Internet giants back life extension research - Americas. Famed founders of internet rivals Google and Facebook joined forces to back big-money prizes for research aimed at extending human life. Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, along with their spouses, on Wednesday joined Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner to award 11 scientists $3m each to launch the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. "Priscilla and I are honoured to be part of this," Zuckerberg said. "We believe the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has the potential to provide a platform for other models of philanthropy, so people everywhere have an opportunity at a better future. " Art Levinson, who chairs boards at mobile device powerhouse Apple and biotechnology star Genentech, will head the non-profit foundation created to support breakthrough research. Levinson said he believed the prize would spotlight outstanding minds in medicine and hoped it would help enhance medical innovation.
Zuckerberg, Milner, and Brin's wife Anne Wojcicki will be on the foundation's board of directors. Gore Vidal's Historical Novel 'Julian' and Its Modern Parallels. "I can talk for an hour without notes, but for 15 minutes, I have to read it. I shall look up occasionally to give an air of spontaneity. " Thus, Gore Vidal begins one of his customarily suave and witty speeches, this one delivered at a Books and Authors Luncheon held on November 30, 1964. After his Broadway success with "The Best Man" and subsequent strong (but ultimately unsuccessful) run for Congress, Vidal had returned to fiction with the historical novel Julian, about the life of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate. Here, he describes his 10 years of research for the book, arguing that, paradoxically, when imagining, one cannot play fast and loose with the facts because only "by remaining absolutely accurate in detail can one invent a good deal in spirit.
" Few writers have assumed the role of Man of Letters more successfully than Vidal. Born in 1925, Vidal was descended on both sides from families intimately involved in the political power structure of the country. Gore Vidal, chronicler of American life and politics, dies. Gore Vidal, the eclectic writer who faithfully chronicled the major shifts and upheavals in the United States, appears at a Rome literary festival in 2006. Vidal died Tuesday, July 31, of complications from pneumonia, a nephew said. He was 86. Vidal, at 21, poses for a portrait in 1947. In all, he wrote some 25 novels, two successful Broadway plays, numerous screenplays and more than 200 essays. Vidal at home in an undated picture. Vidal's 1948 work, "The City and the Pillar," featuring an openly gay character, brought him notoriety at a time when homosexuality was still considered immoral.
Vidal with Mike Wallace in the CBS newsroom in 1978. Barry Commoner, from left, Vidal and Studs Terkel in 1980. Vidal at his home in Italy in 1993. Vidal and Susan Sarandon appear backstage during the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2003 tribute to the Oscar-winning actress in New York. Vidal on the terrace of his Italian residence in Ravello in 2004. Vidal in his studio in 2004. Relishing his role. Gore Vidal dies aged 86. Author Gore Vidal has died from complications of pneumonia at age 86. Photo: Getty Images Source: Getty Images Famous playwright Gore Vidal has died. Source: Supplied LEGENDARY American author Gore Vidal has died at the age of 86. Burr Steers, Vidal's nephew, said the playwright and commentator died at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from pneumonia.
Steers said Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for "quite a while''. Along with such contemporaries as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Vidal was among the last generation of literary writers who were also genuine celebrities - fixtures on talk shows and in gossip columns, personalities of such size and appeal that even those who hadn't read their books knew who they were. In the 1960s and 70s, he was a fixture on talk shows and other television programs and feuded openly with Norman Mailer, William F. He also worked on screenplays and appeared in several movies, including Bob Roberts and With Honors. Gore Vidal, gentleman bitch. Welcome to Assessment, an occasional tour through the fights, critical squabbles and obsessions of the Internet culture machine. “Gore Vidal loved America in the way that the best of the founders did,” The Nation’s John Nicols wrote today.
He also called Vidal a “bold and unrelenting challenger of the Puritanism that he regarded as the ugliest of American tendencies. " No doubt this is an accurate assessment of Vidal, the prolific author, playwright, television commentator, social gadfly and aphorist who died late yesterday in his Hollywood Hills residence at the age of 86. But Vidal was also prolific in his self-assessments, many of which are reformulations of his proclamation of himself as America's "gentleman bitch.
" Vidal wrote 25 novels, of which the bestsellers Lincoln and Myra Breckenridge were the most famous; several obituary writers are reminding the public that his 1946 novel The City and the Pillar was one of the first to feature characters who were unapologetically gay. Book Smart | Gore Vidal, Pillar of Style. The Gore Vidal Papers / By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityA new “visual memoir” of Gore Vidal’s photographs.
The infamously persnickety Gore Vidal would most probably balk at being designated an icon of style. However, his new book “Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History’s Glare” (Abrams, $40), being touted as a “visual memoir,” serves as a fresh reminder of the esteemed place that he holds not only in literature, film and politics but also in the style world. The Gore Vidal Papers / By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityThis photo of Vidal was taken in Guatemala in 1947. From his youthful days in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., to his homes in upstate New York, the Italian countryside and the Hollywood Hills, he has documented his life with unintentionally stylish shots of himself; his late companion, Howard Auster; and their many famous friends and visitors. There’s Tennessee Williams in Key West; Andy Warhol in Italy; John F.
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He’s been sitting down, by my estimations, since c. 2002 and I wonder what his problem is. Maybe he always wanted an Endowed Chair. Here he is in his reading chair with what appears to be either flat champagne or apple juice. I think it would be difficult to speak over ~10 violins. If a Brazilian guy was waving his 7″ – 8.5″ dong around, I’d be pretending to look into the camera too. Wtf? Gore Vidal. American spies have spotted all the signs of an all-out Russian invasion of Ukraine. Why won’t they tell the Ukrainians about the forces on their border? U.S. intelligence agencies now have detailed information that Russia has amassed the kind of forces needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
But the Obama administration hasn’t shared with Ukraine the imagery, intercepts, and analysis that pinpont the location of the Russian troops ready to seize more Ukrainian land, The Daily Beast has learned. President Obama has repeatedly and publicly expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian people—and warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin that there will be consequences if he takes over any more Ukrainian territory. Yet Obama’s administration has so far been reluctant to hand over the kind of intelligence the Ukrainians could use to defend themselves. “I am not confident we are sharing any of that kind of information,” said Rep. Others disagreed. Cavett: Gore Vidal hates being dead. Gore Vidal, the eclectic writer who faithfully chronicled the major shifts and upheavals in the United States, appears at a Rome literary festival in 2006.
Vidal died Tuesday, July 31, of complications from pneumonia, a nephew said. He was 86. Vidal, at 21, poses for a portrait in 1947. In all, he wrote some 25 novels, two successful Broadway plays, numerous screenplays and more than 200 essays. Vidal at home in an undated picture. Vidal with Mike Wallace in the CBS newsroom in 1978. Barry Commoner, from left, Vidal and Studs Terkel in 1980.
Vidal at his home in Italy in 1993. Vidal and Susan Sarandon appear backstage during the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2003 tribute to the Oscar-winning actress in New York. Vidal on the terrace of his Italian residence in Ravello in 2004. Vidal in his studio in 2004. Vidal appears at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in 2007. Vidal attends a Museum of Contemporary Arts gala in Los Angeles in 2009.
Gore Vidal through the years Dick Cavett.