The Cool Japan project (MIT-Harvard). "Love and War in Japanese Popular Culture" conference:
http://web.mit.edu/condry/www/cooljapan/CJ07/
(via the mailing list of the MIT Anime Club)
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Tutorials on forcing
A Cheerful Introduction to Forcing, Kenny Easwaran
Forcing for dummies, Timothy Y. Chow
via http://archernikov.livejournal.com/32319.html
Update: A small piece of the "forcing story": Skolem's paradox -- a powerset of a countable set is uncountable, so the existence of a countable model of formal set theory seems to yield a paradox.
