Thursday, October 25, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, October 25, 2012)

(1)- GUILT/ANIMALS -- When your dog looks at you with those sad eyes, is he guilty or is he just aware you're angry with him? And can animals, on their own, develop a sense of guilt for what they do to other animals?

(2)- DIDN’T HAPPEN -- Chris Todd attempted to “walk” 66 miles of open sea in a giant hamster wheel-like raft dubbed Tredalo. Unfortunately, the plan to cross the Irish Sea didn’t quite go to plan.

(3)- HOW IT WORKS -- Entrepreneurship and innovation do not appear in a vacuum; they appear in certain places. Geography and clustering play a clear role. And yet, the traditional narrative is far more complex.

(4)- ERIC KANDEL – He’s among the world's important neuroscientists. In an interview, he discusses the demonic side of man and the postcoital perspectives offered in Gustav Klimt's paintings. A Spiegel article:

(5)- A DISCUSSION OF -- Pseudoscience is not the same as bad science. The work of pseudoscientists is only ever identified as such—“a term of abuse”—when colleagues from across the legitimacy line feel threatened.

(6)- LONGEVITY CONSEQUENCES -- Is immortality a vain, heedless pursuit, a contemptible act of cowardice? Or is meekly resigning ourselves to our mortal fate tantamount to murder?...

(7)- FULL DETAILS -- Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Meyer de Haan, Lucian Freud and two by Monet are stolen from a Rotterdam gallery in one of the most spectacular art heists of modern times.

(8)- WHO’S RIGHT AND WHO’S WRONG? -- For decades the sciences and the humanities have fought for knowledge supremacy. Both sides are wrong-headed. The fight strikes at the core of what we mean by human knowledge.

(9)- CONSEQUENCES OF NEWSPAPER EXCESS --  That those who own and run our newspapers were given so many last chances and that they squandered them so thoughtlessly and at such cost removes the last doubt about the need to call time.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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