Kernigan (2009), Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language , Prentice 2009 'The computing world has undergone a revolution since the publication of the first edition of the C Programming Language. During this time, the C language has changed and spread beyond its origins as the language of the UNIX operating system. This second edition provides a more comprehensive and contemporary definition of the C language as defined by the ANSI standard_the "ANSI C". The most striking change relates to the new form of function declaration and definition.' 
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Nicholls (2025), Jeffrey, Cognitive Cosmogenesis: A systematic unification of physics and theology, Austin Macauley Publishers 12025 ' This book is a personal narrative of those events and a defense of the belief that the universe itself is divine. The central argument is that by embracing this reality and abandoning notions of supernatural deities, humanity can resolve its problems. The universe, it is argued, is self-creating, and a proper understanding of physics leads to a plausible scientific theology. The natural intelligence inherent in the universe, from cellular organization to ecosystems, far surpasses any artificial intelligence. Comprehending this natural order, the author suggests, would make achieving world peace relatively straightforward. The book contends that modern theologians should recognize the physical world, rather than ancient texts, as the foundation for credible theology. It also addresses the historical entanglement of religion and politics, asserting that the model of creation presented herein fundamentally rejects the imperialistic ambitions that have fueled genocidal holy wars.'  
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Shuang-Zi (2020), Yang, and Translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, Taiwan Travelogue, Picador India ' Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered Japanese text Taiwan Travelogue unburies long colonial histories and deftly reeals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.' 
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Slobodian (2025), Quinn, Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right, Alan Lane 2025 After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in the virtues of markets and competition, seemed to have triumphed. Communism had been defeated — and Friedrich Hayek, the spiritual father of neoliberal economics, had just about lived to see it. But in the decades that followed, Hayek's disciples knew that they had a problem. The rise of social movments, from civil rights and feminism to environmentalism, were now proving roadblocks in the road to freedom, nurturing a culture of government dependency, public spending, political correctness and special pleading, Neoliberls needed an antidote.
In this illuminating new book, historian Quinn Slobodian reveals how, from the 1990s onwards, neoliberal thinkers turned to nature, in an attempt to roll back social changes and to return to a hierarchy of gender, race and cultural difference. He explores how these thinkers drew on the language of science, from cognitive psychology to genetics, in order to embed the idea of 'competition' ever deeper into social life, and to advocate cultural homogeneity as essential for markets to truly work. Reading and misreading the works of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they forged alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates and ethnonationalists that would become known as the alt-right.' 
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Zee (2010), Anthony, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press 2010 ' Since it was first published, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell has quickly established itself as the most accessible and comprehensive introduction to this profound and deeply fascinating area of theoretical physics. Now in this fully revised and expanded edition, A. Zee covers the latest advances while providing a solid conceptual foundation for students to build on, making this the most up-to-date and modern textbook on quantum field theory available. This expanded edition features several additional chapters, as well as an entirely new section describing recent developments in quantum field theory such as gravitational waves, the helicity spinor formalism, on-shell gluon scattering, recursion relations for amplitudes with complex momenta, and the hidden connection between Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity. Zee also provides added exercises, explanations, and examples, as well as detailed appendices, solutions to selected exercises, and suggestions for further reading.' 
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Christopher Knaus (2027_06_27), Christian Brothers sold real estate worth millions for $1. Now it claims in court it lacks money to pay abuse survivors, ' Between 1980 and 2015, 1,015 people made child abuse claims against the Christian Brothers, the highest number of claims against any Catholic order. The claims identified 483 different alleged perpetrators across 100 Christian Brothers schools.
Now, the order is telling a court it is broke.
This week, the Christian Brothers applied for a court-ordered moratorium on all remaining civil cases lodged against it by survivors. If granted, it would permanently halt at least 200 civil claims.
The order says it wants to instead sell its remaining property portfolio – 36 properties, worth about $216m – and divvy up the leftovers between a range of creditors, including survivors, using a scheme run by retired judges. It has already confirmed the sell-off will not provide enough cash for it to pay creditors all of what they are owed.
But a trove of church property records obtained by Guardian Australia tells another story – one that survivors have not been made aware of.
A Guardian investigation can reveal that the Christian Brothers has spent the last decade transferring large, multimillion-dollar property holdings for amounts of $1 to a separate Catholic church entity which is not part of the proposed sell-off scheme.
The beneficiary of the $1 property deals is Edmund Rice Education Australia, an independent organisation created in 2007 to assume control of schools previously associated with the Christian Brothers like Waverley College in Sydney, Trinity College in Perth and St Joseph’s Nudgee College in Brisbane.
Property records reveal that, in New South Wales alone, the Christian Brothers transferred 26 separate properties to Edmund Rice Education Australia for amounts of $1 or $0 between 2013 and 2024, with most of the transfers occurring in 2018.
The properties are now worth well over $50m. They include multimillion-dollar homes around schools in the Sydney suburbs of Waverley and Strathfield, as well as school buildings and vacant land.
The most recent transfer involved a five-bedroom Strathfield home, complete with a back yard pool, in November 2024. The property currently has an estimated value of $4.7m. Edmund Rice got it for $1. “The transferor [Christian Brothers] acknowledges receipt of the consideration of $1.00,” a document detailing the transaction says.
Many of the transfers were signed off by the Christian Brothers’ Oceania leader Peter Clinch.' Edmund Rice Education Australia was designed as an administratively and financially separate entity to the Christian Brothers, despite being named after the Christian Brothers’ founder. It continues to hold vast wealth, reporting net assets of $2.3bn and $345m in cash as of December 2024. back

