38 days ago by Charles KTLIT

KTLIT's Official Mascot: Fighting! An interesting transcript of an interview with Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago) which took places at the Asia Institute Seminar at the conclusion of December 2011. This is from Emanuel Pastreich‘s blog Korea: Circles an ...

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39 days ago by Clay Dillow

Quasicrystals Within this chunk of mineral unearthed in Russia's Koryak mountains are crystalline structures that likely originated in space and were delivered to Earth via meteorite, a new study claims. Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University Rare crystals found in Russia were likely deposited there ...

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40 days ago by michaelmagras

No matter how many of them I read, a novel about Apartheid South Africa is always a sobering experience. Age of Iron, a 1990 novel by Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, is one of the most powerful works of its kind. Coetzee has written more brutal novels— Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace are not fo ...

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41 days ago by mist

As a country, politically and scientifically, we have not much to be proud of,looking forward to 2012. But i think, the news of knighthood to Venkataraman Ramakrishnan captured every ones attention. Most of us didn’t even know this man and the fact that he got Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009. Knigh ...

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44 days ago by Science Made Fun!

This year was another remarkable year in science, with space shuttles retiring and new particles being detected (perhaps). Some of these top discoveries could very well have an immediate effect on our lives. The impact of others may not be felt for years. Some discoveries may vanish altogether. But ...

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44 days ago by Alan Niederman, MD, FACC, FACP

As 2011 draws to a close, I thought we could review some of the highlights and low lights that the year has brought us. But first, I need to alert my readers to an important albeit discouraging article written by Tara Parker-Pope in the New York Times yesterday. Ms. Pope is the editor of their Welln ...

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45 days ago by yogita

The account behind maybe the best recipe ever created in finance: the Black-Scholes-Merton alternatives pricing model. Two of its creators were granted the Nobel Prize in Economic science in 1997. A yr. later their hedge fund Long Term capital Management (LTCM) had fallen in with stupefying losses o ...

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46 days ago by Mister E

Graphene is going to be the 'it' material of the 21st century Or at least that is what George Osborne hopes. After two Manchester University scientists, Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim, won the 2010 Nobel prize for physics for their graphene research, the chancellor announced in the autumn that ...

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47 days ago by erickoch

A milestone posting – number 600. Last week, the University of Toronto reminded readers of The Globe and Mail that among its ten graduates who received the Nobel Prize were Walter Kaufmann and John Pollanyi. Kaufmann was the co-winner of … Continue reading →

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47 days ago by Ann Marquez

… that is the question The following is an excerpt of Ernest Hemingway’s acceptance speech for The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954. ~~ As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1954, the speech was read by John C. Cabot, United States A ...

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