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19 days ago by atowhee

Two Princeton scientists have just won a major international science prize. Their subject: the evolution of beak morphology among the different, though closely related, finch species in the Galapagos. Those very same finch species in the early 19th Century inspired a young visditor named Charles Dar ...

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19 days ago by Nagraj

The script could not have got any better than this for the Grant’s who spent major part of their life studying Darwin finches evolutionary responses to environmental changes on islands of Galapagos. In this special year of evolution which celebrates 200th year of Darwin’s Birth and 150 years of publ ...

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20 days ago by Classical Music

David Goldman for The New York TimesPierre Boulez conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in March.The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez will be among the winners of the Kyoto Prize, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation in Japan to recognize “contributions to the sci ...

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20 days ago by Classical Music

David Goldman for The New York TimesPierre Boulez conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in March.The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez will be among the winners of the Kyoto Prize, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation in Japan to recognize “contributions to the sci ...

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20 days ago by Classical Music

David Goldman for The New York TimesPierre Boulez conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in March.The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez will be among the winners of the Kyoto Prize, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation in Japan to recognize “contributions to the sci ...

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107 days ago by admin

Richard Karp, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at University of California, Berkeley, received the 2008 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computational complexity. He gave a presentation at San Diego State Universi ...

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