Thursday, October 11, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, October 11, 2012)

(1)- DIGITAL VATICAN TRANSPARENCY --  The last and most ancient of the world's absolute monarchies is now in the fishbowl culture of the 21st century, where the most trivial and important details become transparent.

(2)- CAMILLE -- Paglia’s pugnacious, know-it-all attitude should come as no surprise. She made her name in 1990 with a sweeping cultural history that challenged the political correctness of the era by suggesting…

(3)- MARS PANORAMA -- This is the latest panorama released by NASA this summer. It was assembled from 817 images taken during six months froman outcrop on a segment of the rim of ancient Endeavour Crater.

(4)-PUSSY RIOT -- They've become global heroes and foils to the macho rule of Vladimir Putin. But not even a two-year prison term can keep Russia's celebrated punk band muzzled.

(5)- WHITHER THE BRAIN? -- Evolutionary psychologists are not as imperialist in ambitions as sociobiologist forebears of the nineteen-seventies, but they tend to be no less hubristic in their claims.

(6)- HITLER’S BERLIN – For liberals and leftists in Germany, Berlin has always represented the dark side of German history. As capital of the military state of Prussia, it became the grandiose center and symbol…

(7)- OF JOHN KEATS – Appropriately, Keats, with his Romantic attachment to classical Italy, rests in the Protestant cemetery in Rome, a few tombs from Shelley, himself a poet captivated by the warm south.

(8)- THE CASE AGAINST ECONOMIC GROWTH -- 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.

(9)-KINGSLEY AMIS -- He hated tolerance, diversity, foreign languages, airplanes, popular music, all female novelists—save perhaps Dame Agatha Christie—bebop and modal jazz, being alone, art cinema… and yet…

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