Wednesday, October 17, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, October 17, 2012)

(1)- HUMAN CLONING WITHOUT THE HUMAN – A Japanese stem cell discovery could lead to human cloning without the need for humans. This could allow women an easier way to become pregnant later in life…

(2)- DID I DO THAT? -- Neuroscience is changing the meaning of criminal guilt. Crimes committed by sleeping individuals are rare. Yet they provide examples of the unnerving potential of the human unconscious.

(3)- INSECT SEX -- Sex on six legs, or eight, can be a sordid affair. Darwin observed, one should not look for moral uplift in nature. But insect sex does illustrates the dialectical nature of sexual evolution.

(4)- GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO – He embraced excess in everything he did. And he did many things: novelist, playwright, poet, aviator and sailor, a genuine war hero, narcissist, womanizer, drug addict, debt-evader…

(5)- BIBLICAL TRANSLATION -- Alter’s translation brings delight, after the precepts of the committees of King James. But it’s founded on a deeper conversance with Hebrew than 17th-century scholars could summon.

(6)- BAATHISM OBITUARY -- This anticolonial, pan-Arab ideology is near collapse. Damascus is its last stand. What will remain after the fall? Intellectual bafflement and paranoia...

(7)- SCIENCE/ART – The idea of scientists seeing the artistry in their work is captured by the world’s leading collection of photographs, X-rays and illustrations chronicling the history of medicine.

(8)- WILLIAM GUESS -- When he shot himself, surrounded by the police, he left unanswered the question: Why did an ordinary middle-class Texan turn into the most prolific bank robber in the state’s history?

(9)- CHESS AND ART – Marcel Duchamp says of the link between chess and art: “…every chess player experiences two aesthetic pleasures (the abstract image and the sensuous pleasure of the ideographic execution of that image on the chessboard.

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