Music icon Stevie Wonder, a UN Messenger of Peace who has long been a supporter for the right of parsons with disabilities, had appealed to more than 600 forum negotiators from 186 countries to finalize the treaty, and promised to celebrate with them in Morocco the agreement concluded.
Read more ; UN News Center http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45292&Cr=disabilit&Cr1=#.Uc61Nfk3Dzx
Today's Google Doodle cerebrates 100th in the tournament of Tour de France.The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race stage multiple primarily held in France, while occasionally also making passes through nearby countries.
Astronauts Mike Massimino and Don Pettit discuss the emergency spacewalk (EVA) with fellow astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield during Expedition 35 aboard the International Space Station.
Graham Calder, CTO of Pearson in EMEA, talks about how Pearson focuses on using new technology and the Google Enterprise platform to improve the education and learning industries. May 21, 2013.
Today's doodle celebrates the 161th birth anniversary of a Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi i Cornet.
Sagrada Familia is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852- 1926 ). Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.Construction of Sagrada Familia had commenced in 1882( 131 years ago), Gaudi became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style-combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms.
All about SUSY : Professor John Ellis
Supersymmetry Theory !
Jonathan Richard Ellis CBE FRS ( born 1 July 1946 ) is a British theoretical physicist who is currently Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.
After completing his secondary education at Highgate School, he attended King's College, Cambridge, earning his Ph.D. in theoretical (high-energy) particle physics in 1971. After brief post-doc positions at SLAC and Caltech, he went to CERN and has held an indefinite contract there since 1978. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize by the Institute of Physics 1982 and 2005 respectively, and is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London since 1985 and of the Institute of Physics since 1991. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton, and twice won the First Award in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition (in 1999 and 2005). He is also Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University.
Ellis' activities at CERN are wide-ranging. He was twice Deputy Division Leader for the theory ("TH") division, and served as Division Leader for 1988-1994. He was a founding member of the LEPC and of the LHCC; currently he is chair of the committee to investigate physics opportunities for future proton accelerators, and is a member of the extended CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) Steering Committee.
Ellis was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to science and technology.
Ellis' research interests focus on the phenomenological aspects of particle physics, though he has also made important contributions to astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity. Most of his publications relate directly to experiment, from interpreting measurements and the results of search for new particles, to exploring the physics that could be done with future accelerators. He was one of the pioneers of research at the interface between particle physics and cosmology, which has since become a sub-specialty of its own: particle astrophysics.
Ellis' early research accomplishments are centered on the phenomenology of gauge theories. Working with Dimitri Nanopoulos and Mary Gaillard, he proposed in 1976 the so-called "Higgs-strahlung" process in which a Higgs boson is radiated from a Z-boson (this prove to be the best way to search for the Higgs boson at the Large Electron-Positron Collider), and in the same year estimated the direct CP-violation contribution to rare neutral kaon decays (which led to the success of the NA31 and NA48 experiments at CERN). Also in 1976, he published two papers suggesting techniques for finding the gluon in e⁺ eˉ annihilations. The following year he predicted the mass of the bottom quark on the basis of Grand Unified Theory, before this quark was observed in experiment. In 1978 he published a frequently cited general paper on such theories, with Andrzej J. Buras, Gaillard and Nanopoulos.
In the 1980s, Ellis became a leading advocate of models of supersymmetry. In one of his earliest works, he showed that the lightest supersymmetric particle is a natural dark matter candidate. In 1991, he showed that radiative corrections to the mass of the lightest Higgs bososn in minimal supersymmetric models increased that mass beyond the reach of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) searches. The search for the Higgs boson remains one of the most important topics in particle physics, motivating researchers at both the Fermilab Tevatron and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). More generally, Ellis and collaborators pioneered the analysis of so-called "benchmark scenarios" meant to illustrate the range of phenomenology to be expected from supersymmetric models, such analyses have played a major role in evaluating the promise of various future accelerator options.
In parallel to his investigations of supersymmetric phenomenology, Ellis has also advocated phenomenological probes of quantum gravity and string theory. Theses probes include direct tests of quantum mechanics with the CPLEAR Collaboration and the derivation of Grand Unified Theories from string theory. In this vein, his work on tests of the constancy of the velocity of light and models of string cosmology received separate prizes from the Gravity Research Foundation.
An impression of the impact of Ellis' research can be obtained from the INSPIRE-HEP reference system for scientific papers in particle physics and related fields. As of 2008, this data base lists over 850 scientific papers of he is an author; altogether the sum of citations is above 50,000. in 2004 a SPIRES survey ranked him as the second most-cited theoretical physicist. His publications include three papers with over 1000 citations, eight more over 500 citations, and over 100 other papers with at least 100 citations each.
