Corporation for National and Community Service
Part of what we want to do is hopefully tie it more to getting a lower-cost college education, so that they get scholarships in return for the work they do. Working hand in hand with local partners, we tap the ingenuity and can-do spirit of the American people to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation.Read More Our Programs View All AmeriCorps members all across the country do fantastic work
We believe that the nations of the world must take the opportunity at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015 to take decisive action to limit future global emissions. We say this not as experts in the field of climate change, but rather as a diverse group of scientists who have a deep respect for and understanding of the integrity of the scientific process
The Duff note was disclosed to Peter Wanless, head of the NSPCC, and Richard Whittam, QC, who published a review last year into the loss of hundreds of Home Office files relating to allegations made in the 1980s. Leading figures in the campaign to expose the alleged cover-up of abuse by VIPs claimed that the memo was the first concrete evidence of a decision at the top of the establishment to put political advantage before child protection
Improbable Research
Dozens of technological hurdles had to be overcome in order to make the drones capable of collecting a physical sample at this distance in an uncontrolled marine environment. (Thanks to Adam Olson for bringing this to our attention.) The authors report: The aim of this study was to investigate how relevant women consider single aspects of penile appearance to be
Improbable Research
Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots. PHYSICS: David Chorley and Doug Bower, lions of low-energy physics, for their circular contributions to field theory based on the geometrical destruction of English crops
All Nobel Prizes in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals" Henrik Pontoppidan "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 Romain Rolland "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1914 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year
All Nobel Peace Prizes
Since the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 22 individual organizations which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way" The Nobel Peace Prize 2004 Wangari Muta Maathai "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" The Nobel Peace Prize 2003 Shirin Ebadi "for her efforts for democracy and human rights
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