WEB BOHEMIAN
(Tuesday, November 20, 2012)
(1)- PECULIAR
GENERATION -- What about the people born between the beginning of World War
II, in 1939, and its end, in 1945? They were members of a transitionally
awkward generation…
(2)- ASTROID
BELT IS THE KEY -- A new study suggests that having the right kind of
asteroid belt in a solar system could be essential to finding intelligent life
in the universe – including here on Earth.
(3)- SPECIAL
COOKING INFO – This website has fascinating and sophisticated cooking
information. It’s worth the look. Here’s
one section on edible fruits and flowers.
(4)- HEARING
& LISTENING -- Conscious thought
takes place at about the same rate as visual recognition, requiring a
significant fraction of a second per event. But hearing is a quantitatively
faster sense.
(5)- PANENTHEISM –
Is this the other God of philosophers? When it comes to philosophically radical
ideas, scientists will accept from mathematicians what they will not take from
theologians.
(6)- LITERATURE
& ODESSA -- The great Russian
writers flocked to Odessa, which now has a museum of literature created by an
ex-KGB officer in a palace by the Black Sea.
(7)- ELLIOT CARTER
-- This American composer died at 103. Apart from Pierre Boulez, he was the
last survivor of the heroic age of postwar musical modernism, and perhaps its
greatest exponent.
(8)- THINGS
WORTH CARING ABOIUT NEAR LIFE’S END -- Peace and quiet, young artists, The
Odyssey, Marcel Proust… the ancients, Shakespeare, Keats, all the people you
love… telling the truth, love affairs, noses.
(9)- ABOUT
ANARCHISM -- Rule breaking and insubordination aren't, in and of
themselves, anarchist. A new book is the best articulation of an inconsistent
mode of thinking that has earned the deserved ire of committed leftists of many
stripes.
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