WEB BOHEMIAN
(Monday, November 12, 2012)
(1)- STEM
CELL LAWS OVERVIEW -- Countries around the world have responded to the
ethical problems raised by embryonic stem cell research in a number of ways.
Some governments bar research; some finance it.
(2)- OBVIOUSLY
-- The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is more than a sexy oneiric romp, more than a
mere historical curiosity. It is the expression of a plight, one that we all
find in our modest round as discoverers.
(3)- DEEP
SPACE CONSTRUCTION -- Deep-space engineers put together a prototype of a
deep space station from ISS scrap parts, working out optimum capsule size,
equipment outside of the Earth-Moon system…
(4)- ABOUT
LAST SUPPER -- Leonardo may have dreamed of constructing tanks and guns, of
placing a dome on Milan’s half-built cathedral, But he was going to do none of
these things. Instead, he was going to paint a wall.
(5)- MONOPOLY GAME HISTORY
– It’s true origins go unmentioned in official literature. Three decades before
it’s 1903 patent, a Maryland actress named Lizzie Magie created a proto-Monopoly
as a tool for teaching…
(6)- BIG
DATA IS COMING FOR YOUR BOOKS -- All human endeavor has by now generated
its own monadic mass of data, and through these vast accumulations of ciphers
the robots now endlessly scour for significance.
(7)- IRON
CURTAIN -- Even a quarter-century after the opening of Eastern Europe’s
archives, we know virtually nothing about how people lived behind the Iron
Curtain. Consider this insight:
(8)- SCIENCE JEOPARDY --
The jailing of six Italian scientists and a government official for failing to
predict an earthquake has caused uproar in the scientific community. But
science has been soothsaying!
(9)- KURTS
DIES -- Paul Kurtz was called many names during his career, including
"Satanic free-thinker" and "dangerous corrupter of young
minds." But he most prized it when they called him a secular humanist.
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