WEB BOHEMIAN
(Thursday, October 18, 2012)
(1)- K-POP
PHENOM – It’s an East-West mash-up. The performers are mostly Korean, and
their mesmerizing synchronized dance moves, accompanied by a complex telegraphy
of winks and hand gestures, have an Asian flavor, but…
(2)- BULLFIGHTER
COMEBACK -- Last fall, one of Spain's greatest matadors took a horn to the
face. It was a brutal goring, among the most horrific in the history of
bullfighting. Miraculously, he’s back in the bullring.
(3)- BRAIN
ON DRUGS -- It’s a cultural zeitgeist in America that “your brain on drugs”
is a brutish, violent experience that produces nothing but euphoria at the
moment at the expense of the user’s future. But…
(4)- EINSTEIN’S
1954 GOD LETTER IN AUCTION – His God Letter was written a year before
Einstein’s death. The famous physicist talks about god, religion, and
tribalism, after a lifetime of learning and thought..
(5)- FINDING
WHERE THE ALIENS ARE -- A team of astronomers is now looking for Dyson
Spheres, massive star-scale solar power plants that extraterrestrial hunters
hope alien civilizations employ.
(6)- THOSE
GOOD TEEVEE SHOWS -- What all these shows, presented in the most popular
form of their time, have in common is classical tragedy moral weight,
underscored by a more modern sense of daily human comedy.
(7)- FIRST GREAT MODERN PHILSOPHER
– Thomas Hobbes was the most vilified thinker in British history, and he had
almost no defenders in his own country for about a century after his death in
1679 at the age of 91.
(8)- THOSE BRIT CIVIL
WARS -- In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as
rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars. Sarah Mortimer offers a guide to
the latest scholarship.
(9)- THAT
GUIDE -- Just over a century ago, two French tire manufacturers created the
Michelin guide. According to the author, it has blighted the lives of chefs
from Brooklyn to Bombay, while spawning legions of checklist gourmands.
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