Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Donna Strickland, from Canada, was awarded today the Prize for her outstanding contributions in the field of laser physics. In case you wonder, Mrs. Strickland is the third woman EVER to get such honour. Before her, only Marie Curie (1903) and…
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…. or, to be more precise, to their investigators. As announced today, October 6, on the official webpage, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations,…
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Shikasta (1979) by Doris Lessing is a speculative fiction novel. The book is the first of the series Canopus in Argos, and portraits the final days of our planet. The title is actually the name of a stricken and war-ridden Earth that…
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