Podcasts about Donna Strickland

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I had the pleasure of interviewing the one and only Donna Theo Strickland for our Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner series. Donna Theo Strickland is a renowned Canadian physicist widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018 with her colleague Gérard Mourou for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification.  In this fun discussion between two experimental physicists, we talked about the Nobel Prize, the experimental minimum, why physics you can see is the coolest physics, lasers, pedagogy, and much more! Tune in.  Key Takeaways:  Intro (00:00) How does Donna approach pedagogy? (01:00) What is the experimental minimum? (04:30) How did Donna reach her scientific breakthroughs? (06:26) What discovery won her the Nobel prize? (07:56) Laser technology (11:28) Gender inequality in science (15:46) Do scientists have a moral obligation to communicate science? (19:21) Final four existential questions (22:53) — Additional resources: 

Physics Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland talks about all things lasers, how lasers relate to nuclear physics, and explains why she had to pay the long-distance bill to Sweden.

Na nossa retrospectiva sempre falamos sobre os laureados pelo Prêmio Nobel no ano. Mas de onde vem esse prêmio e quem foi Alfred Nobel? Os dragões Marina, Rogério, Graciele e Bárbara discutem as regras e as “regras” e até decidem coisas importantíssimas ao vivaço!! Links do episódio: Donna Strickland explicando Laser.  Seja doador: Acessem nossa […]

In a new series called Reasons for Optimism, we look at where to find hope and promise in the sometimes grim world around us. We start with Donna Strickland, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics for her research on lasers, and is now launching a new project aimed at restoring trust in science.

Summer Breakfast with Michael Smyth and Lucy Lokan Dr. Donna Strickland, Hero of the Week, Tony Costello, Michael Pachi, Dr. Susan Stone, Simone Bradley, Darren Nathan, Bianca Stone and Best of Behind Closed Doors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Science, technology, engineering and math make up the four letters in "STEM", which is the subject of a new exhibit at the Guelph Civic Museum. In "Iron Willed: Women in STEM", you can travel through the history of science and engage with all the great women that have achieved big wins in science while overcoming tremendous social and societal barriers thrown in front of them, even in the 21st century. From Marie Curie to Donna Strickland, the history of women in science has not just been a story about the advancement of scientific understanding and knowledge, but a story about social progress. Old-fashioned ideas about the role women can play in science can be seen in modern statistics, where only about 20 per cent of people receiving physics degrees are women, the lowest of all the physical sciences.  Now, we can all understand the struggle with the "Iron Willed" exhibit, which originated from Ingenium, a group of Ottawa museums, and was then adapted for Guelph with information about local scientists by Laura Coady, who is the Collections and Research Co-ordinator of Guelph Museums. Coady joins us this week, and so does University of Guelph physics prof Dr. Joanne O'Meara  and U of G microbial ecologist Dr. Heather Slinn. With all this brain power on this week's edition of the podcast, we will talk about the highlights of the exhibit, how it was made Guelph-friendly, and some of the interesting things you will find when you visit. We will also talk about the difficulties in getting more women into scientific fields, why the struggle starts long before the first year of university, and we will discuss the best ways to support women in STEM with some personal messages from the guests to their younger selves. So let's dig into the world of Women in STEM, and the challenges they face, on this week's Guelph Politicast! You can learn more about "Iron Willed: Women in STEM" at the Guelph Museums website, and you can also visit the exhibit in-person at the Guelph Civic Museum any time from now until February 20. You can learn more about Royal City Science and their efforts to build a science centre in Guelph at their website, and you can follow 500 Women Scientists Guelph on Twitter. The host for the Guelph Politicast is Podbean. Find more episodes of the Politicast here, or download them on your favourite podcast app at Apple, Stitcher, Google, TuneIn and Spotify . Also, when you subscribe to the Guelph Politicast channel and you will also get an episode of Open Sources Guelph every Monday, and an episode of End Credits every Friday.

