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Secret Loss in 'Peach Blossom Land'

Taiwanese playwright Stan Lai's Secret Love In Peach Blossom Land employs a metatheatrical framework to examine memory, displacement, and cultural identity. By staging two ostensibly incompatible plays simultaneously, Lai creates a sophisticated commentary on how contemporary societies negotiate their relationship with history. Structural Innovation The play's

Conversation With Bill Thompson: Fragmented Information

This is the fourth and concluding part of the interview with BBC technology columnist, Mr. Bill Thompson. part 1, part 2, part 3An epidemiological study of how knowledge has traditionally spread in the world would probably show that at any one time, only a small amount of knowledge is available

Conversation With Bill Thompson: Copyright Law

This is part III of a four-part interview with Mr. Bill Thompson, noted technology columnist with the BBC. part 1, part 2 "Copyright is not a Lockean natural right but is a limited right granted to authors in order to further the public interest. This principle is explicitly expressed

Conversation With Bill Thompson: The Political Economy of the Internet

This is part 2 of the interview with Bill Thompson, a technology columnist for the BBC. part 1 When I look at the Internet, there is this wonderful sense of volunteerism. It is incredible to see the kind of things that have come out of recent technology, like the open

Conversation With Bill Thompson: The Future

Bill Thompson is a technology commentator for the BBC. Mr. Thompson was born in 1960 and grew up before there were computers around. "Indeed, I never touched one at school.” It was not until his third year at Cambridge University, when he was running experiments in Psychology, that he

Interview With Victor Stenger

Victor Stenger is professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, which debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List

Arithmetic Error

"It is estimated that 70 million Indians in a population of about 1 billion now earn a salary of $18,000 a year, a figure that is set to rise to 140 million by 2011." BBC Reports Chaste weighs in on the facts. It says that 70m Indians

Why Not to Think Like a Lawyer

The following article is by Chaste. The article was written as a response to the following two reviews in the New York Review of Books: * Three Questions for America * The Right to Ridicule Note I respond to two articles by Ronald Dworkin to illustrate the pitfalls of using lawyerly thinking