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Logo for the upcoming Big Dance  at Stanford:

Now that Bo Xilai has been removed as Party Secretary of Chongqing, some bozo has meme-ified it and written a Goldman Sachs-style resignatio...

The blogosphere is abuzz about the Goldman Sachs employee who resigned after watching the company's culture descend into sheer profiteer...

These "cinemagraphs" are pretty cool -- a different format for images, perhaps a new medium for visual communication. (See this de...

Come celebrate the Lantern Festival, which marks the end of the Lunar New Year holidays. Enjoy booths serving almond jelly, boba and mochi,...

Important statement about (modern) American society from David Brooks in his latest column . Social support and community building are crit...

Don't piss off the choreographer by being late -- otherwise, he might turn into Dakota Stanley!

Michael Tippett's "Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli" Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli by Royal Philharmo...

Huntsman Says He's Quitting G.O.P. Race thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he inten...

China’s President Pushes Back Against Western Culture www.nytimes.com "In an essay published this week in a Communist Party policy ...

Be proud of us! Eric and I cleaned the apartment. Too bad we didn't take before/after photos, or document things in process -- we were ...

Stanford announced today that it is dropping out of the competition to build a new engineering campus in New York City. The Board of Trustee...

An article on innovation and technical advance in China: Power in Numbers: China Aims for High-Tech Primacy This appended note was hilar...

Finland is a pretty amazing place! This article in The New York Times raises some neat strategies the Fins use to achieve high-performing bu...

I don't know if this information is public yet, so don't leak it to others; but the funniest part of the Steering Committee meeting ...

The education of Bo Guagua (son of Chongqing mayor and rising star in the CCP Bo Xilai): At age 12, he attended the British prep school Pa...

Hi folks: We live in a democracy, a system of government based on tolerance, pluralism and political compromise. If we don't wake up a...

In the run-up to COP17, the British Embassy in China is holding a postcard design competition and soliciting entries from the public. There...

The undermining of democracy in Italy. Tragic! Even in Europe we need to be on guard against democratic decay. Features that Huntington and ...

Yes, "smart" is better than "ignorant." But I'd prefer someone far-sighted and grounded, rather than merely clever, ...