讀過Eco 博士論文的英譯本，很感動（約三十多年前），探討中世紀著名神學家阿逵諾的美之概念The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, revised)。最近，他生前的著作“米蘭報告”有中譯，稍微讀一下，知道他過去數十年仍在想這方向，只是外務多，一直無法成書。但是，他毅力強，終於還是寫出來。Umberto Eco 《米蘭報告》 On the Shoulders of Giants: A collection of essays based on lectures given at the Milanesiana Festival
- Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (1956 – English translation: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, revised)
我到‘’山外‘’去訂一本。不料手癢，又買千元閑書。可補償的是，與老闆聊天很長，談到日本與中國為何西化速度差異如此大……為何過去許多農民不願意納稅，所以田產‘’寄‘’在他人名下……
Umberto Eco by Elisabetta Catalano.
(Reposted via @so_contrary)
Umberto Eco was an Italian philosopher, essayist, and writer who gave lectures in Milan and was based in the city. His lectures at the Milanesiana Festival were collected into the book On the Shoulders of Giants, which explores themes such as the origins of language and Western culture. - On the Shoulders of Giants: A collection of essays based on lectures given at the Milanesiana Festival. The essays explore themes such as the origins of language and Western culture, the nature of beauty, and the power of conspiracies.
- The Name of the Rose: A novel published in 1980 that was adapted into a film starring Sean Connery in 1986.
- Foucault's Pendulum: A novel set in Milan that was published in 1989.
- The Prague Cemetery: An international best-selling novel.
- Eco was also a translator, translating Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style into Italian.
- Eco was a semiotician who developed a theory of signs based on the work of Peirce.
- Eco was a critic of multimedia and hypertexts, believing that they added nothing to the cultural value of a work.
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賀 詩人零雨獲得第9屆美國「紐曼華語文學獎」（Newman Prize for Chinese Literature）
這項大獎自2008年設立以來，致力於表彰卓越的華語文學創作。零雨成為繼楊牧、朱天心、張貴興之後，第4位獲此殊榮的臺灣作家，為臺灣文學在國際舞臺上再添光輝
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零雨以精湛的詩藝與作品獲得此次獎項的肯定。提名人倫敦大學亞非學院教授Cosima Bruno指出，零雨的詩作展現出「自由奔放且巧妙的抒情風格」，並以精緻優雅的古典風格，巧妙地交織了當代主題與個人經驗。
詩集《女兒》，是2022年臺灣文學獎金典獎的得獎作品，評審團一致認為詩人以敏銳而又冷靜自持的文字，直指世間女性生存的掙扎與其斑斑履跡。其中掙扎是對父系話語的抵抗與逃脫，也是對完整自我的追求和追尋。而女性同時作為生命可能的載體，母性的追索與延展，也成為詩人筆下女性自我探索的重要脈絡。該作品正進行外譯中。
零雨畢業於臺灣大學中文系、美國威斯康辛大學東亞語文研究所碩士。1991年哈佛大學訪問學者。曾任《國文天地》副總編輯、《現代詩》主編，並為《現在詩》創社發起人之一。著有詩集《城的連作》、《消失在地圖上的名字》、《特技家族》、《木冬詠歌集》、《關於故鄉的一些計算》、《我正前往你》、《田園╱下午五點四十九分》《膚色的時光》、《女兒》等，也翻譯美國詩人Fiona Sze-Lorrain的詩集《無形之眼》。
國立臺灣文學館 National Museum of Taiwan Literature
紀念Howard Hodgkin；How India inspired Howard Hodgkin；collection comes to auction
Howard Hodgkin: ‘One of the Greatest Painters of the Last 50 Years’
漢清講堂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhW88IRFk_k
ChungChih Li解嚴前林正杰指控國民黨議員超貸，被以毀謗罪判刑1年6個月，林正杰拒不上訴，入監前舉辦「坐監惜別會」，在戒嚴法下展開一連串的街頭抗爭，當時非常震撼人心。那是1986年的事。
林正杰坐了1年6個月的黑牢，出獄時民進黨已創立，國民黨也順勢解嚴，台灣朝著民主國家的方向大步邁進，30多年來已成為亞洲第一民主國；而當年的街頭小霸王卻從出獄後就一路墮落，現在的頭銜是前統促黨主席，而他已多年不見的公開演講，竟然是在聲援貪汙犯、煽惑群眾燒掉地檢署。這樣活著，真是對自己最殘忍的事，比當年的國民黨還嚴酷。
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前綠營人士聲援釘孤枝活動 林正杰嗆「燒掉地檢署」
-----一次咖啡休息時的偶然相遇使人們發現塑膠可以像金屬一樣導電。
1970 年代初，日本化學家白川英樹發現可以用新方法合成一種名為聚乙炔的有機聚合物和塑膠。當他不小心添加了過多的催化劑時，白川驚訝地發現出現了一層美麗的銀色薄膜。