Concept of the Corporation - Wikipedia, Concept of the Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The book is an examination of General Motors' operations, delving into how large corporations impact society on a broad level. Drucker's biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as "a book about business, the way Moby Dick is a book about whaling".
In writing and researching the book, Drucker was given access to General Motors resources, paid a full salary, accompanied CEO Alfred P. Sloan to meetings, and was given free run of the company. [. . .]
Until then, management was seen as a no-brainer: the CEO would simply give the orders and the others would follow. But Drucker was interested in the human interactions within a company, and more specifically on how power structures, political environments, information flows, decision making and managerial autonomy contributed to success. By shifting his focus, he was able to explain why General Motors was such a success. [. . .]
GM was very pleased with Drucker's work, until Drucker published his book, Concept of the Corporation. The book strongly praises General Motors for developing management techniques, programs, and infrastructure. But GM interpreted the suggestions that Drucker made—to decentralise the company in order to even become more successful—as betrayal. [. . .]
For Drucker this was completely unexpected: He found GM a great company, which he had even compared with the U.S. government. Drucker used the term "federal decentralization" to describe it, as he felt that a company should be organized in a number of autonomous businesses. Much like the way the U.S. Government gave power to the states, GM should give its divisions more autonomy. It would take GM several decades to listen. By then, Drucker had helped the Japanese, who embraced his intentions and the hybrid organization form, leap in front of many American companies.' back

Dr. No (film) - Wikipedia, Dr. No (film) - Wikipedia, th fr ncyclopdia, ' Dr. No is a 1962 spy film and the first film in the James Bond series, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Co-starring Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was directed by Terence Young and adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather from the 1958 novel by Ian Fleming. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli of Eon Productions, a partnership that continued until 1975. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon. back

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors - Wikipedia, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In linear algebra, an eigenvector or characteristic vector of a linear transformation is a nonzero vector that changes at most by a scalar factor when that linear transformation is applied to it. The corresponding eigenvalue, often denoted by λ, is the factor by which the eigenvector is scaled. Geometrically, an eigenvector, corresponding to a real nonzero eigenvalue, points in a direction in which it is stretched by the transformation and the eigenvalue is the factor by which it is stretched. If the eigenvalue is negative, the direction is reversed. Loosely speaking, in a multidimensional vector space, the eigenvector is not rotated.' back

Goldfinger (film) - Wikipedia, Goldfinger (film) - Wikipedia, the free encycloppdia, ' Goldfinger was heralded as the film in the franchise where James Bond "comes into focus". Many elements introduced in it appeared in many of the later Bond films, such as the extensive use of technology and gadgets by Bond, an extensive pre-credits sequence that stood largely alone from the main plot, multiple foreign locales and tongue-in-cheek humour. The film's release led to a number of promotional licensed tie-in items, including a toy Aston Martin DB5 car from Corgi Toys, which became the biggest-selling toy of 1964, and an image of the gold-painted Eaton on the cover of Life.' back

Jeff Coller (2026_06_20), The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack, 'More than a century ago, Louis Pasteur said that chance “favors only the prepared mind.” Public money pays for the trained person, the prepared mind, to be paying attention when a lucky accident happens.
There is another way science serves us that doesn’t depend on surprise. Many of our greatest victories began with a clear problem that yielded only to decades of painstaking work funded year after year.
In 1940, a child diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia was almost certain to die within months. Then a Boston pathologist named Sidney Farber showed that a drug could force the disease into temporary remission. What followed was a research effort that lasted the rest of the century.
Scientists learned to combine drugs so the leukemia could not outrun treatments. They sorted children by the molecular signature of their tumors and matched treatments accordingly. For the ones who still relapsed, they built immune cells that hunt the cancer down. Each step was small. But together, across more than 50 years of federally funded work, they turned a death sentence into roughly a nine-in-10 chance that a child with leukemia gets the opportunity to grow up. [. . .]
A single Tomahawk cruise missile runs about $3.6 million, roughly what it takes to fund one scientist’s multiyear grant. The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending. The United States ranks 13th in the amount it spends on academic research as a portion of its overall economy among nations that report spending data to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The next era of security will be biological as much as military, and every major power knows it. China made biotechnology a national priority 20 years ago. Last year a bipartisan commission created by Congress warned that the United States has only a narrow window to avoid depending on Chinese laboratories for the next generation of medicines. Starving the basic research that feeds our biotechnology, while a rival sprints ahead, is an odd way to defend a country.'x back

