2016 Current Events Study Guide
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All-Star pitcher Jose Fernandez of the Miami Marlins dies aged 24, in a boat accident.
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In the last regular-season broadcast of Vin Scully's legendary 67-year career, the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their fourth straight National League West Division title with a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies. The Dodgers tied the game on a home run in the bottom of the ninth by presumptive NL Rookie of the Year Corey Seager and then won it in walk-off fashion in the tenth with another homer by former Rockie Charlie Culberson.
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Today was Vin Scully's last game to call at Dodger Stadium. He will be behind the mike at AT&T Park next Sunday, Oct. 2nd and that will be his last game.BigDaddyMatty wrote:In the last regular-season broadcast of Vin Scully's legendary 67-year career, the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their fourth straight National League West Division title with a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies. The Dodgers tied the game on a home run in the bottom of the ninth by presumptive NL Rookie of the Year Corey Seager and then won it in walk-off fashion in the tenth with another homer by former Rockie Charlie Culberson.
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Brangelina is no more; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are divorcing.
China's first space station, Tiangong-1, will uncontrollably descend into the atmosphere and will crash on earth in late 2017.
Expect a Skylab reference if they use this one.
China's first space station, Tiangong-1, will uncontrollably descend into the atmosphere and will crash on earth in late 2017.
Expect a Skylab reference if they use this one.
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Ooh, this one I like from a trivia standpoint:
Obama has nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be our first ambassador to Cuba in 55 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37491380
Obama has nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be our first ambassador to Cuba in 55 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37491380
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Shimon Perez, former president and prime minister of Israel, dies at age 93.
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Not that it makes a difference for Jeopardy pronunciation purposes, but it's always spelled "Peres". And the relevant portion is that he had several terms as prime minister. President is a purely ceremonial, irrelevant post in Israel.earendel wrote:Shimon Perez, former president and prime minister of Israel, dies at age 93.
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Not always. https://www.google.com/search?q=shimon+ ... imon+peresIronNeck wrote:Not that it makes a difference for Jeopardy pronunciation purposes, but it's always spelled "Peres". And the relevant portion is that he had several terms as prime minister. President is a purely ceremonial, irrelevant post in Israel.earendel wrote:Shimon Perez, former president and prime minister of Israel, dies at age 93.
Pretty sure if I dug up my old World Almanacs from the 90s they'd say 'Perez' too since that's how I remember it in print and that's the only place I would've found it.
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It was relevant in the "Naming the First President" category at the last ToC.IronNeck wrote:Not that it makes a difference for Jeopardy pronunciation purposes, but it's always spelled "Peres". And the relevant portion is that he had several terms as prime minister. President is a purely ceremonial, irrelevant post in Israel.earendel wrote:Shimon Perez, former president and prime minister of Israel, dies at age 93.
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Wow, right you are. Very surprised they asked for it, although it was a bottom-row clue in a ToC game.Cat Hammarskjold wrote:It was relevant in the "Naming the First President" category at the last ToC.IronNeck wrote:Not that it makes a difference for Jeopardy pronunciation purposes, but it's always spelled "Peres". And the relevant portion is that he had several terms as prime minister. President is a purely ceremonial, irrelevant post in Israel.earendel wrote:Shimon Perez, former president and prime minister of Israel, dies at age 93.
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It's Nobel week! Sorta like pledge week, except the average age of drunken revelers is 3-4 times as high.
Up first, Physiology or Medicine
http://gizmodo.com/nobel-prize-awarded- ... 1787349898
Up first, Physiology or Medicine
http://gizmodo.com/nobel-prize-awarded- ... 1787349898
I can see autophagy being a bottom row ask.This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for furthering our understanding of autophagy, the biological process wherein the body eats some of itself in order to survive.
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One minute ago I had never heard of autophagy, so my knowledge of it has been furthered. A well-deserved Nobel.Volante wrote:It's Nobel week! Sorta like pledge week, except the average age of drunken revelers is 3-4 times as high.