在世界的另一端，化學家艾倫·麥克迪亞米德 (Alan MacDiarmid) 和物理學家艾倫·希格 (Alan Heeger) 正在試驗一種具有金屬外觀的無機聚合物氮化硫薄膜。 MacDiarmid 在東京的一次研討會上提到了這一點，當時又發生了另一件令人高興的意外；麥克迪亞米德在喝咖啡休息時遇見了白川。
當麥克迪亞米德聽說白川發現了一種像銀一樣閃閃發光的塑膠時，他邀請白川到費城的賓州大學學習。他們著手透過用碘蒸氣進行氧化來改質聚乙炔。白川知道氧化過程中光學特性會發生變化，麥克迪亞米德建議他們請希格爾觀察一下這些薄膜。 Heeger 的一名學生測量了碘摻雜反式聚乙炔的電導率，然後——發現了！導電性提高了一千萬倍！
1977 年夏天，Heeger、MacDiarmid、Shirakawa 和同事發表了他們的發現：可以製造導電聚合物（本質上是可以導電的塑膠），可用於電子和其他應用。
他們的突破為他們贏得了2000 年諾貝爾化學獎，現在，導電聚合物已廣泛用於日常電子設備，包括手機、太陽能電池，並用於柔性、可穿戴生物感測器、神經電極和醫療保健中的藥物輸送系統。
了解更多：https://www.nobelprize.org/....../2000/popular-information/
A chance meeting during a coffee break led to the discovery that plastic can be made to behave like a metal by conducting electricity.
“這真是一個好問題，你應該會享受它幾個月甚至幾年！”
物理學獎得主索爾·珀爾馬特講述科學研究的現實。
不要錯過我們在悉尼諾貝爾獎對話中與珀爾馬特的完整討論：https://bit.ly/3Z3qMLi
#諾貝爾獎
"A really good problem, you should be enjoying it for months or years!"
Physics laureate Saul Perlmutter speaks about the reality of doing science.
【新書上市│《惡世界裡的抒情──清末民初詩學研究》】
遭逢三千年未有之大變局，清末文士們被迫成為民國之遺民，在現代╱惡世界的情境裡，為何還要抒情（寫詩）？本書擇定樊增祥、沈曾植、易順鼎、王國維等個案，緒論則及於陳三立──他們的抒情自我分別呈現出樂、哭、怒、悲、慟等的精神癥狀，詩歌裡滿溢著「現代的感覺」，堪堪表現出「不壓抑的現代性」。抒情是風雲時代激盪下的天風海濤之曲，也是詩人感官情意昇華的抒情靈視，更是見證苦難的幽咽怨斷之音，成為賴以傳世的幽微心曲―詩是危機狀態下的語言。
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《惡世界裡的抒情──清末民初詩學研究》◎曾守仁 著
At the beginning of the 1970s, Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa discovered that it was possible to synthesise an organic polymer, and type of plastic, called polyacetylene in a new way. When he accidentally added too much catalyst, Shirakawa was surprised when a beautiful silvery film appeared.
In another part of the world, chemist Alan
MacDiarmid and physicist Alan Heeger were experimenting with a metallic-looking film of the inorganic polymer sulphur nitride. MacDiarmid referred to this at a seminar in Tokyo when another happy accident occurred; MacDiarmid met Shirakawa during a coffee break.
When MacDiarmid heard about Shirakawa’s discovery of a plastic that also gleamed like silver, he invited Shirakawa to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They set about modifying polyacetylene by oxidation with iodine vapour. Shirakawa knew that the optical properties changed in the oxidation process and MacDiarmid suggested that they ask Heeger to take a look at the films. One of Heeger’s students measured the conductivity of the iodine-doped trans-polyacetylene and – eureka! The conductivity had increased ten million times!
In the summer of 1977, Heeger, MacDiarmid, Shirakawa and co-workers, published their discovery that it is possible to make conductive polymers – essentially plastic that can conduct electricity – that can be used in electronics and other applications.
Their breakthrough earned them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 and now, conducting polymers are in everyday electronic devices including our phones, solar cells and are used for flexible, wearable biosensors, neural electrodes and drug delivery systems in healthcare.
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