Tuesday, October 9, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, October 9, 2012)

(1)- UNANSWERED PHILOSOPHY QUERIES -- Philosophy goes where hard science can't, or won't. Philosophers have a license to speculate about everything from metaphysics to morality. But some asks are unanswered.

(2)- COLD WAR STORY -- It took years before the story of what really happened on the B59 sub was discovered — and by then, Vasili Arkipov was dead. The man who prevented a nuclear war was a Russian submariner.

(3)- 3rd EYE -- Lizards have a little dot at the top of their heads that is called a "parietal eye." It's just a vestigial trait. In fact, most animals — including humans — had a chance at a third eye.

(4)-  THE LEAGUE OF DANGEROUS MAPMAKERS -- Who’s most to blame for our divisive politics? How about the gerrymanderers. Here’s a inside the dark art and modern science of making democracy a less democratic.

(5)- REASON FOR ALARM – A strain of gonorrhea resistant to the last drug available against it has emerged and it is the harbinger of a sexually transmitted global epidemic.

(6)- 1994 ROLLING STONE KURT COBAIN INTERVIEW -- Our man in Nirvana rages on (and on) about stardom, fatherhood, his feud with Pearl Jam, the death of grunge, and why he's never been happier in his life.

(7)- A NEW iPad APP --  It makes detailed images of Albert Einstein's brain more accessible to scientists than ever before. Teachers, students and anyone who's curious also can get a look.

(8)- SURVIVING MUSLIM RAGE -- Once again the streets of the Arab world are burning with false outrage. But we must hold our heads up high. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on how she survived Muslim rage—and how we can end it.

(9)- AMERICAN VIEWS -- It is widely believed that intellect stands for mere cleverness, which transmutes easily into the sly or the diabolical. It is pitted against practicality, since theory is held to be opposed to practice, and the 'purely' theoretical mind is so much disesteemed.

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