Nobel Prize

Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/CVovLIjOsL4 Interview with the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Kip S. Thorne answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Why did you decide to become a physicist? – What do you enjoy…

Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/qUAB3Zn4bK0 Interview with Physics Laureate Rainer Weiss on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Rainer Weiss answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – What do you enjoy about science? – How did you become interested in science? – What advice would you…

Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKuaf3DIF8U Interview with Medicine Laureate Jeffrey C. Hall on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Jeffrey C. Hall answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – How did your upbringing influence your path to science? – Do you think it’s important to have…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Robert Kennedy once said, “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not.” Those words reveal a deep truth about Kennedy: he was an economist at heart – startling though that may…

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Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar Jag vill tacka för äran att vara här, tacka Svenska Akademien, tacka svenska folket och jag vill också tacka skogen. It’s a great pleasure, it’s a great honour to be with you tonight, and I acknowledge this honour which is done to me…

English 7 December, 2008 In the forest of paradoxes Why do we write? I imagine that each of us has his or her own response to this simple question. One has predispositions, a milieu, circumstances. Shortcomings, too. If we are writing, it means that we are not acting. That…

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English Excerpt from Onitsha The Surabaya, an aging three-hundred-ton ship of the Holland Africa Line, had just left the dirty waters of the Gironde estuary, bound for the west coast of Africa, and Fintan looked at his mother as if it were for the first time. Perhaps he had never before realized…