Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '. . . Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding' 
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Amazon.com, Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome, 'We give businesses and developers access to an on-demand, scalable workforce. Workers elect from thousands of tasks and work whenever it is convenient back

Andrew Higgins, 'I Am Always Asked if I Am Afraid': Activist Lawyer Takes On Putin's Russia, ' MOSCOW — After nearly losing her husband to an attack with lethal poison and surviving repeated clashes with burly Russian police officers, Lyubov Sobol looked on the bright side last week when she was targeted yet again in a long campaign of intimidation. “At least it wasn’t feces,” Ms. Sobol, a 31-year-old lawyer and opposition activist, said in an interview shortly after an unidentified assailant threw slimy black goop at her as she was getting into a taxi near her Moscow apartment block.' back

Andrew Mitrovica, Who is afraid of Greta Thunberg?, ' Not done calling her a freak and disturbed, Bolt invoked Thunberg's reported past eating disorder, emotional and psychological struggles and autism as a cudgel against her. I defer to psychologists to discern the pathology that would prompt such viciousness. But Bolt's fear of the Thunberg phenomenon is plain. She is prevailing. He is losing. She is being heard, while he shouts obscenities. She grows more relevant by the day, while he slips further into irrelevancy and hysteria.' back

Australian Catholic University, EDFD460 Creativity and Imagination in Education - Unity, 'This unit explores the nature of creativity and imagination and the potential they offer education today and is informed by the work of educational thinkers such as Ken Robinson and Elliot Eisner. As the world of education becomes dominated by government and business directives for accountability, the encouragement of originality, inventiveness and deeper thinking in decision-making which are fostered through creativity and imagination become critical abilities for the adults of tomorrow. This unit embraces a broad understanding of the concepts of creativity and imagination, and explores ways in which teachers might adopt principles and practices to encourage the abilities of both themselves and their students through teaching approaches.' back

Beijing Opera, Farewell My Concubine, ' After the Qin dynasty fell, there was a war between Chu and Han. Liu Bang, king of Han, appointed Han Xin to be the general who led his troops to attack Chu. Xiang Yu, king of Chu, was so conceited and stubborn. He launched a hasty campaign against the Han army immediately after being deceived by Li Zuoche, who was disguised as a Han traitor. Yu Ji, lady of Xiang, failed to dissuade Xiang Yu from going into battle and had to follow him. In the final battle at the Nine-Mile Mountain, Xiang Yu and his army were encircled by the army at Gaixia. The soldiers of Zhang Liang, a strategist of Han, tricked the Chu army by singing Chu folk songs. Xiang Yu's soldiers began to flee one after another. Yu Ji feared that she might be a burden on Xiang Yu, and then committed suicide in tears. Shortly after that, Xiang Yu was too guilt stricken to return to his hometown as a defeated king. He ends his own life with his own sword. Thus a great hero dies by the Wujiang River, leaving a sad legendary tale to be told by others. back

Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem - Wikipedia, Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematics, specifically in real analysis, real analysis, the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, named after Bernard Bolzano and Karl Weierstrass, is a fundamental result about convergence in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space Rⁿ. The theorem states that each bounded sequence in Rⁿ has a convergent subsequence. An equivalent formulation is that a subset of Rⁿ is sequentially compact if and only if it is closed and bounded.' back

Chris Brack, Framing the fearful symmetry of nature: the year's best photos of landscapes and living things, ' With the support of the South Australian Museum, this year’s Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition attracted hundreds of photographers who have attempted to frame the symmetry of nature’s danger and the beauty - both in landscape and living things.' back

David A Revzani, Has China forgotten how order was restored to Hong Kong after the 2003 Article 23 national security protests, 'Instead of hardline tactics and threats of military intervention, Hu Jintao’s administration defused the crisis by collecting public opinion from Hong Kong directly, holding local leaders accountable and increasing economic reassurances.' back

Edward Snowden - Wikipedia, Edward Snowden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Edward Joseph "Ed"[ Snowden (. . . born June 21, 1983) is an American computer specialist and a former CIA and NSA employee who leaked details of several top-secret United States and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.' back

Farewell My Concubine (film) Wikipedia, Farewell My Concubine (film) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese drama film directed by Chen Kaige. It is one of the central works of the Fifth Generation movement that brought Chinese film directors to world attention. Similar to other Fifth Generation films like To Live and The Blue Kite, Farewell My Concubine explores the effect of China's political turmoil during the mid-20th century on the lives of individuals, families, and groups. In this case, the affected are two male stars in a Beijing opera troupe and the woman who comes between them.' back

H. L. Mencken, H. L. Mencken - Wikiquote, 'Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. back

The Astronomer's Faith, The Asronomer's Faith, '[Wooton] also offers a whole new angle on the Watcher himself: Galileo as atheist. “Galileo’s central but unspoken claim,” Wootton asserts, “was that if one had a proper idea of nature then one could dispense with the Christian idea of an omnipotent, providential God who had created the universe and would judge the souls of men....” Although Galileo may have left room for an indifferent Platonic mathematician, he did not, Wootton claims, believe in the responsive God of the Bible. We should respect Galileo, therefore, as one of the great secular heroes of the modern world.' back

Jake Whitehead, Robin Smit & Simon Washington, Why battery-powered vehicles stack up better than hydrogen, ' Low energy efficiency is already a major problem for petrol and diesel vehicles. Typically, only 20% of the overall well-to-wheel energy is actually used to power these vehicles. The other 80% is lost through oil extraction, refinement, transport, evaporation, and engine heat. This low energy efficiency is the primary reason why fossil fuel vehicles are emissions-intensive, and relatively expensive to run. With this in mind, we set out to understand the energy efficiency of electric and hydrogen vehicles as part of a recent paper published in the Air Quality and Climate Change Journal.' back

