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photo: Creative Commons / Alfred Nobel University, Dnipropetrovs'k
The Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world – but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur has left a lasting legacy with the annual prizes he established in 1901 for physics , chemistry ,...
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A recent study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, challenges previous assumptions about the automatic nature of the relationship between memory and attention. The researchers found that while eye movements are attracted to information retrieved...
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A fresh look at an influential report from the 1970s has found that its predictions of global collapse within this century are looking worryingly accurate. Advertisement In 1972, a team of scientists from MIT used a computer model to look into the future of humanity after receiving a commission...
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On Saturday, 88 countries, members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) which includes France, Canada and Belgium, unanimously called for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Lebanon. "We expressed our solidarity with Lebanon. We unanimously called for an immediate and...
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Spare a thought for the factcheckers at the publisher HarperCollins. For a regular political memoir, those guardians of textual accuracy might, you imagine, raise a query perhaps half a dozen times in each chapter. In the 750-plus pages of Boris Johnson’s Unleashed, however, I’d calculate they were...
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Elon Musk reportedly used to brag about his friendship with Sean “Diddy” Combs despite recently questioning who around the disgraced music mogul knew he allegedly abused a 9-year-old and others. “I don’t know if you know this, but Puff is an investor in Twitter,” the X...
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More than 210 people are now confirmed dead after Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction through several US states, officials said Thursday, making it the second deadliest storm to hit the US mainland in more than half a century. US President Joe Biden made his second straight day of visits...
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For many jobseekers, it sometimes feels impossible to push your CV through the HR quagmire and land yourself an interview. And this process has not got any less complicated with the growing use of artificial...
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If you’re one of the many people out there suffering from chronic knee pain - and wondering why it won’t just go away - you’re not alone. Most of the folks I speak with in this situation have been told it’s simply due to arthritis, old age, or general wear and tear - and there isn’t much that can be...
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Music superstar Bruce Springsteen is throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz in the US presidential election. In a video posted to his official Instagram on Thursday, Springsteen said he...

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Usatoday | 2024-10-07
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Usatoday | 2024-10-04
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Nobel prize medal for medicine, Sweden, 1945, to Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) who discovered Penicillin. On display at the National Museum of Scotland

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Pioneer Press | 2024-10-06