recient nobel prize winners

2010 

Engineering: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control helicopter.

 

Medicine: Simon Rietveld of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Ilja van Beest of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, for discovering that symptoms of asthma can be treated with a roller coaster ride.

Transportation Planning: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi of Japan, and Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker of the UK, for using slime mold to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.

Physics: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.

Peace: Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK, for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.

Public Health: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.

Economics: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money—ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.

Chemistry: Eric Adams, Scott Socolofsky, Stephen Masutani and BP, for disproving the old belief that oil and water don't mix.

Management: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.

Biology: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, and Shuyi Zhang of China, and Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol, UK, for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats

strike and protest

what is a strike an a protest

What is a strike? A strike is when a group of workers agree to stop working.They do this when they want to protest against something they think is unfair where they work.Strikes sometimes happen so that politicians have to listen more carefully to the workers. what is a protest A protest is an expression of objection, by words or by actions, to particular events, policies or situations. Protests can take many different forms, from individual statements to mass demonstrations. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to directly enact desired changes themselves.Where protests are part of a systematic and peaceful campaign to achieve a particular objective, and involve the use of pressure as well as persuasion, they go beyond mere protest and may be better described as cases of civil resistance or nonviolent resistance.

comprehesion quizz

You scored 5 out of 5
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Kids’ Guernica Painting

A Kids’ Guernica painting created by Eishin junior high school in Hiroshima was displayed at the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Hiroshima on November 12. The Laureates including His Holiness the Dalai Lama discussed the legacy of Hiroshima for the world peace in the summit.

 

Guernica was initially exhibited in July 1937 at the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition The Pavilion, which was financed by the Spanish Republican government at the time of civil war, was built to exhibit the Spanish government's struggle for existence contrary to the Exposition's technology theme. The Pavilion's entrance presented an enormous photographic mural of Republican soldiers accompanied by the slogan:

Between 1939 and 1952, the painting traveled extensively in the United States; between 1953 and 1956 it was shown in Brazil, at the first-ever Picasso retrospective in Milan, Italy, and then in numerous other major European cities, before returning to MoMA for a retrospective celebrating Picasso's seventy-fifth birthday. It then went on to Chicago and Philadelphia. By this time, concern for the state of the painting resulted in a decision to keep it in one place: a room on MoMA's third floor, where it was accompanied by several of Picasso's preliminary studies and some of Dora Maar's photos. The studies and photos were often loaned for other exhibitions, but until 1981, Guernica itself remained at MoMA.

what is an adverb?

An adverb is a part of speech. It is any word that modifies any part of speech or other verbs other than a noun (modifiers of nouns are primarily adjetives and determiners). Adverbs can modify verbs, adjetives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs.

Adverbs typically answer questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where?, and to what extent?. This function is called the adverbial function, and is realized not just by single words (i.e., adverbs) but by adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses

I'm happily married.
Gavy is happily pregnant.
Marco works quickly and diligently.
Wednesday it will rain lightly in the north.
To easily understand it, you should study more.
The policeman serves justly and loyally.
The parents help generously and responsibly.
Laura plays soccer intelligently and powerfully.
Companies grow weakly in Spain.
I'm happily tired.


what is a problem?


A problem is an obstacle, impediment, difficulty or challenge, or any situation that invites resolution; the resolution of which is recognized as a solution or contribution toward a known purpose or goal. A problem implies a desired outcome coupled with an apparent deficiency, doubt or inconsistency that prevents the outcome from taking place.


what is a solution?


A solution is a mixture of one substance dissolved in another so the properties are the same throughout. A solution is composed of a solute and the solvent. The solute is the substance being dissolved and the solvent is the part of the solution that does the dissolving. The solute is of molecular size.

england flowers

tradicionally plants or flowers in england are: wild rose, honeysuckle, and sea lavender

   
                      wild rose                                   honeysuckle                     sea lavender

THE SECRET GARDEN

is a book written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1910, adapted to film and television numerous times. Hodgson it was published from autumn 1910 in booklets. The book was complete in 1911. It is next to Little Lord Fauntleroy "his two best works.

In the moments when Mary Lennox's parents give a feast at his residence in colonial India, an earthquake destroyed his house guests and killing her parents, leaving her an orphan. Mary is a British child born in this continent, so it is sent to the UK to live with an uncle named Mr. Craven, a widower with a sick child, a bombastic big mansion in Yorkshire, where this man lives mired in a stifling and that greater distress is added the evil arts of the strict housekeeper Mrs Medlock. However, a shelter for herself and her three new friends: Colin, his cousin disabled and capricious, Dickon, a boy naive, kind and great protector of animals, and the robin. The three children and the robin rehabilitate the site which in turn will help to build a special relationship that will change their destinies forever.

 

WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE PLANT GARDENS?

 

to make it look nice

 

what plants do you like

 

roses and tulips