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So here goes: the lab I work in specializes in making thin pieces of gel—slightly thinner than contact lenses, with about the same size and consistency—that change colors in the presence of different materials. I’m attempting to create a sensor that...
Start on the third floor of the National Gallery of Victoria's Ian Potter Centre, where 46 artists can be witnessed in relatively traditional white-walled spaces (though this being Federation Square, there are no right angles). Here Adelaide sculptor Andrew Best's huge-scale replica of the '80s video...
The Chinese leadership has not yet admitted that truth. But it is beginning to see the wisdom of looking to other countries' experiences in making the transition to modernity. In a speech last month to a closed-door session of the Communist Party leadership, President Hu Jintao said that the...
Rolling along in a pink tour van across the country she and her husband once ruled under martial law, resplendent in an aquamarine dress, Imelda Marcos explains how she has managed to survive her many ordeals. "Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and...
Yet joy--cheekily comic, indefatigably romantic--is what Cole Porter was all about, whatever tests and traumas he endured. We need to see that unlikely triumph, maybe especially at this moment. Watching him stumble glumly to his grave is not an entertaining--or useful--alternative. --By Richard Schickel