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...lecture, Trivers said, he arrived in Cambridge on the day of the event and was told by Nowak only hours before he was due to speak that the date had been cancelled. A party, scheduled by PED to honor Trivers for his recent receipt of a prestigious scientific award, was also cancelled...
...work in enriching young women through the non-profit organization Strong Women, Strong Girls, the American Institute of Public Service honored Hyde with the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Younger, one of four national public service awards given out at Tuesday’s annual Jefferson Awards for Public Service ceremony...
...TIME's interview with the award-winning actor continues on Time.com. Read these extra questions with Al Pacino...
...AWARD-winning Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène -- considered the father of African cinema for his 1965 movie Black Girl, the first African feature film--was more influential than most politicians. His warm, internationally acclaimed films included Xala and Moolaadé, the story of a woman who tries to shield a group of girls from genital mutilation. A former dockworker and novelist, he turned to film at age 40 to reach Africa's largely illiterate masses and co-founded the biannual FESPACO film festival, called the Cannes of Africa...
...weekly Watch Mr. Wizard, the infectiously curious former actor Don Herbert intrigued kids by respecting their intelligence, employing them as assistants, and conducting cool experiments--with paper plates, straws and teapots--that illuminated such mysteries as how rain is made and why birds fly. The Peabody Award--winning show, which ran from 1951 to 1965, spawned thousands of Mr. Wizard clubs across the country, and in the '60s and '70s was cited by half the applicants to Rockefeller University, the renowned biomedical institute, as a reason for their early interest in science. Herbert...