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As we welcome the Lunar New Year of the Horse, a classic Japanese tale of blind idealism reminds us of the dangers of unmanaged technology
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An excerpt from Lafcadio Hearn's "Gleanings in Buddha Fields," from 1897
A Square sees beyond his Flatland. Can you?
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