Laurence Chung (2026_06_20), How a prize-winning Taiwanese novel could stoke Beijing’s worries over history, ' Taiwan’s first International Booker Prize-winning novel has reignited debate over the island’s shifting identity, with its portrayal of a distinctly Taiwanese historical experience at odds with narratives long promoted by Beijing.
The attention surrounding Taiwan Travelogue comes at a sensitive time in cross-strait relations, as rival interpretations of Taiwan’s history increasingly shape public discussion over the island’s future and its relationship with mainland China.
Set in Japanese-ruled Taiwan in 1938, the novel is framed as a fictional translation and follows a Japanese novelist and her Taiwanese interpreter on a culinary journey across the island.
Through food, language, personal relationships and the unequal status between coloniser and colonised, it explores questions of power, memory and identity.
What might otherwise have remained a literary discussion has taken on greater political significance as tensions across the Taiwan Strait deepen and questions of Taiwanese identity become increasingly contested.
Beijing sees Taiwan as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary.
Most countries, including the United States, do not recognise Taiwan as an independent state, but Washington is opposed to any attempt to take the self-ruled island by force and is committed to supplying it with weapons.
The novel by Yang Shuang-zi presents the island as a society shaped by indigenous, Chinese, Japanese and local influences that evolved into something distinct from both Japan and China.
The book’s international success has amplified that message.' back

Lena H.Sun (2026_06_24_, CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal., ' A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, a leading peer-reviewed medical journal.
The analysis used the same methodology that CDC’s interim director had criticized when the paper was not allowed to be published in the weekly scientific report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study, which had been slated for publication in March in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, found that the covid-19 vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter. The findings were consistent with what researchers have found in past years, that the vaccine can help reduce the risk of severe illness in adults even after accounting for immunity from prior vaccination or infection.
“Science was never the issue,” said Michelle Barron, one of the study’s authors and senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, a nonprofit health system in Colorado. “Certainly it was within [the CDC’s] purview to keep it out, for whatever reason, but it was clearly not for scientific reasons that the study was withheld from publication in the MMWR.”
Jay Bhattacharya, CDC’s interim director, delayed publication of the study before it was subsequently not published in the MMWR at all, The Washington Post previously reported. Bhattacharya had concerns about the methods used to calculate vaccine effectiveness, a Health and Human Services spokesman said at the time.
Barron said she believed the study was not published because the findings did not support Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda that wants to limit the use of covid vaccine specifically.' back

Meinard Kuhlmann (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), Quantum Field Theory, ' Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics. In a rather informal sense QFT is the extension of quantum mechanics (QM), dealing with particles, over to fields, i.e. systems with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. (See the entry on quantum mechanics.) In the last few years QFT has become a more widely discussed topic in philosophy of science, with questions ranging from methodology and semantics to ontology. QFT taken seriously in its metaphysical implications seems to give a picture of the world which is at variance with central classical conceptions of particles and fields, and even with some features of QM.' back

