Saturday/Sunday, November 10-11, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, November 10-11, 2012)

(1)- GOING HOME -- More than 4,000 archaeological artifacts looted from Mexico and seized in the U.S. are returned to Mexico in what experts say is one of the largest such repatriations between the countries.

(2)- FUTURE OF MANKIND -- Will the unprecedented success of Homo sapiens lead to an unavoidable downfall? With 7 billion of us crowding the planet, it’s hard to imagine A more vital question.

(3)- INSOMNIA -- Sleepless people are a very different breed. Every evening—even if it eventually, mercifully comes to an end—is shredded by anxiety. To reach sleep the insomniac must first pass through terror.

(4)- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What's holding us up? What is needed is … a theory that explains how brains create explanations.

(5)- DIGGING UP SMITHSON -- Alexander Graham Bell traveled to Italy at the turn of the 20th century on an audacious mission to rescue the remains of the man whose legacy endowed the Smithsonian Institution.

(6)- WARFARE FUTURE -- The United States emerged from a brutal decade of ground warfare with powerful new tools to wage counterinsurgency warfare and precision counterterrorism campaigns, but with diminished…

(7)- INFO -- The concept of information can seem abstract and intangible. Classical information theory has no room for meaning—but humans persist in assigning meaning. How can we reconcile this difference?

(8)- CHINA ART COLLECTORS -- Entrepreneurs snap up works by international contemporary art stars to amass major and sometimes museum-worthy collections. But what about government scrutiny.

(9)- CHINA -- Beijing quietly strengthens its position economically and diplomatically in Central Asia, perhaps the most pivotal geographic zone on the planet. This development has powerful implications for the world.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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