA -- The invasion of York during the War of
1812 contained a touch of “comic opera” quality. A librarian recalls the
invasion and US soldiers’ looting of the first-ever Toronto Library.
(5)- THE BEATING HEART OF THE DIGITAL AGE – It’s a physical location where the scope,
grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest. It’s the home
of a key Google data center.
(6)- BAKER STREET IRREGULARS -- Founded in New York in 1934 by
Christopher Morley and others devoted to Sherlock Holmes stories, for more than
seventy-five years the BSI has “perpetuated the myth that Sherlock Holmes is
not a myth.”
(7)- SLEEP WOES -- The main symptom of fatal familial insomnia is the inability
to sleep. First the ability to nap disappears, then the ability to get a full
night’s sleep, until the patient cannot sleep at all.
(8)- CABLESE -- It is partly the Phillips Code, which itself was a shorthand
version of the Morse Code, and partly in “wirespeak,” the UPI and AP jargon
independently devised for internal communications.
(9)- ABOUT READING BOOKS -- Six thousand books is a lot of reading,
true, but the trash like "Hell's Belles" and "Kid Colt and the
Legend of the Lost Arroyo" and even "Part-Time Harlot, Full-Time
Tramp" that I devoured during my misspent teens really puff up the numbers.
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