Christie, Agatha, The Clocks, HarperCollins Publishers Canada 1988 Amazon costomer review: 'The first time I read this novel, I had to reread it again. Why? So many questions still linger at the end of the story even though the pages has ended. I wondered and reread and after the third reading, I finally got it all. The Clocks is a story that has two main plots, and the one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. But they were connected in a way when a young typist finds a dead body in a livingroom of a blind woman. From there it's red herring all the way. But bits of real clues emerge when Mr Lamb (a fake name) talks to a girl with a broken leg. Poirot only comes in now and then but became more interested when another murder occurs, while Lamb becomes Poirot's legs, ears and eyes. Oh yes, there are clues aplenty, but a broken high heel has never been this important as a clue. Christie delivers this story with delightful take that neither too wordy nor too lengthy. This is another often neglected classic Christie, so get it. madonluv 
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Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That, Penguin Classics 2000 Amazon Product Description 'In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. "Goodbye to All That", with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.' 
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Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Mariner Books 2000 Jacket: 'At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing.' 
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Moulakis, Anathasios, Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial, University of Missouri 1998 Amazon Product Description 'Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial delivers what no other book on Weil has—a comprehensive study of her political thought. In this examination of the development of her thought, Athanasios Moulakis offers a philosophical understanding of politics that reaches beyond current affairs and ideological advocacy. Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—unites a profound reflection on the human condition with a consistent and courageous existential and intellectual honesty manifest in the moving testimony of her life and her death. Moulakis examines Weil's political thought as an integral part of a lived philosophy, in which analysis and doctrine are inseparable from the articulation of an intensely personal, ultimately religious experience. Because it is impossible to distinguish Weil's life from her thought, her writings cannot be understood properly without linking them to her life and character. By situating Weil's political thought within the context of the intellectual climate of her time, Moulakis connects it also to her epistemology, her cosmology, and her personal experience. Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial presents the unfolding of Weil's philosophical life against the backdrop of the political and social conditions of the last days of the Third French Republic, the Spanish Civil War, and the rise and clash of totalitarian ideologies. The ideological climate of the age—of which Weil herself was not quite free—was indeed the major "obstacle" in the struggle against which she fashioned her critical, intellectual, and moral tools. Weil has been categorized a number of ways: as a saint and a near convert to Roman Catholicism, as a social critic, or as an analytic philosopher. Moulakis examines all aspects of Weil's thought in the indissoluble unity in which she lived them. This thorough investigation pursues the particular intellectual affiliations and the social and political experiential stimuli of Weil's work while simultaneously teasing out the timeless themes that her own timely analysis was intended to reveal.' 
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Order of Preachers, Antiphonarium Ordinis Praedicatorum volume 1 Psalter, St Elias Press 2008  
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Redfield, James, The Celestine Prophecy, Warner Books 1995 Amazon from Publishers Weekly: 'Redfield's debut is a fast-paced adventure in New Age territory that plays like a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Moses's trek up Mt. Sinai.' 
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Seymour-Smith, Martin, Robert Graves: His Life and Work, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1995 Introduction: 'Robert graves is unique in English letters: in his paradoxical versatility -- as brilliantly successful popular historical novelist, eccentric but erudite mythographer, translator, pungent and outspoken critic, and as arrogant poet oblivious to pubic opinion -- and in his lifelong refusal to conform. It is of course as a poet that he will be chiefly remembered, and by general readers as well as by critics, who are certain to accord him major status (a phrase he hates). But he will be remembered too as a man, as a personality and perhaps as a kind of prophet of 'the Return of the Goddess'.' 
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Weyl (1985), Hermann, Space Time Matter (translated by Henry L Brose), Dover 1985 Amazon customer review: ' The birth of gauge theory by its author: This book bewitched several generations of physicists and students. Hermann Weyl was one of the very great mathematicians of this century. He was also a great physicist and an artist with ideas and words. In this book you will find, at a deep level, the philosophy, mathematics and physics of space-time. It appeared soon after Einstein's famous paper on General Relativity, and is, in fact, a magnificent exposition of it, or, rather, of a tentative generalization of it. The mathematical part is of the highest class, striving to put geometry to the forefront. Actually, the book introduced a far-reaching generalization of the theory of connections, with respect to the Levi-Civita theory. It was not a generalization for itself, but motivated by the dream (Einstein's) of including gravitation and electromagnetism in the same (geometrical) theory. The result was gauge theory, which, slightly modified and applied to quantum mechanics resulted in the theory which dominates present particle physics. Weyl's unified theory was proved wrong by Einstein, and his criticism alone, accepted by Weyl and included in the book, would justify the reading. Though wrong, Weyl's theory is so beautiful that Paul Dirac stated that nature could not afford neglecting such perfection, and that the theory was probably only misplaced. Prophetic words! . . . ' Henrique Fleming 
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Wilczek (2008), Frank, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces, Basic Books 2008 ' In this excursion to the outer limits of particle physics, Wilczek explores what quarks and gluons, which compose protons and neutrons, reveal about the manifestation of mass and gravity. A corecipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, Wilczek knows what he’s writing about; the question is, will general science readers? Happily, they know what the strong interaction is (the forces that bind the nucleus), and in Wilczek, they have a jovial guide who adheres to trade publishing’s belief that a successful physics title will not include too many equations. Despite this injunction (against which he lightly protests), Wilczek delivers an approachable verbal picture of what quarks and gluons are doing inside a proton that gives rise to mass and, hence, gravity. Casting the light-speed lives of quarks against “the Grid,” Wilczek’s term for the vacuum that theoretically seethes with quantum activity, Wilczek exudes a contagious excitement for discovery. A near-obligatory acquisition for circulating physics collections.' --Gilbert Taylor  
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Zee, Anthony, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press 2003 Amazon book description: 'An esteemed researcher and acclaimed popular author takes up the challenge of providing a clear, relatively brief, and fully up-to-date introduction to one of the most vital but notoriously difficult subjects in theoretical physics. A quantum field theory text for the twenty-first century, this book makes the essential tool of modern theoretical physics available to any student who has completed a course on quantum mechanics and is eager to go on. Quantum field theory was invented to deal simultaneously with special relativity and quantum mechanics, the two greatest discoveries of early twentieth-century physics, but it has become increasingly important to many areas of physics. These days, physicists turn to quantum field theory to describe a multitude of phenomena. Stressing critical ideas and insights, Zee uses numerous examples to lead students to a true conceptual understanding of quantum field theory--what it means and what it can do. He covers an unusually diverse range of topics, including various contemporary developments,while guiding readers through thoughtfully designed problems. In contrast to previous texts, Zee incorporates gravity from the outset and discusses the innovative use of quantum field theory in modern condensed matter theory. Without a solid understanding of quantum field theory, no student can claim to have mastered contemporary theoretical physics. Offering a remarkably accessible conceptual introduction, this text will be widely welcomed and used.  
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Andrew J Bacevich, A trip to flyover country to commmorate the 'forever wars' Americans would rather forget, ' Those whose names are engraved on the wall in Marseilles died in service to their country. Of that there is no doubt. Whether they died to advance the cause of freedom or even the well-being of the United States is another matter entirely. Terms that might more accurately convey why these wars began and why they have persisted include oil, dominion, hubris, the refusal among policymakers to own up to their own stupendous folly, and the collective negligence of oblivious citizens.' back

