Tuesday, October 30, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, October 30, 2012)

(1)- HEALTH IN PERSPECTIVE -- Our obsession with health and medicine can be traced to the very founding of modernity, back at least to Descartes, who described health as “the primary good.” Is it overvalued?

(2)- THORNY QUESTION -- Can any genuinely modern work afford to be entirely without irony? Irony constitutes the book’s anti-self; the condition of its non-being.

(3)- LESSONS CAN BE OFFERED -- What practical lessons can the experience of post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe offer to Arab Spring countries that are attempting to overhaul their economic systems?

(4)- REMEMBERING -- When Star Trek: The Next Generation turned 25 recently, we voyaged back to where no one has gone since the show went off the air. We unpacked our most and least memorable episodes…

(5)- THIS GUY IS SOMETHING -- He’s a hero, visionary digital entrepreneur, the savior of my online liberties. Hollywood is terrified by the digital future, and an innocent paid the price. Kim is a martyr. But…

(6)- EVERYBODY’S DIFFERENT -- A rare Japanese frog sports spikes protruding from a set of pseudo-thumbs. The built-in weaponry helps the males grab onto females during sex and duel with competitors over mates.

(7)- HOW DO ART THIEVES PROFIT? -- Most stolen art work goes underground. The thief sells his haul to an unscrupulous art dealer, who usually sells it on to a private collector who keeps it for a while. And then…

(8)- NEW MOON REPORT -- Scientists have long believed that Earth's moon was in a colossal planetary collision. Now we learn the Moon's origins are far more peculiar and more mysterious than previously believed.

(9)- SCARIEST CORNER OF THE WORLD -- Zaranj is the capital of Nimruz — by many measures the most isolated province in Afghanistan, at the remotest southwest corner of the country. It’s the bloody border of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

POLITICAL CARTOON

ENDIT