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02 PMRecalling Rabbi Lichtenstein's 'humanism'

Edit Topix 11 May 2016
Monday marks a full year since noted religious Zionist leader Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein passed away in April 2015 at the age of 81, and in his honor a special booklet has been published by the Israel Democracy Institute . Rabbi Lichtenstein was the dean of Har Etzion Yeshiva in Judea's Gush Etzion, a doctor of English literature and a winner of the prestigious Israel Prize in Torah Literature ... ....

The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch

Edit New Yorker 11 May 2016
In 1974, the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote to her friend Naomi Lebowitz, a professor of English and comparative literature at Washington University, in St ... ....

***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Gardner to Lead COMPETES Commerce Committee Hearing (Cory Gardner)

Edit Public Technologies 11 May 2016
Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) will lead a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing entitled, 'Leveraging the U.S. Science and Technology Enterprise.' ... Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ... Kelvin Droegemeier, Vice Chair, National Science Board • Dr ... science and research community ... science and research communities....

Minister congratulates Ockham NZ Book Awards winners (New Zealand Government)

Edit Public Technologies 11 May 2016
(Source. New Zealand Government). The richness and diversity of modern New Zealand culture is reflected in the literature honoured at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2016, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry says ... Ms Barry presented the four categories of Best First Book awards at tonight's ceremony in Auckland ... Public permalinkhttp.//www.publicnow.com/view/8A4269FBE5701334C962068174F3BCF27B1FC958. (noodl. 33493162) ....

Panama Papers: Harry Potter star Emma Watson denies tax dodging after offshore account revealed

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 11 May 2016
Don't Play. Replay. Replay Video Icon. Player help icon. Emma Watson denied avoiding tax last night after becoming the latest high-profile name listed in the Panama Papers offshore data leak ... Advertisement ... But the actress, who played Hermione Granger in the Potter films, said in February that she wanted to spend a year reading literature and developing HeForShe, a UN initiative to boost gender equality ... Telegraph, London. ....

TGAC Installs Largest SGI UV 300 Supercomputer for Life Sciences Worldwide to Solve the Most ...

Edit Stockhouse 11 May 2016
With the world's largest SGI® UV™ 300 installation for Life Sciences, with one of the largest Intel® SSD for PCIe* deployments worldwide, TGAC's new supercomputing platform gives the research Institute access to the next-generation of SGI UV technology for genomics ... Ketan Paranjape, general manager of Intel's Life Sciences team, added ... For more information about BBSRC, our science and our impact see....

Want J&K; youth to get inspired, join mainstream: Athar Khan

Edit The Times of India 11 May 2016
NEW DELHI. Athar Khan, who has finished second in the civil services examination (CSE) 2015, hopes to work for the downtrodden and make his home state J&K; one of the better-administered parts in the country. "I want the J&K; youth to get inspired to join the mainstream," he said ... For Dabi, topping the exam was no fluke ... Being a political science student, the subjects she found toughest were maths and science ... ....

Sci-Fi Drawings Explore A World Beyond Reality And Today's Technology

Edit Indonesia News 11 May 2016
Inspired by comic books, science fiction, horror movies, early video games and computer graphics, artist Jess Johnson imagines a psychedelic world outside of our cell phones.... ....

Tech can’t thrive without women, says Israeli-born Oracle CEO

Edit The Jerusalem Post 11 May 2016
Software giant building tech-focused school to encourage girls to study sciences ... ....

Reception set to honor retiring UND aerospace sciences dean

Edit The Roanoke Times 11 May 2016
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A reception is planned to honor the retiring dean of aerospace sciences at the University of North Dakota ... ....

$2m to connect young Kiwis with science

Edit Scoop 11 May 2016
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced that 44 projects have been successful in the 2016 round of the Unlocking Curious Minds contestable fund ... ....

10 Favorite FPGA-Based Prototyping Boards

Edit Engineering Times 11 May 2016
Space science engineer Adam Taylor lists some of his favorite development boards for prototyping embedded systems ... ....

NASA's official exoplanet count more than doubles

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 11 May 2016
"One of the great questions of all time, and one of NASA's science objectives in our journey to the solar system and beyond, is whether we are alone in the ......
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