Midway through one of my political science courses at the University of Alberta, my professor pulled me aside for a chat after class.  ...

Ever since Bruce and Leslie asked me how many books I thought I read in a year, I've felt an increasingly overwhelming urge to catalogu...

Yesterday would have been Carl Sagan 's 77th birthday. My first exposure to Sagan came, as it did for so many others, through his PBS ...

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This article was originally published in a 1998 issue of Singapore's The Peak magazine, which explains the dated references to the ...

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In early 1997, at the urging of my friend Parvesh Bal, I finally submitted a piece of writing to a publisher - and it sold! My first artic...

Originally published in The Peak, Volume 14, Number 9 September, 1998 This year, Germans and lovers of the theatre all over the world are...