Results for “Q Prize”

including the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize

three Nobel Prize winners were in attendance.

Cambridge University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. The journalists

UCSF. 2009 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine.

his research (including the Troland Research Prize

I would have been obligated to give them the prize. This result both fascinated and depressed

a prize-winning journalist who had been the New York Times

…Date: June 2017; 110.000 words] Evolutionary biologist and Harvard professor Jonathan Losos is widely known for his unique approach to studying evolution in realtime and using experimental means. As E.O. Wilson writes, Losos is a "world leader in research and theory of the overl...

… a problem at once. Traditional computers worked problems the way you or I might, step by step. Hillis’ design was the equivalent of millions of minds, all moving at once. Coordinated, connected and awesomely fast. In the years since, he’d played a key role in a dozen 127 HOUSE...

…015, Time named him one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People." jorgeramos.com @jorgeramosnews Isabel Behncke Izquierdo Primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo studies the social behavior of primates and the birth of human cultures. TED Fellow Isabel Behncke Izquierdo wr...

…d propagates itself, as regimes from different regions and with diverse socioeconomic foundations copy and borrow techniques of political control. Among its major findings: • Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, has played an outsized role in the development of modern authorit...

…uilt-in solar panel to charge its four AA-sized batteries. The lantern has an obvious advantage over kerosone-fuelled equivalents: with no flame or smoke emissions, it is safer and more environmentally friendly. The batteries are made for 500 cycles, or about two years, but the...

TED2017: The future you 4/20/17, 12:07 PM vision, computational physiology, global seismic monitoring and philosophical foundations. He also works for the United Nations, developing a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty. His current concerns in...

“Why we camp out here? I find that question as mysterious as you do,” says Weingarten. Shortly after Weingarten leaves, Epstein tells me that Eric Holder will resign by the end of the week—which he does. Epstein summons in the next person cooling his heels in the ante- room. It...