Up first, Physiology or Medicine
http://gizmodo.com/nobel-prize-awarded- ... 1787349898I can see autophagy being a bottom row ask.This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for furthering our understanding of autophagy, the biological process wherein the body eats some of itself in order to survive.
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In October 2015, Kersti Kaljulaid became the first woman elected president of this Baltic state
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The third most asked about Nobel on J!, Physics!
Short post, this is going to be edited when Ars Technica releases their summary because I'm not a fan of Reuters' writeup.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel ... SKCN1240VO
Short post, this is going to be edited when Ars Technica releases their summary because I'm not a fan of Reuters' writeup.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel ... SKCN1240VO
The big takeaway is gravitational waves did -not- win.Three British-born scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in electronics and potentially helping work on future quantum computers.
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The winners did their research decades ago. The Nobels often have significant lag time until discoveries prove their value.
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Gravitational waves would be like the Higgs boson. Both were predicted decades ago but only recently has technology allowed us to prove their existence.lbligh wrote:The winners did their research decades ago. The Nobels often have significant lag time until discoveries prove their value.
Further research into this, it seems g-waves were already kinda Nobelled back in 93.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulse-Taylor_binary
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A couple of deaths worth noting:
Curtis Hanson, age 71. Director. His films include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), L.A. Confidential (1997), Wonder Boys (2000), and 8 Mile (2002).
Gloria Naylor, age 66. Author. Best known as the author of The Women of Brewster Place (1982), which follows the lives of seven African-American women.
And a general question to the group: Should we continue with this thread since it's still calendar year 2016 or should we start a new thread after this week's online tests? I'm on the fence.
Curtis Hanson, age 71. Director. His films include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), L.A. Confidential (1997), Wonder Boys (2000), and 8 Mile (2002).
Gloria Naylor, age 66. Author. Best known as the author of The Women of Brewster Place (1982), which follows the lives of seven African-American women.
And a general question to the group: Should we continue with this thread since it's still calendar year 2016 or should we start a new thread after this week's online tests? I'm on the fence.
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I always send people to read the citation and popular information on the Nobel prize web site: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes ... pular.htmlVolante wrote:The third most asked about Nobel on J!, Physics!
Short post, this is going to be edited when Ars Technica releases their summary because I'm not a fan of Reuters' writeup.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel ... SKCN1240VOThe big takeaway is gravitational waves did -not- win.Three British-born scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in electronics and potentially helping work on future quantum computers.
This one is (relatively) close to my expertise: the winners study theories which explain the behaviour of materials where topology is important: phase transitions in magnetic and superconducting materials, mostly. In this case topology means that some 2-dimensional materials have circulating current or magnetic fields, and their behaviour leads to weird and wonderful quantum mechanical effects at low temperature.
David Thouless (one of the three winners) actually worked here as a professor in the physics department at Queen's university in the 1970s before moving on to greener pastures. After Art McDonald won the prize last year, that means two laureates in a row were professors here! Take that Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford!
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I figure calendar year.Blue Lion wrote: And a general question to the group: Should we continue with this thread since it's still calendar year 2016 or should we start a new thread after this week's online tests? I'm on the fence.
With this one, I've been needing multiple sources. Different writeups result in different explanations of the same phenomenon, making it more likely that one of them will click. And as promised, the Ars link... http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/ ... ansitions/boson wrote: I always send people to read the citation and popular information on the Nobel prize web site: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes ... pular.html
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Yup - this is a tough one to explain : the important thing about it is that a vortex (a whirlpool of electric current or magnetic field) is topologically different than other sorts of systems : you can't change gradually from a system with no vortex to one containing a vortex. This difference helps to explain the behaviour of some exotic materials, and the transition as they are cooled to very low temperature. Unlike some recent prizes, this one is subtle and needs good analogies to be explained.Volante wrote:With this one, I've been needing multiple sources. Different writeups result in different explanations of the same phenomenon, making it more likely that one of them will click. And as promised, the Ars link... http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/ ... ansitions/boson wrote: I always send people to read the citation and popular information on the Nobel prize web site: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes ... pular.html