Clocky Invented by Gauri Nanda‚ for an industrial design class‚ then a graduate student at MIT Media Lab‚ Clocky won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics. Clocky is a brand of alarm clock with wheels‚ allowing it to move around in order to force you to awake in an attempt to find it. After earning her Masters Degree from MIT‚Gauri Nanda founded a company‚ Nanda Home‚ to commercialize this product Cloky‚ and other home products. The market for watches and clocks was bigger than $7 billion in the
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the news and the truth grew greater and investigative journalists noticed that. It was because of this that in 1963‚ television networks doubled their evening news shows and began airing prime-time investigative documentaries . In 1964‚ the Pulitzer Prize board created an annual award for investigative reporting. Also‚ the 1964 Supreme Court decision in New York Times v. Sullivan made it much more difficult for public officials being scrutinized by the press to sue successfully for libel ‚ and the Freedom
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(born October 19‚ 1899‚ Guatemala City‚ Guatemala—died June 9‚ 1974‚ Madrid‚ Spain) Guatemalan poet‚ novelist‚ and diplomat‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 (&see; Nobel Lecture: “The Latin American Novel: Testimony of an Epoch”) and the Soviet Union ’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. His writings‚ which combine the mysticism of the Maya with an epic impulse toward social protest‚ are seen as summing up the social and moral aspirations of his people. In 1923‚ after receiving his degree
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Prof. Mary Helen O’Connor ENGL 2112 Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian Nobel Prize winner for Literature‚ a cultural hero‚ and an international figure‚ Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Calcutta‚ India. Tagore speaks to an optimistic assortment of the ripened Indian custom and the new European awareness. Globally‚ Gitanjali is Tagore ’s best-known accumulation of poetry and Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali"‚ which contains the essence of an Indian artistic
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Leaning over a microscope wearing a crisp white lab coat is a biochemist developing the cure for cancer. Wearing faded blue jeans and a red polo shirt is the company information technologist fixing the company security system. An engineer designs a reusable space shuttle powered by interstellar radiation. Human computers calculate the moon landing to assure the safe arrival of the first men on the moon. Imagine a person in these positions. What did they look like? What color was their skin? Was it
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"No man’s genius‚ however shining‚ can raise him from obscurity unless he has industry‚ opportunity and also a patron to recommend him." —PLINY‚ the Younger The term ’Brain-drain’ has recently come into vogue for describing the flight of talent from our country to another. Often‚ it is loosely employed to describe all migration of educated and talented persons to countries abroad in search of better careers even though their services may be badly needed in their native land‚ and thus‚ this exodus
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Winfrey – Celebrity/Philanthropist • Florence Nightingale - Nursing • Mother Theresa - Charity • Jonas Salk - Scientist • J. Edgar Hoover – Criminal Justice • Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State‚ former First Lady • Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Peace Prize • Gabrielle Douglas – Olympic Gymnast • Martin Luther King Jr.- Civil Rights Activist • Ernesto “Che” Guevara- Revolutionary • Andy Warhol/Jackson Pollack/Norman
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Gilbert Newton Lewis Biography Gilbert Newton Lewis‚ known as “GN” by his colleagues‚ is one of the most distinguished chemists of the twentieth century. His work in thermodynamics‚ the electron pair bond‚ and acidbase theory is well known in the scientific community. Many of his biographies‚ including one in the NEACT Journal‚ 1 have presented and analyzed his scientific contributions.2‚3 Recently‚ two people have made unique contributions to a better understanding of the man and his
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THE PROPHECY of BATCH XANTHRONS It was the year 2027-the Reign of Technology in the world. The advancement of science has brought many changes. 75% of the world’s land is now industrialized. I sat in my lounge drinking champagne‚ pondering about my 30 years of existence in this world. I am currently working at the Chatham House‚ the Royal Institute for International Affairs as a Journalist. Having this job‚ I have ventured different places and met famous personalities leading the world. I was
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Filmstrips. (EX 338.19 L84) Related websites • • • • • • • • • • Natural Resources Conservation Services Envirofacts Warehouse United Nations Population Fund Natural Resources Defense Council Top United Nations Environment Programme (2007 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner) Ecological footprint and biocapacity Yearly CO2 emissions from 1800 to 2010 http://unfpa.org/ageingreport/
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