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4/20/11
Pulitzeri sai Jennifer Egan
Guardian teatab, et maineka Pulitzeri auhinna vääriliseks kirjanduse valdkonnas peeti sel aastal Jennifer Eganit ning ta paljukiidetud uuenduslikku romaani A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Judges called Egan's novel "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed". The interlocking story, which has already won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, follows the lives of ageing punk rocker and music mogul Bennie Salazar and his young PA Sasha, moving from the 1970s to the near future, from New York and San Francisco to Naples and Africa.
Judges called Egan's novel "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed". The interlocking story, which has already won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, follows the lives of ageing punk rocker and music mogul Bennie Salazar and his young PA Sasha, moving from the 1970s to the near future, from New York and San Francisco to Naples and Africa.
4/17/11
4/14/11
Francis Fukuyama aastal 2011
Andrew Bast uurib Newsweekis, millega tegeleb ja mida arvab maailma kulgemistest 20 aasta eest ajaloo lõppu ennustanud mõtleja Francis Fukuyama.
What does Fukuyama make of the confounding world of today, with revolutions rocking the Middle East and the rest torn between Washington’s free-market democratic model or Beijing’s authoritarian state capitalism? “There’s something very gratifying about the Middle East demonstrating that Islam is not at odds with the democratic currents that have swept up other parts of the world,” he says. “But what’s most important, actually, is what happens next.” That is, of course, the messy, often contentious process of engineering democracy. These are complicated places—despotic rule has stunted political parties (or, as in Libya, erased them entirely) and gutted civil society. That’s where the real trouble begins. On the “Arab Spring,” he’s bearish. “I guarantee you in a year or two it will not look as hopeful. It’s the whole point of my book. You need institutions, leaders—and corruption has to be under control. These are really the failings of many democracy movements. And it’s happening again—if you look at Egypt, the liberal parties are floundering.”
What does Fukuyama make of the confounding world of today, with revolutions rocking the Middle East and the rest torn between Washington’s free-market democratic model or Beijing’s authoritarian state capitalism? “There’s something very gratifying about the Middle East demonstrating that Islam is not at odds with the democratic currents that have swept up other parts of the world,” he says. “But what’s most important, actually, is what happens next.” That is, of course, the messy, often contentious process of engineering democracy. These are complicated places—despotic rule has stunted political parties (or, as in Libya, erased them entirely) and gutted civil society. That’s where the real trouble begins. On the “Arab Spring,” he’s bearish. “I guarantee you in a year or two it will not look as hopeful. It’s the whole point of my book. You need institutions, leaders—and corruption has to be under control. These are really the failings of many democracy movements. And it’s happening again—if you look at Egypt, the liberal parties are floundering.”
4/11/11
Tarkade Klubi aprillinumber
Värske Tarkade Klubi number annab mitmete joonistega täiendatud ülevaate Jaapanit tabanud loodus- ja tuumaõnnetusest. Uuritakse, mil määral võivad meie (majandusalaseid) otsustusi juhtida ürgselt sissekodeeritud käitumismallid ja kuidas evolutsioon on inimese aju aeglasemaks muutnud. Veel on juttu sellest, mis on ehtsad ja mis võltsid naeratused, ning tutvustatakse läbimurret, mis võib peatselt meile utua tuhat korda kiiremad arvutid. Persoonirubriigis annab intervjuu teadusajaloolane Erki Tammiksaar. Ajalookülgedel meenutatakse 25 aasta möödumist Tšernobõli tuumakatastroofist ja 100 aasta möödumist ülijuhtivuse avastamisest. Uus rubriik "Võimas valk" tutvustab valku, mis käsib lootel areneda meheks. Kuidas-rubriigis lendavad kopterid, kihutavad autod ja käib küberkuritegevus. Uudistest võib leida loo uutest ülikiiresti täis laadivatest akudest.4/9/11
4/8/11
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Uus elementaarosake muudab maailmapilti
Amanda Gefter kirjutab New Scientistis veebisaidil äsjaleitud uuest elementaarosakesest, mille olemasolus saab olla peaaegu kindel ning mis sunnib teadlasi tõenäoliselt olulisel määral ümber hindama seda, kuidas maailmakõiksus oma kõige pisemal tasandil toimib, ning loobuma seni veel avastamata ja uute andmete valguses võib-olla koguni olematu Higgsi bosoni otsimisest. Just over 20 years ago, Lane, along with Fermilab physicist Estia Eichten, predicted that experiments would see just such a signal. Lane and Eichten were working on a theory known as technicolour, which proposes the existence of a fifth fundamental force in addition to the four already known: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Technicolour is very similar to the strong force, which binds quarks together in the nuclei of atoms, only it operates at much higher energies. It is also able to give particles their mass – rendering the Higgs boson unnecessary...
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