Andrew Mitrovica, America’s litany of lethal lies, ' Within moments, a “Hellfire” missile fired from a “Reaper” drone obliterated the Corolla and anyone nearby. The 10 dead included Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 13, as well as his cousin, Ahmad 30, and three of Ahmadi’s nephews, Arwin, seven, Benyamin, six, and Hayat, two and two three-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya. At first, the US military insisted, with typical bravado, that its carefully planned attack – triggered by unimpeachable “intelligence” that warned of impending mayhem – was “a righteous” reply that rid the world of a terrorist implicated in the murderous assault days earlier on Afghans and American soldiers milling outside Kabul’s airport, waiting for flight out and far from the Taliban’s murderous tentacles. It was the first of a litany of lies.' back

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Mihnea Mircan: A Biography of Daphne, ' A Biography of Daphne is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art. Daphne, the nymph who turned into a tree to evade the assault of the god Apollo, is a figure in, and of, crisis, but also a symbol of resistance and transformation.' back

Cheri Magid, A Poem and a Mistake, ' A Poem and a Mistake is a one-person show that follows the story of Myrrha, a grad student in the classics who is grappling with how to handle the 50 violent rapes in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The questions that emerge for her begin to collide with her own deeply buried personal experiences, and she finds herself in an unexpectedly vulnerable conversation with one of her male professors. When he offhandedly refers to the poem as, ‘being about love’. Myrrha becomes so distraught that she inadvertently pushes him, and suddenly, like the characters in Metamorphoses itself, the professor is transformed into a young woman who looks exactly like Myrrha. Both characters, Myrrha and Not-Myrrha, find themselves in an Ovid-like landscape where transformation is a magical and terrifying confrontation with their own gender, sexuality, and relationship to desire. This work is part of the exhibition A Biography of Daphne curated by Mihnea Mircan.' back

