2024

Podcast

Nobel Prize Conversations “When we remember, what we’re doing is just making up a story that sounds plausible to us. That’s what memories are.” Join podcast host Adam Smith as he speaks to physicist Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of AI. They discuss Hinton’s childhood memories and how his family legacy of successful scientists…

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Banquet speech

Korean Han Kang’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. 여덟 살 때의 어느 날을 기억합니다.주산학원의 오후 수업을 마치고 나오자마자 소나기가 퍼붓기 시작했습니다. 맹렬한 기세여서, 이십여 명의 아이들이 현관 처마 아래 모여 서서 비가 그치길 기다렸습니다. 도로 맞은편에도 비슷한 건물이 있었는데, 마치 거울을 보는 듯 그 처마 아래에서도 수십 명의 사람들이 나오지 못하고…

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Speed read

The Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. Full name: Nihon HidankyoNative name: Nihon HidankyoFounded: 10 August 1956Date awarded: 11 October 2024 Important memory work Since its…

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Every year, the new Nobel Prize laureates are asked to donate objects with special meanings, to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. Here the 2024 Nobel Prize laureates tell the stories behind their chosen objects. “It helped me to write on” Han Kang donated a teacup to the Nobel Prize Museum along with her routines…

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