People's Republic of China (2026_06_17), More Just and Equitable Global Governance: China’s Principles, Proposals and Actions: China's State Council Information Office , ' Preface
Global governance is a common endeavor that bears on the wellbeing of all humanity, and building a just and equitable global governance system is a shared vision long pursued by people from across the world.
Over 80 years ago, the United Nations (UN) was founded as a multilateral platform for countries to address international affairs through dialogue and consultation. It established international rules underpinning the rule of law, ushering in a new phase in global governance. After the Cold War, multipolarization and economic globalization began to gain momentum, and the concept of global governance grounded in coordination and cooperation was widely endorsed. In recent times, however, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism have been spreading unchecked, while deficits in peace, development, security, and trust continue to expand. Reforming and improving global governance to resolve these challenges and letting the UN play a core role have thus become a critical topic for the future of humanity.
China has always been an active participant in, contributor to, and builder of global governance. In the new era, President Xi Jinping put forward the vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity. In promoting a global governance system characterized by extensive consultation and joint contribution for shared benefit, he has called for true multilateralism to foster an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. In 2025, at a pivotal historical juncture marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Global War Against Fascism and the founding of the UN, President Xi proposed a new initiative, the Global Governance Initiative (GGI).
The GGI is designed to offer a Chinese solution to the two pressing questions of the era: what kind of global governance system should be established, and how global governance can be reformed and improved. Upon its introduction, it swiftly gained support from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, with over 60 countries joining the Group of Friends of Global Governance. The international community believes that the GGI sends a clear signal: uphold multilateralism, unite forces, and pursue a fair future. The GGI aligns with the growing trend towards greater democracy in international relations and bolsters international confidence in practicing multilateralism. It offers a clear and feasible roadmap for improving global governance, bringing valuable stability and positive energy to a turbulent world.
China has proposed the GGI to expedite the building of a more just and equitable global governance system. Resolutely upholding the UN’s authority and status is fundamental to the effective implementation of this initiative. Success will also hinge on major countries bearing a sense of responsibility, and on all nations uniting and cooperating to address deficits in peace and development. All countries should firmly uphold the international system with the UN at its core, safeguard the international order based on international law, and uphold the basic norms governing international relations underpinned by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, instead of reinventing the wheel.
The Chinese government is publishing this white paper to introduce China’s principles, proposals and actions in global governance, foster broader consensus within the international community, ensure more effective responses to global challenges, and build a more just and equitable global governance system.' back

Qiu-Hong Hu (2005_12_29), The nature of the electron, ' Through investigating history, evolution of the concept, and development in the theories of electrons, I am convinced that what was missing in our understanding of the electron is a structure, into which all attributes of the electron could be incorporated in a self-consistent way. It is hereby postulated that the topological structure of the electron is a closed two-turn Helix (a so-called Hubius Helix) that is generated by circulatory motion of a mass-less particle at the speed of light. A formulation is presented to describe an isolated electron at rest and at high speed. It is shown that the formulation is capable of incorporating most (if not all) attributes of the electron, including spin, magnetic moment, fine structure constant, anomalous magnetic moment, and charge quantization into one concrete description of the Hubius Helix. The equations for the description emerge accordingly. Implications elicited by the postulate are elaborated. Inadequacy of the formulation is discussed.' back

SCMP Editorial (2026_06_22), Unlike the US, China sees UN as the core of global governance, ' Beijing released a white paper on global governance on the same day as the signing of an agreement aimed at ending the US war on Iran. The coincidence is ironic. The white paper issued by the State Council, along with remarks at the launch by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, affirms the place of the United Nations at the core of international peace and security. But the United States has justified attacking Iran without UN support and President Donald Trump previously accused the UN of failing to live up to its potential for resolving disputes.
Lack of faith in the world body is regrettable. The UN is an established multilateral system for settling international disputes. The US was instrumental in establishing it after the second world war. Its performance has been far from perfect, but it remains the only universally recognised mechanism for preventing disputes from escalating.
In the white paper, outlining its vision for reforming the global system and upholding multilateralism, Beijing said it would continue to defend the “central” role of the UN in global governance. At the same time, it held itself out as a champion of rule-making for new frontiers, including artificial intelligence and outer space. It called for a “more just and equitable” world order as humanity navigates “dangerous waters”.
The policy document, called “More Just and Equitable Global Governance: China’s Principles, Proposals and Actions”, said China saw no need to fully rebuild or replace the existing international system but supported changes that were “more compatible and aligned” with realities today.
Unveiling the white paper at a press conference, Wang warned that the international system had been disrupted by multiple crises, leaving global governance at a critical crossroads.
“As the world enters a new period of turbulence and transformation, we need to reinvigorate multilateralism, uphold rules and the rule of law and improve the effectiveness of governance more than ever,” he said. Last year, President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Governance Initiative, calling on countries to work in concert for a more just and equitable global governance system. This year, Beijing will host international forums on global governance and AI governance.
Trump’s “America first” agenda and war on Iran cast doubt on the future of the “rules-based international order” largely supported by the West. China has championed “the international system with the UN at its core” and “the international order based on international law” – a position underlined in the white paper.' back

Sheldon Axler (2026_05_09), Linear Algebra Done Right (4th Edition), ' You are probably about to begin your second exposure to linear algebra. Unlike your first brush with the subject, which probably emphasized Euclidean spaces and matrices, this encounter will focus on abstract vector spaces and linear maps. These terms will be defined later, so don’t worry if you do not know what they mean. This book starts from the beginning of the subject, assuming no knowledge of linear algebra. The key point is that you are about to immerse yourself in serious mathematics, with an emphasis on attaining a deep understanding of the definitions, theorems, and proofs. back

The Blues Brothers, The Blues Brothers , John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are two brothers with a rockin blues band and a vision from God to save the orphanage where they grew up in one of the greatest comedies of all time. back