Ellis is well known for his efforts to involve non-European nations in CERN scientific activities. In the context of the LHC, he has interacted frequently with physicists, administrators at universities and institutes, and ministers of funding agencies and diplomatic corps from wide variety of countries, ranging from major CERN partners like the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, India, Israel, Armenia and China, to states with nascent physics programs such as Azerbaijan, the Baltic republics, Bolivia, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Iran, Madagascar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Romania, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and lately in Palestine, and many others. These interactions have fostered the international character of CERN and opened the pathways of scientific discourse all around the world.
Uri Alon :We have to change the culture of science to do better research
Uri Alon is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in Escherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques. In 2004 Alon was awarded the Overton Prize for "outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career" by the International Society for Computational Biology.
Dr. So Yeon Yi talk with Olga Garcia, former Google Science Fair Grand Prize Winner Brittany Wenger and 4 years old Madelyn, who wants to be an astronaut.
Yi studied at Gwangju Science High School. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees with a focus on mechanics at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon. Her doctorate in biotech systems was conferred on 29 February 2008 in a ceremony at KAIST although she was unable to be present due to her training commitments in Russia.
Yi was one of the two finalists chosen on 25 December 2006 through the Korean Astronaut Program. On 5 September 2007, the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology chose Ko San, over Yi So-yeon, following performance and other tests during their training in Russia. On 7 March 2008, she was selected to train with the primary crew, and on 10 March the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced that Yi would replace Ko. This was after the Russian Federal Space Agency asked for a replacement because Ko violated regulations several times at a Russian training center by removing sensitive reading materials and mailing one back to Korea. On 8 April 2008, Yi was launched into space on board Soyuz TMA-12, with two Russian cosmonauts. South Korea is reported to have paid Russia $20 Million for Yi's space flight. She makes South Korea the third country, after the United Kingdom and Iran, to have a woman as its first space traveler.
Flying as a guest of the Russian government through a commercial agreement with South Korea, Yi's role aboard Soyuz and the ISS is referred to as a spaceflight participant (Russian: uchastnik kosmicheskovo poleta) in Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA documents and press briefings.
After her flight, Yi works as a researcher at KARI as well as acting as Korea's space ambassador, together with Ko San. On 4 October 2008, Yi launched the International Institute of Space Commerce, at a ceremony held in Douglas, Isle of Man. Based on Yi's track record so early on in her career, she has been listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011.
Project Loon : Balloon-powered Internet access
The Technology
Project Loon : New Zealand Pilot Test
The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is a far from being a solved problem. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.
Read more: Google Official Blog :http://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2013/06/introducing-project-loon.html
Alicia Keys " Girls On Fire " Hangout on Nov 20,2012
Alicia Keys invited fans from across the globe along with Maxwell, Emeli Sande and Miguel to her studio in New York City to premiere her new album live on You Tube in a Google+ Hangout. She tells the story behind the creation of "Girls On Fire".
Alicia Keys on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+AliciaKeys/posts
13 year old Nick LeGrande of Kansas City has just made MLB history by throwing the first telerobotic pitch from 1,800 miles away. His big league dreams were put on hold when he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a life-threatening blood disorder.
Watch the video : < Nick's First Pitch > on Google fiber : https://fiber.google.com/about/nicksfirstpitch/
Google Fiber official page on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+GoogleFiber/posts
This logo was created as a refresh of the original Google logo. It was a collaboration between the designers Jon Wiley and Michael Lopez. Valuable feedback was provided by Jamie Divine, Susan Shepard, Margaret Stewart, Michael Leggett, and Nundu Janakiram.
Red Carpet of the MAN OF STEEL World Premiere in New York City. Interview with cast members, Henry Cavil, Amy Adams, Russel Crowe,Kevin Costner and many more.
The Google Science Fair is an online competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American. It was announced in January 2011,all entries were due at 11:59:59 Eastern Daylight Time on April 7, 2011 and judging occurred in July 2011. The competition is open is open to 13-18 year old students around the globe, who formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and present their results. All students must have an internet connection and a free Google account to participate, as the project are submitted through Google Sites in English, German, Italian, Spanish, or French. The final submission must include ten sections, which are the summary, an "About Me" page, the step of the project, and works cited page .Entries are judged eight core criteria, which include the student's presentation, question, hypothesis, research, experiment, data, observation, and conclusion. Prize are awarded to three finalists. The grand prize a National Geographic trip to the Galapagos Islands, a US$50,000 scholarship, and an "experience" at a sponsoring organization, finalist will receive a US$25,000 scholarship and assorted package from sponsoring organizations. While Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at Stanford University in California, they created Google in January 1996 as a research project; Google employee Tom Oliveri highlighted the company's early days: "Science fairs help students to explore their vision and curiosity through science. Our company was founded on an experiment. We firmly believe that science can change the world," he stated.
"Where The Wild Things Are" is a 2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book.
Official Trailer : Release Date October 16 2009
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928-May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's book. He became widely known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are",first publish in 1963.
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