LINKS:
Marcus Levine
Art Daily
Telegraph
Culture 24
Google Profile
Via: Online Schools
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BEIJING — Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly on Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human rights activists said.
It was the 13th time Mr. Liao had been prevented from leaving the country. The Associated Press reported that he had been placed under house arrest after being questioned by security agents for four hours.
“How can this happen?” the news service quoted him as saying. “It’s a cultural event, nothing political. Such drama!”
LINKS:
NY Times: Asia Pacific
Wikipedia: Liao Yiwu
BBC Interview on YouTube (2008)
Telegraph
Washington Post
Huffington Post
“Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and discovered the shot lengths in the more recent movies followed the same mathematical pattern that describes the human attention span. The pattern was derived by scientists at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1990s who studied the attention spans of subjects performing hundreds of trials. The team then converted the measurements of their attention spans into wave forms using a mathematical technique known as the Fourier transform.”
LINKS:
PhysOrg
Popular Science
New Scientist
Telegraph
James Cutting
“Attention & the Evolution of Hollywood Film” (PDF)
Here’s a brief follow-up from Andrew Revkin on the NY Times’ ‘Dot Earth’ Blog: “Views on China’s Role in the Greenhouse.”
President Obama interviewed on PBS’s Newshour (notice the quote about “…the Chinese representatives essentially skipping the negotiations…”:
According to this Telegraph report, Ed Miliband, the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, holds no punches in assigning blame: “Copenhagen climate summit: Ed Miliband accuses China of ‘hijacking’ conference”
A very rushed Franny Armstrong interview with Ed Miliband on Age of Stupid TV:
Article from conservative commentator Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of the Australian: “Don’t Look to Beijing for Global Leadership.”
LINKS:
Mark Lynas’ Blog
Wikipedia: Greg Sheridan
Wikipedia: Andrew Revkin
Wikipedia: Ed Miliband
Age of Stupid
Wikipedia: Franny Armstrong