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Ukrainian activist among winners of ‘Alternative Nobel’

The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been awarded to four community activists, including the head of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties

The Independent UK

‘A new standard’: The woman behind the Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard wins major prize

In the beginning it was a lifeline, an organized collection of facts amid a swirl of coronavirus uncertainty and misinformation.

Los Angeles Times

Derek Goldrei obituary

Other lives: Mathematician who had teaching and leadership positions at the Open University and several Oxford University colleges

The Guardian - UK

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Exclusive-Ukraine will never forgive Russia - Russian Nobel laureate

Ukraine will never forgive Russia for a shameful conflict which has thrown back Russia's development by half a century to Soviet times predating Mikhail Gorbachev, journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov told Reuters.

Reuters

Research revealing the main cause of narcolepsy named as breakthrough of the year

Research sheds light on a central mechanism behind sleep and waking

The Independent UK

How much money will actually make you happy?

We can all fantasise about what we need to make ourselves satisfied — and it doesn’t have to be a fortune

Financial Times

2023 Breakthrough Prize winners announced

The Breakthrough Prizes, created in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, are the most richly endowed awards in science, disbursing more than the Nobel prizes

The Hindu

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How an effort to reduce fossil fuel use led to another environmental problem: Light pollution

LOS ANGELES — In 2014, Los Angeles cut its annual carbon emissions by 43% and saved $9 million in energy costs by replacing the bulbs in more than half of the city's street lamps with light-emitting diodes.

Los Angeles Times

Prince William says environment was ‘cause close to Queen’s heart’

William references grandmother in recorded message for Earthshot prize during royal mourning period

The Guardian - UK

Saul Kripke obituary

Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

The Guardian - UK

Prince of Wales addresses Earthshot Prize summit in New York a day after Queen’s funeral

‘Protecting the environment was a cause close to my grandmother’s heart,’ said Prince William in his first public address since his grandmother’s funeral

Evening Standard

Ukrainian teenager named ‘global student of the year’ wins $100,000 for work on detecting landmines

Igor Klymenko was selected from more than 7,000 students to win prestigious prize

Evening Standard

Prince William cancels trip to New York following the Queen’s death

Prince of Wales was scheduled to attend September summit for Earthshot Prize, which he launched in 2021

The Independent UK

Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel Prize

WASHINGTON -- A Japanese professor won an award for research into how people use their fingers to turn knobs at this year's Ig Nobel Prize, which recognizes humorous and profound achievements in scientific research.

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The Independent UK

Ig Nobel 2022: Research on constipated scorpions, knob turning awarded for making people ‘laugh, then think’

Winners also receive Zimbabwean $10 trillion bills

The Independent UK

Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels

The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels

The Guardian - UK

Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel prize for study on knob turning

Annual satirical awards laud little-known research topics such as why ducklings swim in a line formation

ABC News

Ig Nobel Prize 2022 winners include research showing ancient Maya used enemas to get high

The winners of the Ig Nobels, satirical prizes for scientific achievements that "make people laugh and then think", were awarded a fold-up paper prize and Zimbabwean $10 trillion note.

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The Hindu

How to think like Albert Einstein

Exertion and isolation are key elements in the making of revolutionary ideas. Can our classrooms prepare students accordingly?

Reuters

Green activists urge U.N. rights body to reject Vietnam's bid to join

More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation.

The Guardian - US

Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists

Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Vietnam urged to free green activist Nguy Thi Khanh as it bids to join UN rights body

Goldman laureates raise concerns over Vietnam’s record on suppressing environmental protest

Chicago Sun-Times

Celebrate Babbitt’s 100th by reading ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Sinclair Lewis’ famed novel eclipsed by grim dystopian vision.

The Guardian - UK

Like a poet writing thrillers: why you should read Javier Marías

The Spanish author’s death has robbed us of his unique, riddling investigations into reality

The Independent UK

Balzan Prizes honor work in humanities, science

Three Americans are among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize

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