John F. Haught, The Astronomer's Faith, Review of David Wooton: Galileo: Watcher of the Skies: . . . offers a whole new angle on the Watcher himself: Galileo as atheist. “Galileo’s central but unspoken claim,” Wootton asserts, “was that if one had a proper idea of nature then one could dispense with the Christian idea of an omnipotent, providential God who had created the universe and would judge the souls of men....” Although Galileo may have left room for an indifferent Platonic mathematician, he did not, Wootton claims, believe in the responsive God of the Bible. We should respect Galileo, therefore, as one of the great secular heroes of the modern world.' back

Josh Fox, Meet El Paso's Punk Rock Border Angels, ' If you are looking for the epicenter of America’s current moral and psychic crisis, head for El Paso. The divided border city is a clash of two distinctly American visions. One, a dream of diversity and multiculturalism—all-night fusion restaurants, Native American cafes with great cactus stew, and Tex-Mex skacore mosh pits that go all night. The other, a darker vision, that threatens it all, is a gentrifying monocultural nightmare masking a history of genocide and torture that erupts into white supremacist terrorism, xenophobia, and violence and which has been amped to a fever pitch under Donald Trump.' back

Karl Weierstrass - Wikipedia, Karl Weierstrass - Wikipedia. the free encyclopedia, ' Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (German: Weierstraß 31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics and trained as a teacher, eventually teaching mathematics, physics, botany and gymnastics. Weierstrass formalized the definition of the continuity of a function, proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals.' back

Liam Cochrane and Erin Handley, Hong Kong democracy protester 'detained'briefly by Border Force as artists counter Beijing, ' A Hong Kong pro-democracy student activist says she was targeted by Australian Border Force officials and briefly detained upon her arrival in Melbourne this week. Zoey Leung is one of three Hong Kong students visiting Australia as part of a delegation designed to shore up global support for their pro-democracy cause. She told the ABC that two male Border Force officers singled her out, questioned her for half-an-hour, and went through photos on her phone and social media accounts. . . . "They claimed there are riots in Hong Kong nowadays and they asked me about my intention to come to Australia … they asked me if I kept any weapons in my luggage.' back

Michael Inman, The baby with a fatwah on his head, 'A young Canberra mother's recurring nightmare is that her two-month-old son will be murdered before her eyes - and the worst part is that this could ultimately occur. Omar is the child of a marriage so forbidden his parents face a deadly fatwa if they return to their native India.' back

Teddy Ng & Kimmy Chung, Hong Kog is a mstter for China, Prmier Li Keqiang telld Angela Merkel, ' Merkel said the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong citizens should be guaranteed, and the Sino-British Joint Declaration should still be considered valid. The 1984 declaration, signed between former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang, states that China’s basic policies regarding Hong Kong “will remain unchanged for 50 years”, including the promise that the city would retain a high degree of autonomy. Beijing has declared the paper a historical document that no longer has any realistic meaning. When UK officials insisted that the agreement remained in effect, Beijing accused them of harbouring “colonial illusions”.' back

Tyson Yunkaporta, Friday essay: lessons from sone - indigenous thinking and the law, 'Perhaps further work needs to be done on what constitutes consciousness and what constitutes life. If the definitions of these things could include rocks as sentient beings, it would go a long way towards stemming the emu-like behaviours that are running rampant across the earth and cyberspace right now. Either that, or we could start mailing those Uluru rocks out to all the narcissists to give them a lesson in respect for others.' back

Vered Lee, This Palestinian Artist Dares to Celebrate Female Arab Sexuality, Despite Boycott Calls, ; When Hanan Abu-Hussein's father came to the opening of her debut exhibition, he left the museum after a few minutes, pale, stern and silent. He refused to speak to his daughter and waited in the car for the rest of the family. “It was the first time I had showed a work about the oppression of women and the murder of women in Arab society,” recalls Abu-Hussein. “It was hard to see that reaction from my father, but today I say that everything I have been through in my life is food for thought. I take everything that was hurled at me and use it in my art, after processing and thorough examination.' back

Verna Yu, Hong Long: 'Revolution is war, and no war is without bloodshed', ' Since early June, Hong Kong has been embroiled in its worst political crisis in decades. The wave of protests, sparked by the controversial extradition bill under which individuals can be sent to mainland China for trial, has entered its 13th week. Over the past three months, the protests have become a broader and increasingly violent anti-government movement as the animosity between demonstrators and police reaches boiling point.' back

Vivienne Chow, Two Cantonese opera veterans stopped 'Emporer of Heaven' from vanishing, ' The Imperial Emperor of Heaven is one of the most well-known deities in Chinese mythology. He rules the heavenly court, leading an army of gods, goddesses and the heavenly troops to safeguard humanity and justice on Earth. . . . The elaborate rendition of this folklore performed as Cantonese opera – one of Chinese opera’s vibrant art forms featuring opera, drama, music and even acrobatics – only narrowly avoided becoming lost forever nearly a decade ago. . . . Popular with audiences in southern China and parts of Southeast Asia, Cantonese opera was included as part of Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.' back

W3C, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 'The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. ' back

Werner Heisenberg, Quantum-theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations, 'The present paper seeks to establish a basis for theoretical quantum mechanics founded exclusively upon relationships between quantities which in principle are observable.' back