Cheri Magid & Sarah Baskin, A Poem and a Mistake , ' A Poem and a Mistake is a one-person show that follows the story of Myrrha, a grad student in the classics who is grappling with how to handle the 50 violent rapes in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The questions that emerge for her begin to collide with her own deeply buried personal experiences, and she finds herself in an unexpectedly vulnerable conversation with one of her male professors. When he offhandedly refers to the poem as, ‘being about love’. Myrrha becomes so distraught that she inadvertently pushes him, and suddenly, like the characters in Metamorphoses itself, the professor is transformed into a young woman who looks exactly like Myrrha. Both characters, Myrrha and Not-Myrrha, find themselves in an Ovid-like landscape where transformation is a magical and terrifying confrontation with their own gender, sexuality, and relationship to desire. back

Chicken Run - Wikipedia, Chicken Run - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, Aardman Animations, and Pathé. . . . The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. The plot centres on a group of chickens who see a rooster named Rocky as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners prepare to turn them into chicken meat pies. Released to critical acclaim, Chicken Run was also a commercial success, grossing over $224 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history.' back

CPT Symmetry - Wikipedia, CPT Symmetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Charge, parity, and time reversal symmetry is a fundamental symmetry of physical laws under the simultaneous transformations of charge conjugation (C), parity transformation (P), and time reversal (T). CPT is the only combination of C, P, and T that is observed to be an exact symmetry of nature at the fundamental level.[1][2] The CPT theorem says that CPT symmetry holds for all physical phenomena, or more precisely, that any Lorentz invariant local quantum field theory with a Hermitian Hamiltonian must have CPT symmetry.' back

Electron - Wikipedia, Electron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The electron is a subatomic particle, (denoted by the symbol e− or β−) whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.[9] Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family,[10] and are generally thought to be elementary particles because they have no known components or substructure.' back

Feynman, Leighton & Sands FLP III:07, Chapter 7: The Dependence of Amplitudes on Time, 'We want now to talk a little bit about the behavior of probability amplitudes in time. We say a “little bit,” because the actual behavior in time necessarily involves the behavior in space as well. Thus, we get immediately into the most complicated possible situation if we are to do it correctly and in detail. We are always in the difficulty that we can either treat something in a logically rigorous but quite abstract way, or we can do something which is not at all rigorous but which gives us some idea of a real situation—postponing until later a more careful treatment. With regard to energy dependence, we are going to take the second course. We will make a number of statements. We will not try to be rigorous—but will just be telling you things that have been found out, to give you some feeling for the behavior of amplitudes as a function of time.' back

Frank Wilczek (1999), Quantum Field Theory, 'Quantum field theory is the application of quantum mechanics to systems whose degrees of freedom depend continuously on space and time. In the quantum mechanics of a point particle, states are specified by wave function ψ(x), which gives the probability amplitude to find the particle at the position x. In quantum field theory, states are specified by a wave function (φ(x)) which specifies the probability amplitude for the field φ to be in the configuration φ(x).' back

Free neutron decay - Wikipedia, Free neutron decay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' When embedded in an atomic nucleus, neutrons are (usually) stable particles. Outside the nucleus, free neutrons are unstable and have a mean lifetime of 879.6±0.8 s (about 14 minutes, 39.6 seconds). . . . For the free neutron, the decay energy for this process (based on the rest masses of the neutron, proton and electron) is 0.782343 MeV. That is the difference between the rest mass of the neutron and the sum of the rest masses of the products. That difference has to be carried away as kinetic energy.' back

Gravitational-wave observatory - Wikipedia, Gravitational-wave observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'A gravitational-wave observatory (or gravitational-wave detector) is any device designed to measure gravitational waves, tiny distortions of spacetime that were first predicted by Einstein in 1916.[1] Gravitational waves are perturbations in the theoretical curvature of spacetime caused by accelerated masses. The existence of gravitational radiation is a specific prediction of general relativity, but is a feature of all theories of gravity that obey special relativity.' back

Hanna Chornous & Oleksandr Popenko, Remembering Babyn Yar and Ukraine's forgotten 'Holocaust by Bullets', ' This week marks 80 years since of one of the worst massacres of World War Two. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis at the ravine of Babyn Yar in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the space of just two days. It was part of a sustained German attempt to wipe out Jews across Eastern Europe, with historians estimating that more than two million were shot dead and buried in mass graves. Many were in Ukraine – and as our correspondent Jonah Fisher reports – the country is still grappling with the question of how the atrocities should be remembered.' back

