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July 07, 2006
THE LOW-FREQUENCY DEMONSTRATOR...
...that is now beginning to be assembled in Mileura, Australia will enable a closer (far closer!) look at the emergence of our universe from the pre-big bang singularity. Here's an account based on information provided by MIT where the project's leader, Colin J. Lonsdale, is based.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:07 PM | Comments (0)
A WAY OUT OF THE STEM-CELL DILEMMA...
...is proposed here in an important column by one of the members of the President's Council on Bioethics. This deserves close discussion and we hope to contribute to that discussion in a forthcoming Extension 720 program.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:06 PM | Comments (0)
PHILIP RIEFF HAS JUST DIED:
How he lived for the last forty "quiet years" was partly conveyed in this interesting article that appeared last year in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:05 PM | Comments (1)
ANTI-ZIONISM MORPHING INTO ANTI-SEMITISM...
...is what Phyllis Chesler observes in the recent actions of yet another British professorial organization. This hard-hitting essay should be sent to all the Dons you know at Oxford, Cambridge or the "red brick" universities of the U.K.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:04 PM | Comments (0)
ANY NEW BOOK BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB...
...is bound to be, at least, interesting and, at most, thrilling (if you get shudders of delight from flashes that sharply illuminate the history of ideas). Obviously, this reviewer has just experienced the Himmelfarb effect.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:03 PM | Comments (0)
WANT TO MEET A NUTTY, UNRECONSTRUCTED, ACADEMIC COMMUNIST?
Here he is, fulminating in execrable prose, as he nostalgifies over the "Frankfurt School" eminences who shaped him into what he now is: a flack for the Marxist President of Venezuela. A little knowledge--particularly if obtained from Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer--is, indeed, a dangerous thing.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:02 PM | Comments (0)
WE HAVE SEEN THE INTERNET AND IT IS--US!!
Wired magazine, impressed by the rapid growth of "peer-produced" supersites, thinks that it has espied a social (and economic!) revolution in the making.
Posted by Ext720 at 01:02 PM | Comments (0)
FOUR CHAMBER WORKS BY MODERN COMPOSERS...
...are featured in this concert from the 2006 Argerich Festival which was concluded last week in Lugano, Switzerland. Not to be missed: the Carmen fantasy by Franz Waxman.
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