Steve Wen Terry Yarra … happy 6 and 5
Notable and interesting journalism for your weekend
The Twelve review – Australian courtroom drama is tepidly interesting
HAPPY 119TH BIRTHDAY: On this day in 1903, Eric Arthur Blair, better known to us as George Orwell, was born in Motihari, Bengal, British India.
Finnegans Wakes review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Patrick O'Neill's Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation, recently from the University of Toronto Press
Are Legal Lessons Learned In The Trenches More Valuable Than Those Learned In Law School?
Discovery of ‘hidden world’ under Antarctic ice has scientists ‘jumping for joy’ Lve Science
Markets Are Losing the Anchor of a GenerationBloomberg. The deck: “Inflation has undermined the credibility of central banks. That explains how bond yields can be rising even as recession fears mount.”
TURNING JAPANESE; I THINK WE’RE TURNING JAPANESE — I REALLY THINK SO: New York state officials are giving companion robots to more than 800 senior citizens to help combat loneliness.
Classical allusion in headline: Aging Japan: Robots may have role in future of elder care.
Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft – Liza Vertinsky and Yaniv Heled, are law professors who study how emerging technologies like genetic sequencing are regulated. They believe that growing public interest in genetics has increased the likelihood that genetic paparazzi with DNA collection kits may soon become as ubiquitous as ones with cameras. While courts have for the most part managed to evade dealing with the complexities of surreptitious DNA collection and testing of public figures, they won’t be able to avoid dealing with it for much longer. And when they do, they are going to run squarely into the limitations of existing legal frameworks when it comes to genetics.
Annual rankings return Austria’s capital to first place, as former title-holder Auckland tumbles to 34th and Ukraine war sees eastern cities slump
Marie Darrieussecq Q & A
In the Hindustan Times Arunima Mazumdar has a Q & A with the author, in ‘I was reborn as a writer’ - Marie Darrieussecq, author, Pig Tales.
New to me re. Pig Tales: "Jean-Luc Godard bought the novel rights as soon as it came out, in September 1996". (But, yeah, it didn't work out.)
