Derek Jarman’s Tempest, William Shakespeare’s Salò

Voice and Agency in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Aimé Césaire's Une TempÃate

Derek J

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A Scientific Tempest

The Magnus-Derek game

We introduce a new combinatorial game between two players: Magnus and Derek. Initially, a token is placed at position 0 on a round table with n positions. In each round of the game Magnus chooses the number of positions for the token to move, and Derek decides in which direction, + (clockwise) or − (counterclockwise), the token will be moved. Magnus aims to maximize the total number of position...

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...