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  • Cognitive Biases Are Bad for Business


    The Power of Prime — Authority Authority: 454
    The conventional wisdom in classical economics is that we humans are “rational actors." But any notion that we are, in fact, rational, was blown away by the work of Kahneman and Tversky on cognitive biases. Nowhere is this irrationality more problematic than in the corporate world where bad decisions can wreak ...
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  • Chinua Achebe Nobel prize criticised


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 986
    Soyinka, a Nobel laureate himself, also dismisses claims that Achebe was father of African literature Calls for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel prize for literature have "gone beyond sickening" and become "obscene and irreverent", Achebes fellow Nigerian author – and 1986 Nobel laureate – ...
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  • Top 10 Best American Authors Ever


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    The world has advanced and the the advancement has been at a very fast pace. There are many things which are becoming obsolete in this new technology world. But the one things which has survived this change are Books. Books still shape our society. They increase our sensitivity to common human experiences. Authors ...
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  • Feynman Day! Richard Feynman, mensch, drummer, Nobel winner, born May 11, 1918


    Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority Authority: 482
    No, we’re not joking. May 11 is the anniversary of the birth of Richard Feynman. Richard Feynman. Borrowed from Luciano’s Tumblr, LikeaPhysicist In addition to his winning the Nobel Prize for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), Feynman popularized the critique of science and other enterprises with what we now ...
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  • Ai Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility


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    In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political responsibility. From Bernhard Zand, talking to Ai Weiwei for Spiegel Online : SPIEGEL: How have you been lately? Ai: ...
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  • La sympathisante du terrorisme Mona Seif nominée pour le "Nobel des droits de lhomme


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    La nominée pour un prix des droits de lhomme s outient le meurtre disraéliens, Human Rights Watch d oit revenir sur la désignation de la sympathisante du terrorisme Genève, le 30 Avril 2013  - Le jury composé de Human Rights Watch et de neuf autres ONG a  designé   une activiste ...
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  • Al Gore’s Golden Years


    Expert in Best Gold Investment, Gold Bullion News, Opportunities, Gold Market Updates, Gold Mining, Daily — Authority Authority: 145
    The house in Nashville is gleaming white, with symmetrical wings and four twenty-foot-high Victorian columns. Under the soaring portico stands Al Gore, dressed in his casual uniform—a button-down blue dress shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots. This is Gore’s White House, a 10,000-square-foot mansion he and Tipper ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Snow from Greenland to the Future


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    Smillas Sense of Snowby Peter Høeg“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”  ― Peter Høeg, Smillas Sense of SnowDanish novelist Hegs first English-language publication moves from an intimate mystery ...
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  • A Special Tagore Anniversary


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    We are pleased to post the following by Tagore specialist Obhi Chatterjee : 7 May was the 152nd anniversary of the birth of the Bengali creative genius and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. This year is also the centenary of Tagore winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. We celebrated the occasion at Shakespeare’s ...
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  • Richard Feynman: Life, the universe and everything


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    Flowers, music, strip clubs...Richard Feynmans scientific curiosity knew no bounds, writes Christopher Riley.        
    2 weeks ago

  • Richard Feynman: Life, the universe and everything


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    Flowers, music, strip clubs...Richard Feynmans scientific curiosity knew no bounds, writes Christopher Riley.        
    2 weeks ago

  • How Saul Bellow ‘Blew It’ With the Holocaust, Changed His Tune After Six Day War


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    Saul Bellow at the Miami Book Fair International festival in 1990. Photo: MDCarchives/Wikimedia Commons. LOS ANGELES—Born in Canada into an immigrant Jewish family in 1915, Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow had a traditional Jewish upbringing, which included Torah study, Talmud, and Hebrew. Yet Rabbi David ...
    2 weeks ago

  • R.I.P. Christian de Duve


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    Last Saturday the biochemist Christian de Duve died in his home in Nethen, Belgium. His health had deteriorated and a few weeks ago he decided to request euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium. In 1974, Christian de Duve received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine together with Albert Claude and George E. ...
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  • Test Tube Chandelier by Pani Jurek


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    Pin It Pani Jurek has created a funky new chandelier with test tubes. Dubbed the Maria S.C. lamp, it’s inspired by Maria Sklodowska-Curie’s cutting edge work in the field of Chemistry. Marie Curie, as she is more commonly know, was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of radium and polonium. The Maria ...
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  • ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTES. NELSON MANDELA


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    Nelson Mandela quotes about the environment is about water and the absence of access to clean water. At the moment about 95% of the worlds water supply is controlled by cash-strapped local authorities, but a handful of international companies are being brought in by governments to manage cities water supplies.
    3 weeks ago

  • Nominal GDP Targeting is Left, Right?


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    The recent surge in interest in Nominal GDP Targeting , as an alternative to money targeting or inflation targeting if the central bank is to commit to a nominal target of some sort, has prompted some pushback.   This is not surprising.  But one of the responses is most peculiar.  This is the allegation (1) that ...
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  • 5 Reasons To Be Excited For Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice


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    The definitive Paul Thomas Anderson  resource, Cigarettes and Red Vines , announced recently that PTA has begun to meet with actors to cast his upcoming film, Inherent Vice .   This announcement comes on the heels of the news that Joaquin Phoenix has replaced Robert Downey Jr. , who originally had been ...
    3 weeks ago

  • The Nonsense Of Biofuels: Thoughts From A Nobel Prize Winner


    AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority Authority: 148
    Prof. Hartmut Michel calls for resources used in biofuel production to be used instead to harvest solar energy with photovoltaic cells.
    3 weeks ago

  • The Coolest Film in the World (Still a Better Love Story Than Twilight)


    Girl in Clouds: Adventures in Science — Authority Authority: 99
    IBM is pretty cool. As part of their ongoing research into data storage based on single atoms, they’ve made the world’s tiniest film. It’s called ‘A Boy and his Atom’. It uses a handful of carbon atoms (a  figurative handful of carbon atoms, obviously). A few dozen individual atoms to create a little ...
    3 weeks ago

  • The Asian Scientist Spotlight: 2012 Nobel Laureate Dr. Shinya Yamanaka


    AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority Authority: 148
    During a recent visit to Singapore, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka candidly discussed his early career, what inspires him, and the challenges he faced leading up to the 2012 Nobel Prize.
    3 weeks ago

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