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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOtto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his...
Louise Glück, former U.S. poet laureate and Nobel winner who wrote with 'austere beauty,' dies at 80
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPoet Louise Glück has died at age 80. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press) Louise Glück, the witty,...
The End of Civic Compassion
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 month agoUnder its autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary introduced in early 2020 a new National Core Curriculum. The curriculum presents Hungarian...
On Israel-Hamas war, I must share a powerful lesson Elie Wiesel taught me. | Opinion
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 8 months agoDuring seminary, I studied genocide with Dr. Elie Wiesel. For three fall semesters I had a seat...
Elaine Newton's summer reading list: Share your sunblock with Joan of Arc, Tracy Flick
Naples Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe uninitiated might accuse Artis—Naples book reviewer Elaine Newton of judging her books by their...
Frankfurt Book Fair draws anger after Palestinian writer's award postponed
Reuters via Yahoo News· 8 months agoHundreds of international writers have condemned a literary association and the Frankfurt Book Fair,...
Poland's new PM Donald Tusk sworn in, completing transition of power
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Cabinet were sworn in by the president on...
F. Murray Abraham gets us pumped for his Pittsburgh Symphony appearance & Mozart requiem
Beaver County Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPITTSBURGH – Death gets an entertaining and hopeful spin in “Requiem: Mozart’s Death in Words and...
For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us 'see through lies' in a world divided by walls
Associated Press via AOL· 8 months agoFor Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip is a horrendous example...
The complicated life and career of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb,'...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Princeton, New Jersey.AP In the 1940s, physicist J. Robert...