15 JANUARY 2016

Did you know that in 1966 an MIT professor studying artificial intelligence developed ELIZA, a program he named after you-know-who? You can read one of his original papers on the subject HERE.
It seems that Shaw is getting back in the syllabi worldwide. The Universität zu Köln offers a course on "Drama and Evolution: George Bernard Shaw’s Discussion Plays at the Philosophische Fakultät .
The Gene Tunney Park (Speculator, NY) has been added to GeoShaw.
Debate on Birth Control – 1921. The last 15 pages of this little book contain an epistolar - and partially vicarious - debate between Theodore Roosevelt and George Bernard Shaw.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell speaks on the art of acting.
The New York Times article reporting Shaw's radio debut (1924). Here is the full text (0380), together with many other articles published by/on Shaw in the same newspaper.
Did you know that Simone de Beauvoir quotes Shaw twice in her famous The Second Sex (pp. 33 and 161)? Both very interesting.

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