Henry W. Kendall, Deep Inelastic Scattering: Experiments on the Proton and the Observation of Scaling (II), ' There are three lectures that, taken together, describe the MIT-SLACexperiments. The first, written by R.E.Taylor sets out the early history of the construction of the two mile accelerator, the proposal smade for the construction of the electron scattering facility, the antecedent physics experiments at other laboratories, and the first of our scattering experiments which determined the elastic proton structure form factors. This paper describes the knowledge and beliefs about the nucleon’s internal structure in 1968, including the conflicting views on the validity of the quark model and the “bootstrap” models of the nucleon. . . . The last lecture,by J. I. Friedman (Reference 2), isconcerned with the later measurements of inelastic electron-neutron andelectron-proton measurements and the details of the physical theory - theconstituent quark model - which the experimental scattering results stimu-lated and subsequently, in conjunction with neutrino studies, confirmed. back

Jerome I Friedman, Deep Inelastic Scattering: Comparisons with the quark model: Nobel Lecture 1990 (III), ' The first suggestion that deep inelastic scattering might provide evidence of elementary constituents was made by Bjorken in his 1967 Varenna lectures. Studying the sum rule predictions derived from current algebra, he stated, ". . . We find these relations so perspicuous that, by an appeal to history, an interpretation in terms of elementary constituents is suggested." . . . The constituent model which opened the way for a simple dynamical interpretation of the deep inelastic results was the parton model of Feynman. He developed this model to describe hadon hadron interactions in which the constituents of one hadron interact with those of the other.' back

Lagrangian mechanics - Wikipedia, Lagrangian mechanics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Introduced by the Italian-French mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1788, Lagrangian mechanics is a formulation of classical mechanics and is founded on the stationary action principle. Given a system of point masses and a pair, t₁ and t₂ Lagrangian mechanics postulates that the system's trajectory (describing evolution of the system over time) . . . must be a stationary point of the action functional S = ∫ L dt. By convention, L = T − V, where T and V are the kinetic and potential energy of the system, respectively.' back

Liam Vaughan, ‘Most Americans Today Believe the Stock Market Is Rigged, and They’re Right’, ' . . . This largesse has made Filler a big name in his hometown—but he’s an even bigger deal among a certain class of stock trader. That’s because Filler has an incredible track record buying shares in the companies he advises and invests in. Of the 496 trades he’s made since 2014 in Alabama’s ServisFirst Bancshares Inc., where he sits on the board of directors, and Century Bancorp Inc. of Massachusetts, where he’s the largest shareholder, 372 of them, or 75%, have shown a profit three months later. That’s the kind of run the world’s best stockpickers dream of, the financial equivalent of making the final table of the World Series of Poker main event in consecutive years.' back

Marguerite Johnson & Tanika Koosman, Friday essay: rethinking the myth of Daphne, a woman who chooses eternal silence over sexual assault, ' Among the many mythical figures changed through metamorphosis is the nymph or dryad, Daphne. One of the mythical beings who cared for trees, springs and other natural elements, Daphne was the child of Peneus, a Thessalian river god. Her decidedly sad and violent story, in which she is transformed into a tree to escape the lustful attention of the god Apollo, gives rise to the ancient explanation of the creation of the laurel tree, known as “daphne” by the ancient Greeks.' back

Mary Wharton, Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, ' Jimmy Carter becomes the first US president to openly embrace rock 'n' roll, forging close bonds with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and others.' back

Metamorphoses - Wikipedia, Metamorphoses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, back

New York Times Magazine, Voyages 2018 (Sponsored by GE), Images and sounds from around the world:
1. Kilauea, Hawaii
2. Maromizaha Forest, Lemurs, Madagascae
3. Atacame Desert, Chile
4. New York
5. Fishlake Natinal Forest, Aspen Clone, Utah
6. Lagos, Bus Station Sounds, Nigeria
7. Northern Italy, Teleferica Cable
8. St John, Coral Reef Souscapes, US Virgin Islands
9. Gol Gubaz, Maulsoleum Dome, Bijapur, India
10.Gorongosa National Park, Bat Cave, Mozambique
11. Nile River, Jinga, Bujugali Hydropower Station, Uganda,
12. Iceland, Mibaten Nature Baths, Northern Iceland
13. Epilogue, IEars Wide Open: Kim Tingley
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Noether's theorem - Wikipedia, Noether's theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Noether's (first) theorem states that any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. The theorem was proved by German mathematician Emmy Noether in 1915 and published in 1918. The action of a physical system is the integral over time of a Lagrangian function (which may or may not be an integral over space of a Lagrangian density function), from which the system's behavior can be determined by the principle of least action.' back

Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia, Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In the field of digital signal processing, the sampling theorem is a fundamental bridge between continuous-time signals (often called "analog signals") and discrete-time signals (often called "digital signals"). It establishes a sufficient condition for a sample rate that permits a discrete sequence of samples to capture all the information from a continuous-time signal of finite bandwidth.' back

Peter Balakian, My Armenia, ' Each time I’ve come to Yerevan in the past decade the city has surprised me with its evolving elegance and cultural richness. The downtown has an energy that is a long way from the sleepy Soviet city I first visited in the 1980s. / back

Plato, Apology by Plato: Internet Classics Archive, 'Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods; nor has my own approaching end happened by mere chance. But I see clearly that to die and be released was better for me; and therefore the oracle gave no sign. For which reason also, I am not angry with my accusers, or my condemners; they have done me no harm, although neither of them meant to do me any good; and for this I may gently blame them.' back

Plato: Crito, Crito: Internet Classics Archive, 'Persons of the Dialogue SOCRATES CRITO Scene The Prison of Socrates.' back

Pope Francis , Always Together: The unfinished work of Vatican II, ' The heart of the Gospel is the proclamation of the Reign of God, in the person of Jesus himself, the Emmanuel, God-Is-With-Us. In him, God brings his project of love for humanity to fulfillment, establishing his lordship over creatures and sowing the seed of divine life in human history, transforming it from within. Today, after many decades, we find ourselves in a world—and in a Church—deeply changed, and it’s probably necessary to make more explicit the Second Vatican Council’s key concepts, its theological and pastoral horizon, its topics, and its methods.' back

Potential energy - Wikipedia, Potential energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, potential energy is the energy of an object or a system due to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system. The SI unit for measuring work and energy is the joule (symbol J). The term potential energy was coined by the 19th century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine although it has links to Greek philosopher Aristotle's concept of potentiality. Potential energy is associated with a set of forces that act on a body in a way that depends only on the body's position in space.' back

Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia, Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole. . . . Entanglement is considered fundamental to quantum mechanics, even though it wasn't recognized in the beginning. Quantum entanglement has been demonstrated experimentally with photons, neutrinos, electrons, molecules as large as buckyballs, and even small diamonds. The utilization of entanglement in communication and computation is a very active area of research.' back

Quantum fluctuation - Wikipedia, Quantum fluctuation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum physics, a quantum fluctuation (or vacuum state fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary random change in the amount of energy in a point in space, as prescribed by Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. They are tiny random fluctuations in the values of the fields which represent elementary particles, such as electric and magnetic fields which represent the electromagnetic force carried by photons, W and Z fields which carry the weak force, and gluon fields which carry the strong force. Vacuum fluctuations appear as virtual particles, which are always created in particle-antiparticle pairs.' back

Richard E. Taylor, Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years: Nobel Lecture December 1990 (I), ' Soon after the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced Henry Kendall, Jerry Friedman and I agreed that we would each describe a part of the deep inelastic experiments in our Nobel lectures. The division we agreed upon was roughly chronological. I would cover the early times, describing some of the work that led to the establishment of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center where the experiments were performed, followed by a brief account of the construction of the experimental apparatus used in the experiments and the commissioning of the spectrometer facility in early elastic scattering experiments at the Center.' back

Schauder fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, Schauder fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The Schauder fixed point theorem is an extension of the Brouwer fixed point theorem to topological vector spaces, which may be of infinite dimension. It asserts that if K is a convex subset of a topological vector space V and T is a continuous mapping of K into itself so that T(K) is contained in a compact subset of K, then T has a fixed point.' back

Wang Xiangwei, China’s power crunch is being fuelled by a ‘simple and brutal’ approach to climate change targets, ' The Chinese phrase of Jiandan Cubao, which literally means “simple and brutal”, is something people should bear in mind if they want to understand China’s policymaking process, and why policies are executed in ways that rather than cure a headache are bound to make it bigger. . . . for bureaucrats, old habits die hard. When pushing for an unpleasant policy change, or facing an emergency, they still frequently resort to the “simple and brutal” approach to attain the end goal of the policy and damn the consequences.' back