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Oddities in the Green Dam filtered words list

Fang Zhouzi discovers that Green Dam filters anti-filth, anti-cult phrases. Also, the Green Dam Girl makes a splash on the Internet.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-12

Inflation hits a high, iPhones come to China, and an anti-fraud crusader gets a talking-to.

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Big numbers for a book signing

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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Pseudoscience in four glorious colors

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) threatened to commit suicide if his Laozi-based proof of the Four Color Theorem was wrong. Turns out it is. Also, Liu Zihua’s Eight Trigrams Cosmology (八卦宇宙学理) as an example of the relationship of traditional Chinese culture to modern science.

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Chinese medicine strikes back at critics

Ma Youdu from the China Association of Chinese Medicine wants to teach Chinese medicine in schools.

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Water? I’ll need to see some ID.

Some opinion pieces on water conservation in Beijing.

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Moonstruck: Fallout from the Mid-Autumn Festival

Traditional dress on the Moon Festival, mooncake pricing problems, and Zhang Gongyao’s initiative to junk the lunar calendar.

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A theorem, a crank, and a duel to the death

Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) and anti-fraud activist Fang Zhouzi (方舟子) square off in a duel to the death over the four color problem (四色难题).

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Peking University’s fake sea turtles

Qiu Chengtong (丘成桐) accuses Peking University of faking its list of overseas faculty.

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Democracy in America, and intellectual imperialism

Two satirical essays: ‘Why implementing democracy is not appropriate for America’ and a criticism of Michael Jensen’s plagiarism accusations agains Renmin University’s Yang Ruilong, translated from a 新语丝 post.

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