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Mathematics
Here’s How to Teach Yourself Physics and Math
futurism.com
Physics and Mathematics are extremely important subjects. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. Physics and Mathematics allow us to peer out …
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Marie Curie
10 Amazing Women In History Who Changed The World Forever
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Our World Wouldn’t Be The Same Without Them If Helen of Troy had launched thousands of ships, these amazing women have left their imprints in our …
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Happiness
What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most?
Harvard Business Review - Cassie Mogilner Holmes
Sure, everyone wants to be happy. But what kind of happiness do people want? Is it happiness experienced moment-to-moment? Or is it being able to look back and remember a time as happy? Nobel Prize winner
MarketWatch
Puerto Rico
Economists including Stiglitz recommend up to 73% Puerto Rico debt write-down
MarketWatch - By Francine McKenna
Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says Puerto Rico’s current debt position is “unsustainable” and has an idea how much debt relief is …
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Catholicism
War between science and religion is far from inevitable
The Conversation UK - David N Livingstone and John Hedley Brooke
In his 2015 book Faith versus Fact, the biologist and polemicist Jerry Coyne launched one of his many attacks on religion in the name of science: …
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Quantum Mechanics
There Is No "Real" Universe. Now What?
SFGate - Deepak Chopra, Special to SFGate
By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD More than six decades after Einstein's death in 1955, his prestige is enormous and worrisome. It is enormous because relativity remains tremendously important
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Business (Australia)
The gender qualification gap: women 'over-invest' in workplace capabilities
theconversation.com - Leonora Risse
It took a Nobel Prize before Canadian physicist Donna Strickland got promoted to a full professorship. As anecdotal evidence that women have to prove …
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Swedish Academy
Outsiders, Academy Members to Pick Nobel Literature Winners
newsmax.com - JAN M. OLSEN
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Only half of those who choose the winners of next year's Nobel Prize in literature will be members of the scandal-rocked …
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Tech Trends
The 65 Best Inventions of the Past 65 Years
Popular Mechanics - By Popular Mechanics Editors
Between the 1950s and today, scientific and technological innovations have revolutionized the lives we lead, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. These are the most impactful inventions of
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Yellowstone National Park
Cancer-killing virus could deliver instructions that unmask tumours and prevent disease returning, study finds
independent.co.uk - Alex Matthews-King
1/18 Baby mice tears could be used in pest control 2/18 Final warning to limit "climate catastrophe" 3/18 Nobel prize for evolution chemists 4/18 Nobel …
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World News
Nobel literature body rejigs committee after sex scandal
Reuters - by Johan Ahlander and Johan Sennero
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The body that picks the winner of the annual Nobel Prize in Literature is setting up a new selection committee in a bid to draw a line under a sex scandal that forced it to cancel
Quartz
Wombat’s cubed-shaped poop could solve a manufacturing mystery
Quartz - By Katherine Ellen Foley
In the manufacturing world, there are only two ways to make a cube. Either you cut the six-sided shape you want out of a larger chunk of material, or, if the material is soft enough, you mold it. Wombats,
Liberal View
Republicans have managed to unified rural white voters -- while scaring away everyone else
rawstory.com - www.rawstory.com
If there was one demographic group that blunted the force of the “blue wave” in this month’s midterm elections, it was rural white voters. Even as …
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Duke University
Bending light around tight corners without backscattering losses
phys.org - Ken Kingery
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to …
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UN Security Council
West clashes with Russia, China over OPCW chemical arms watchdog
DW News - DW English
The US and the UK have accused Moscow and Beijing of trying to stall the OPCW's new ability to attribute blame for chemical attacks. Both sides …
Magnetism
‘Magnetic topological insulator’ makes its own magnetic field
rice.edu - Jade Boyd
A Rice University-based team of physicists has found the first evidence of a two-dimensional material that can serve as a magnetic topological …
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Science
The Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited
scientificamerican.com - Brett Frischmann
Fifty years ago, in December, 1968, Garrett Hardin published his seminal article “The Tragedy of the Commons” in Science. The article has been …
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World News
Netanyahu, victorious, says coalition to stay intact for another year
jpost.com - Lahav Harkov
“I told coalition party leaders not to topple the coalition,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Likud faction meeting. “They need to show …
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Opinion
Paul Romer: The Path To Economic Growth And Innovation
Forbes - Kate Vitasek
Business professionals can learn a valuable lesson about the path to economic growth and innovation from Paul Romer, this year’s Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences (shared with William Nordhaus).
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Conservative View
Prufrock: Ancient Trojan City, the End of the Kilogram, and How to Win a Nobel
The Weekly Standard - Micah Mattix
The kilogram is dead. Long live the kilogram. “After a vote (and a century of research), the standard measure for mass is redefined.” (HT: Gary …
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Lifestyle (UK)
BBC 100 Women 2018: The trailblazing women we should all get to know
independent.co.uk - Sarah Young
BBC 100 Women has revealed its list of 100 influential women from around the world for 2018. From #MeToo to Northern Ireland’s abortion vote and the …
Immune System
Study: New peanut allergy treatment could save kids' lives
bigthink.com
• The trial included hundreds of participants with peanut allergies. • The oral regimen contained trace amounts of peanut protein, and participants would …
Bob Dylan
Features | Craft/Work | Don't Think Twice, It's All Wrong: Bob Dylan, Sunday Painter
thequietus.com - Jude Cowan Montague , November 17th, 2018 10:59
A former Bob Dylan fan looks on aghast at the wretched misery of the man's visual art, currently on display at Halcyon Gallery, London On New Bond …
Los Angeles
OPINION: Californians Aren’t Embracing Sound Rent Control Policy Quite Yet
dailycaller.com - Kerry Jackson | Contributor
2:01 PM 11/19/2018 | Opinion California voters earlier this month firmly rejected a proposition that would have repealed the state’s restrictions on …
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Africa
'Get working again': Nigeria's Abubakar launches poll campaign
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
A record 79 candidates are in the race for the Nigerian presidential election scheduled in February. Abuja, Nigeria - Nigeria's main opposition leader Atiku Abubakar has vowed to get the country "working
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Qubits
Quantum Computing: Atomic Clocks Make for Longer-Lasting Qubits
ieee.org - Mark Anderson
Cesium atoms and laser traps offer a more robust type of quantum computer Image: Weiss Laboratory/Penn State Bright Qubits: Lasers hold cesium atoms …
Sweden
Stockholm police bomb squad probe 'loud bang' at Mariatorget apartments
thelocal.se - www.thelocal.se
Police were called out to the building at the Mariatorget square on Södermalm at 3.37am after receiving reports from people hearing "a sound …
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Russian Polymath Mikhail Lomonosov
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Mikhail Lomonosov (1711 – 1765) On November 19, 1711, Russian polymath, scientist and writer Mikhail Lomonosov was born. Lomonosov made important …
Aung San Suu Kyi
Time to Course-Correct, Aung San Suu Kyi
thediplomat.com - Jieun Pyun, The Diplomat
In November 2015, Myanmar’s civilian government and leader Aung San Suu Kyi took office after her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), …
Education (UK)
Female teachers plagued by 'imposter syndrome' head warns
tes.com - By Caroline Henshaw
Women are under-represented as school leaders and many female teachers are plagued by “imposter syndrome”, the president of the Girls’ Schools …