WEB BOHEMIAN
(Thursday, November 8, 2012)
(1)- ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE -- The ozone hole above the Antarctic hits
its maximum extent for the year. Due to warm temperatures, the protective
atmospheric layer opening was the 2nd smallest it has been for 20 years.
(2)- HERMIT CRABS -- Typically ‘social’ animals gather
together for reasons to do with sex, food, or safety, but there are other
reasons to, as some new research on hermit crabs has shown. It’s called
thievery.
(3)- WHAT WE ARE BECOMING -- Many people see the current group of
college students, called 'Generation Me,' as among the most self-centered,
narcissistic, competitive, confident, and individualistic in history.
(4)- DIFFICULT TOPIC -- One thing we know for sure about the
sexuality of conjoined twins: People who aren't conjoined are fascinated by it.
An opinion based on reporters asking about the sex lives of conjoined twins.
(5)- BOOK OF JAZZ -- Jazz developed while the great popular
music was being turned out. It was a golden age for songs. They had a classic
quality in length and shape and form and flexibility of harmony.
(6)- BENOIT MANDELBROT – He was a cult figure. His key discovery,
fractal geometry, generated a weird visual beauty. His set of mathematical
objects is produced using a formula that he describes as “very plain.”
(7)- DEMOCRACY -- Viewed through the American exceptionalism prism, will
belief that the US is the shining city on the hill, the last best hope of
mankind, always trump “mere” economic data or geostrategic trends?
(8)- THEORY/NOVELS
-- It’s a vision of an odd conservative, undialectical postmodern utopia, in
which novelists and critical theorists march hand in hand, each new theoretical
vista finding its narrative mate.
(9)- JACQUES BARZUN – It was said of him he saw only decadence:
the breakdown of a rich tradition that now must somehow be thrown away for
something fresh and new to arise. Decadence is not a pejorative for him but a
description of this sad and somehow inexorable condition.
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