Graham Harrison Lee has created a book about his great-uncle titled “Jun Fujita: Behind the Camera.” It contains a number of ...
Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...
Why is There No Nobel Prize in Maths? The Nobel Prize is the world’s most prestigious award for fields like physics, chemistry, and medicine. But there is no Nobel Prize for Maths. This unique ...
Even though American TV shows tend to get the lion’s share of coverage and attention, Canada shouldn't be left out of any discussion of great TV. The United States’ northern neighbor is remarkably ...
To fully grasp and appreciate the subject, we need to look at the famous mathematicians who shaped math as we know it today, ...
Well-known mathematician K C Sinha filed his nomination papers to contest the assembly election from the Kumhrar constituency in Patna as a Jan Suraaj candidate Patna: Many eyebrows have been raised ...
Miyamoto Musashi’s duels made him a legend. His writings made him immortal. Here’s what history can (and can't) confirm about the man behind the myth. In this 1840s print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ...
Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...
The first holes at Congressional Country Club, outside Washington D.C., were built in the 1920s by architect Devereux Emmet, but the Blue Course as we know it didn’t come into being until 1957 when ...
Oct. 15 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include: -- Poet Virgil in 70 B.C. -- U.S. first lady Edith Wilson in 1872 -- Writer P.G. Wodehouse in 1881 -- Writer Mario ...
The rodent-shaped sidewalk impression has become a beloved local attraction. Turns out Chicago's famous "rat hole" was squirrelly all along. A new study has determined that the famous full-body ...