My apologies to anyone who missed "BookTok" yesterday on LL because I posted this in the Discussion thread, rather than here in the Study Guide thread:
MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:06 am
The new LearnedLeague season starts in a week, so let's bump this to the front page.
A name to know is author Sarah J. Maas, the current obsession of "Book-Tok". Her romantasy series "A Court of Thorns and Roses" (#ACOTAR) has been optioned by Hulu.
I also intended this to be here, but I expected it to be more helpful in the LLRC:
MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:13 am
The finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup were last night, and Spain notched their first tournament win, over England 1-0, with Spanish captain Olga Carmona scoring the match's only goal. In celebration, she displayed the cryptic message "MERCHI" on her shirt, which turned out to be a tribute to the recently departed mother of a friend.
Award winners (these have been asked about before in LL):
Golden Ball (Best overall player): Aitana Bonmatí of Spain
Golden Boot (Top overall scorer): Hinata Miyazawa of Japan
Golden Glove (Best goalkeeper): Mary Earps of England
General Charles Q. Brown was confirmed by the Senate last week as the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing Mark Milley at the end of this month.
Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize.
Professor Kariko and Professor Weissman met in the early 1990s when they were working at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, when their interest in mRNA was seen as a scientific backwater.
Katalin Kariko is now a professor at Szeged University in Hungary and Drew Weissman is still working as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Perhaps surprising some, the award did -not- go to either Moderna or Pfizer...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to three scientists who used ultrafast pulses of light to [capture the dynamics of electrons] with a technique known as attosecond spectroscopy. Per the citation, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier "have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms."
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Today, it's possible to produce a train of [light] pulses lasting 50 attoseconds.
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attosecond spectroscopy has been used to measure how long it takes for an electron to free itself from an atom—depending on how tightly it's bound to the nucleus—and to reconstruct the changing positions of electrons in molecules and materials. In fact, it's now possible to explore the timescale involved in the photoelectric effect, for which Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Quantum dots are extremely tiny - just a few millionths of a millimetre across. They are an artificially-created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles that glow blue, red or green when exposed to light.
Their exact size determines the colour of light they emit when given energy. The smallest quantum dots emit higher energy waves and produce blue light, and biggest dots release lower energy waves creating red light, with the middle sizes creating the colours in between.
Google-checking a correction suggestion to the Archive led me to find this hidden news item that I think is worth mentioning here. As of Monday, Kellogg Company is no more; it has been split into the cereal company WK Kellogg Co. and the snack food business Kellanova.
The Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse has won the Nobel Prize for literature
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“Fosse’s magnum opus is his ‘Septology’ in three books,” a representative of the Academy said during the announcement ceremony, “completed in 2021, in which an elderly artist speaks to himself as another person” over the course of seven days.
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Transit published “Septology” in one volume in 2022 and previously had published it as three separate volumes titled “The Other Name,” “I Is Another” and “A New Name.”
Robert K S wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:29 am
Google-checking a correction suggestion to the Archive led me to find this hidden news item that I think is worth mentioning here. As of Monday, Kellogg Company is no more; it has been split into the cereal company WK Kellogg Co. and the snack food business Kellanova.
This reminds me - I had no idea that there was no such thing as The Chrysler Corporation anymore until the strikes...
Stellantis still sells cars branded Chrysler though, right?
davey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:59 am
cars branded Chrysler
The only models sold today under that make are the Pacifica minivan, which is preferable over Toyota's Sienna only for its better availability and lower cost if you go with the non-hybrid version, and a sedan called the Chrysler 300 that no one in their right mind would buy. I would be surprised if the make is still around in 2030.
davey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:59 am
cars branded Chrysler
The only models sold today under that make are the Pacifica minivan, which is preferable over Toyota's Sienna only for its better availability and lower cost if you go with the non-hybrid version, and a sedan called the Chrysler 300 that no one in their right mind would buy. I would be surprised if the make is still around in 2030.
Narges Mohammadi, who has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, has for years been a prominent human rights figure in Iran.
She was awarded the prize for her fight against the oppression of women in the country, with the head of the Nobel committee calling her a "freedom fighter". She has also tirelessly campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran, which has one of the highest execution rates in the world.
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Ms Mohammadi, 51, has been arrested 13 times, convicted five times, and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison. She is currently in jail for "spreading propaganda".
Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum shattered the men's marathon world record in Chicago as he beat compatriot Eliud Kipchoge's previous mark by more than 30 seconds.
The 23-year-old finished in a time of two hours and 35 seconds.
"I feel so happy. A world record was not in my mind today," he said after beating Kipchoge's time of 2:01.09, set in Berlin in September 2022.
