WEB BOHEMIAN
(Wednesday, November 7, 2012)
(1)- MOB JUSTICE IN NIGERIA -- Lynching is common in Nigeria.
Extrajudicial killing is often the fate of those accused of kidnapping and
armed robbery, but also of those suspected of minor crimes…
(2)- IKARIA (where people forget to die) – It’s an island of 99 square miles; home to
almost 10,000 Greek nationals. It lies about 30 miles off the western coast of
Turkey. Its mountains rises out of the Aegean Sea.
(3)- RAYMOND CHANDLER WRITING IN 1945 --
Chandler scored a personal success, but he did so without losing sight
of the difficulties encountered by the creative writer in the studios. There is
this anomaly:
(4)- PARADISE WITH AN ASTERISK -- Bikini Atoll, a tiny ring of islands
halfway between Hawaii and Australia, is a world-class diving destination and
home to one of the Pacific's last great fishing grounds. But…
(5)- TOUGH QUESTIONS -- Scientists create embryos with genes from
one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be used
to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases.
(6)- MARKETING IN CHINA -- Veet is among the fastest-growing brands in
China (where women have relatively little body hair). And yet Asian hair
removal sales of hair rising 20 percent annually. It’s in the marketing.
(7)- FRIENDSHIP -- Men and women have
vastly different views of what it means to be “just friends.” These differing
views have the potential to lead to trouble. Men seem unable to turn off their
desire for more.
(8)- COOKING -- Humans have more brain neurons than any other primate. If
you eat only raw food, there are not enough hours in the day to get enough
calories to build such a large brain. Cooking is necessary.
(9)- NOW WE KNOW
-- Scientists find what you are dreaming about while you sleep. Functional
neuroimaging scanning brains as people slept was done simultaneously while
recording their brain waves electroencephalography.
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