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  • Extremophiles: Tardigrades

    Out of this world While adaptation to a single harsh habitat is impressive, there are species which can survive a variety: the rarer polyextremophiles. Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are tiny, eight legged animals which can survive extremes of heat and cold, low pressure and even high levels of radiation. They have even survived…

  • Finnegans Wake Takes off in China

    Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ Takes Off in China By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW …Here in China, the first four pages of Chapter 9, “Scylla and Charybdis,” are read by Dai Congrong in Shanghai (there will also be a reading in Beijing) — though the translator of Joyce’s most difficult work, “Finnegans Wake,” says her contribution was prerecorded…

  • Once lost now found James Joyce to see daylight

    James Joyce’s ‘last undiscovered’ collection to be published Ten ‘epiclets’ written after Ulysses in 1923, have been published together for the first time, causing a rift among scholars as to how they fit in to the Joyce canon “Penned by Joyce in 1923, and described by the author as “epiclets”, the pieces range from vignettes…

  • Finnegans Wake: what it’s all about by Anthony Burgess

    In Joyce annihilation becomes “abnihilisation”-the creation of new life ab nihilo, from the egg of nothing.–Anthony Burgess.http://www.metaportal.com.br/jjoyce/burgess1.htm