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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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Climate and Conflict
Purple sea urchins

A Prickly Situation

The Importance of Elders

‘Out of the Starting Gate’

Making the Grade

The Higgs Discovery at 10
Playwright Idris Goodwin

New Plays Promise Laughs and Substance

Keeping the Energy in the Room

What’s Your Score?
Concept illustration depicts highly mobile electrons moving across the polymer

Flexing the Power of a Conductive Polymer

The Star That Survived a Supernova

A Flicker From the Dark
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