Henri-Georges Clouzot. Bruce Chatwin. Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English novelist and travel writer.
François Coty. François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, France – 25 July 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfumer and businessman.
He was a founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc., based in New York City. Solid-phase microextraction. Solid-phase microextraction, or SPME, is a sample preparation technique used both in the laboratory and on-site.
Developed in the early 1990s at the University of Waterloo by Dr. Pawliszyn's group, it is a simple and inexpensive technique where the use of solvents is not necessary. The attraction of SPME is that the extraction is fast and simple and can be done usually without solvents, and detection limits can reach parts per trillion (ppt) levels for certain compounds. SPME also has great potential for field applications; on-site sampling can be done even by nonscientists without the need to have gas chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment at each location.
When properly stored, samples can be analyzed days later in the laboratory without significant loss of volatiles. Edmond Roudnitska. Paul Poiret. Paul Poiret, c. 1913 Model in a Poiret dress, 1914 Model in a Poiret suit, 1914 Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France – 30 April 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer.
His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso's contributions to twentieth-century art.[1][2] Early life and career[edit] Poiret's influence expands[edit] Uplink (video game) Uplink is a video game released in 2001 by the British software company Introversion Software.
It is best described as a simulator of the cinematic depiction of computer hacking. Most of the 'hacking' is of the form: "there is a security system of type X, level Y that is stopping me from accessing or changing something I need to access or change, so I need to have an anti-X program of level Y+". There is some need for rapid selection of programs to run, but there is no actual difficulty in running them (provided that one can afford them). The game has a certain number of unusual features, including an in-game IRC function to talk to other players and in earlier versions a multi-monitor feature requiring another copy of the game running on a second computer. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game based on the "six degrees of separation" concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.
That idea eventually morphed into this parlor game, wherein movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and prolific Hollywood character actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that any individual involved in the Hollywood, California, film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to Kevin Bacon within six steps.
The game requires a group of players to try to connect any such individual to Kevin Bacon as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible. It can also be described as a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon. In 2007, Bacon started a charitable organization named SixDegrees.org. History[edit] Norman Mailer. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate. His first novel was The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948. His best work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award. V. S. Naipaul. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (/ˈnaɪpɔːl/ or /naɪˈpɔːl/; b. 17 August 1932), is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for the comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker later novels of the wider world, and the chronicles of his life and travels.[1] Naipaul has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years.
Naipaul was married to Patricia Ann Hale from 1955 until her death in 1996. She served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings. To her Naipaul dedicated his A House for Mr. Biswas. Background and early life: Trinidad[edit] Albert Bandura. Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925) is a psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University.
Tom McCarthy (writer) Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English novelist, writer, and artist.
McCarthy's debut novel Remainder was written in 2001[3] and rejected by mainstream UK publishers. It was published in November 2005 by the small Paris-based art publisher Metronome Press and distributed through gallery and museum shops, but not in chain bookstores[2] and then received widespread critical attention in the literary and mainstream press, with one of its first reviews, in December 2005, on ReadySteadyBook who called it "one of the most important novels written in a long, long time. " The London Review of Books called it "a very good novel indeed" and The Independent claimed that "its minatory brilliance calls for classic status".[4] The novel was re-published by the independent publisher Alma Books in the UK (2006), and the Bertelsmann subsidiaryVintage in the US (2007), where it ranked as an Amazon top one-hundred seller and entered the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list.
Mothra. Name[edit] The name "Mothra" is the suffixation of "-ra" to the English word "moth"; since the Japanese language does not have dental fricatives, it is approximated "Mosura" in Japanese.
[citation needed] The “ra” suffix follows the precedent set by “Gojira”, which in turn is derived from kujira (鯨（クジラ), the Japanese word for “whale,” to indicate the character’s enormous size. Character overview and development[edit] Tsuchinoko. The Tsuchinoko (ツチノコ or 槌の子?) Yoshiharu Tsuge. Pøbel. In July 2012 Pøbel curated the street art event Komafest in Vardø, Norway, where international street artists participated to decorate a fishing community heavily hit by depopulation.
References[edit] External links[edit] Official website. Mutual knowledge (logic) Jump up ^ Osborne, Martin J., and Ariel Rubinstein. A Course in Game Theory. Kurt Gödel. Werner Heisenberg. David Bohm. David Joseph Bohm FRS[1] (20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American-British theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology. He is widely considered to be one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century.[2] Bohm advanced the view that the old Cartesian model of reality (that there were two interacting kinds of substance - mental and physical) was limited, in the light of developments in quantum physics.
He developed in detail a mathematical and physical theory of implicate and explicate order to complement it.[3] He also believed that the working of the brain, at the cellular level, obeyed the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought was distributed and non-localised in the way that quantum entities do not readily fit into our conventional model of space and time.[4] Biography[edit] Paul Erdős. Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál [ˈɛrdøːʃ paːl]; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. Clifford A. Pickover. Clifford Alan Pickover (born 15 August 1957) is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction, and is employed at the IBM Thomas J.
Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. Ray Kurzweil. WinFS. Dava Sobel. Dava Sobel speaking at a Yale event. Rebecca Goldstein.