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Culture
“Netflix” comes to Korea in 2016
The biggest on-demand internet streaming media “Netflix” is expected to be available in Korea starting next year. As Greg Peters, head of international projects at Netflix, said during his speech in streaming international convention held at Coex mall in Seoul in September. He explained that his company plans to start implementing Netflix…
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Culture
Women in Truman Capote’s world
Truman Capote, the American writer, who’s mostly known for his nonfiction book “In Cold Blood”, wrote a number of novels and short stories, and though their protagonists weren’t always female, there always seemed to be an interesting female character in everything he wrote, and the reason why they were…
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World
Swedish, American and Turkish share Nobel prize in Chemistry 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Swedish Tomas Lindahl of Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, UK, American Paul Modrich of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine,USA, and Turkish Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel…
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Culture
Meyer releases gender-swapped Twilight
Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has written a 442-page “reimagining” of her vampire novel, in honor of the book’s 10th anniversary, swapping the genders of her two protagonists. In the new novel, Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, the role of shy high school student Bella Swan is reassigned to a young man,…
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Society
Nobel prize 2015 in medicine fights parasites
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites; and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy…
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People
Japanese and Canadian scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
In a press release released by the official Nobel Prize academy they announced the winners for 2015 in Physics to be Takaaki Kajita from University of Tokyo in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald from Queen’s university in Canada for their “discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” As follows the…
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West Asia
China prepares to join the fight against ISIS
Al-Masdar Al-Arabi reported that Chinese military advisers are expected to join with their Russian counterparts in weeks. It comes after China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that Chinese and Iraqi foreign ministers agreed to offer intelligence and personal training in September 2014. As China breaks it’s long history of non-interference, due…
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West Asia
EU leaders duck responsibilities on refugees
European Union leaders meeting on September 23, 2015, focused on how to stem the flow of asylum seekers instead of strategies for a responsible, humane response to the crisis at its borders, Human Rights Watch said today. “Listening to EU leaders, you could almost be forgiven for thinking there is…
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South Asia
Guantanamo Bay releases ‘Bin Laden bodyguard’
A Saudi man, Abdul Shalabi, 39, has been transferred back to Saudi Arabia after being freed from Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said. Shalabi is said to have once worked as a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden Shalabi was captured by Pakistani forces in 2001 and sent to the US base in Cuba, where…
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West Asia
British help academics escape war
A British foundation created in 1933 to help academics flee Nazi Germany started helping Syrian and Iraqi academics escape in the hope that one day they will return and rebuild. In their headquarters in London’s South Bank University, Five full-time employees helped by interns work to make it easier for refugees to…
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