WEB BOHEMIAN
(Friday, November 16, 2012)
(1)- YOU
HAVE TO BE A TERRIBLE MONSTER TO WRITE -- With a mind as formidable as his
features, Colm Tóibín is now firmly a part of Ireland’s literary landscape.
It’s both a blessing and a curse.
(2)- ATHRITIS
AND RHINOS -- How the rhino got his walking stick. Every adult rhino alive
today is arthritic. The grand sweep of fossil history helps to illuminate one
of the minor mysteries of the animal kingdom.
(3)- ISRAELI
NUKES -- Israel does not need its nuclear arsenal to remain the Middles
East’s strongest power. It can make use of the stockpile, by offering it up as
a bargaining chip to end Iran's nuclear program.
(4)- JOHN
GOODMAN -- He’s been sober since 2007, having battled alcoholism since his
twenties. “It was terrible for my family,” says Goodman, who lives in New
Orleans with his wife, Anna Beth (their daughter, Molly, is 22 and in film
school), and tries to attend an AA meeting every morning.
(5)- INDIA/CHINA
-- Fifty years after the Sino-Indian War, the geopolitical rivalry between the
world’s two main demographic titans is again sharpening. New disputes deepen
old rifts.
(6)- MORE AND DEEPER
INDIA/CHINA INFO -- It’s not just
the prospect of war that, for many Indians, justifies a hard line on China—it’s
also the broader fear that China’s rise threatens India’s own ascent.
(7)- GERMAN
FEARS -- A growing community of German-speaking Islamists has developed on
the Internet. Aiming to find new recruits, they glorify jihad and call for
terrorist attacks on Germany.
(8)- ALDOUS
HUXLEY -- The author of the dystopian novel Brave New World, looked at the
year 2000 and envisioned a brave new world where swelling populations would put
tremendous strain on the Earth's resources.
(9)- GETTING
ALONG – Some advocates and psychologists argue we should celebrate mental
differences — from ADHD to autism — under the rubric of neurodiversity. There
is a risk, however, in romanticizing the advantages of neurological disorder.
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