Tuesday, November 6, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, November 6, 2012)

(1)- SUPERMAN QUITS NEWSPAPERING -- Clark Kent quits the Daily Planet in Superman #13 (the next comic book) — and he doesn’t go quietly. He resigns, “and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment.”

(2)- THE REASON FOR GRANDMOTHERS -- The helpfulness of grandmothers is the reason humans don't die in their thirties the way chimpanzees do, new research shows - and may even explain our bigger brains.

(3)- MECCA/HAJJ & ARCHITECTURE – The world’s 2nd tallest building towers over Mecca and it is just a tiny part of a voracious development that has seen historic sites bulldozed and locals forced into shantytowns.

(4)- BULLYING -- The appetite to bully cannot be treated as a social sickness, orthe product of maladaptive psychological development — which is how it is universally depicted in the media. Bullying is in our genes.

(5)- ARAB LITERATURE CONTROVERSY --  There’s been a controversy surrounding the Arab Novel Prize in Paris. This year the jury selected the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and his novel Rue Darwin, but…

(6)- A NEW BIO --  Born Norma Jeane Mortensen, father absent, mother institutionalized on and off as a paranoid schizophrenic, multiple foster homes; a spell in a Los Angeles orphanage, before being married at 16.

(7)- FINE FOOD -- What on earth could justify spending so much money on an exquisite, luxurious meal. It’s ultimately just fuel for humans… in a world where almost one billion people still go hungry every day?

(8)- ABOUT THAT ART HEIST -- In every great crime there is a clue. And the clue is often the element that doesn't fit. In this case, the thing that doesn't fit is the painting by Meyer de Haan. It makes you … think.

(9)- NOT SEEN -- Most urban streams and creeks are hidden in huge sewer tunnels under streets and expressways, in concrete ditches behind razor-wire fences, and sometimes even in pipes under the manicured lawns and gardens of city parks.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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