Nobel laureate Donna Strickland joins Francois Légaré and Heide Ibrahim from the Advanced Laser Light Source Laboratory (ALLS), located outside Montreal. The panel discusses the specifications of the ALLS laser systems, their functionality, and their applications in molecular imaging, agriculture, and metrology. Jan Lagerwall, head of the Experimental Soft Matter Physics group at the University of Luxembourg, introduces nonconventional applications for liquid crystals, including in sensing, machine vision, and more. "All Things Photonics" is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays.

Only four women have ever received the Nobel Prize in Physics. This episode features two of them! Andrea Ghez unlocked a secret of the universe when she figured out how to prove the existence of a super-massive black hole in the center of our galaxy.  Donna Strickland devised a way of producing far more intense and precise lasers. Those lasers have changed manufacturing, cancer treatments, and eye surgeries, and promise to offer insights into the fundamental principles of physics. Both Ghez and Strickland talk here about their lives and about becoming world-class scientists at a time when women were under-represented, under-appreciated, and often unrecognized for their achievements.  

In this episode, University staff (Kirsty Lingstadt), students (Hannah Rothmann, Grace King and Lucy Parfitt) and Wikimedians (Ewan McAndrew and Richard Nevell) discuss Wikimedia's current role within academia and hypothesize what that role can be in the future. This episode is the first of our Wikimedia Series, which aims to recontextualize Wikimedia's role in academia on its 20th anniversary. The group's conversation begins with each member detailing how they use Wikipedia in their work, then expands to Wikipedia's current and potential role in academia. Throughout, fascinating questions are posed and talked through: Is Wikipedia regulated, and to what extent? What utility does it have in academia? And is there a role for Wikipedia to be a middle ground between academia and the public? This episode serves as a fantastic re-introduction to Wikipedia, and we hope it helps listeners join in on recontextualizing Wikipedia's role in academia on its 20th anniversary. Timestamps: 2:30 - Introductions with each participant detailing how they use Wikipedia in their work 7:22 - The group entertains Wikipedia's reputation of being unreliable and discusses the role of media literacy 13:33 - The group discusses Wikipedia's potential to be a middle ground between academia and the public 19:30 - The group finishes off the discussion by theorizing Wikipedia's potential role within academia Ewan McAndrew, The University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian in Residence, provided the following resources for anyone interested in further readings regarding Wikimedia: Wikipedia on Olive Schreiner, like it or what? Wikimedia in Education (collection of case studies) How Wikipedia keeps political discourse from turning ugly (Harvard Business Review article) Why didn't Wikipedia have an article on Donna Strickland, winner of a Nobel Prize? (Wikipedia Foundation article) Female Nobel prize winner deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry (additional article about Donna Strickland from the Guardian) Music for this episode is provided by Hooksounds. Cover art was created by Eric Berger using a template from http://ereyes.github.io/

In this episode we also chat about how to avoid professional burnout

In dieser Folge stellen wir fest, dass eigentlich niemand wichtig ist (außer, man bekommt einen Nobelpreis … dann vielleicht) Es gibt wieder etwas „Aktuelles“: Einen kleinen Blutspendebericht (ist gar nicht so schlimm, versprochen ;)) Außerdem stellen wir natürlich wieder zwei Wissenschaftlerinnen vor. Mary Somerville war eine (zu ihrer Zeit sogar schon teilweise anerkannte) Wissenschaftsautorin in den Bereichen der Physik, Mathematik, Astronomie & vielen mehr. Was am beeindruckendsten an ihr ist: sie hat sich fast alles selbst beigebracht. Donna Strickland bekam als dritte Frau überhaupt den Nobelpreis in Physik „für bahnbrechende Erfindungen im Bereich der Laserphysik“ & obwohl Wikipedia sich was anderes dachte, war sie auch davor schon wichtig. Paper "Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia" von Francesca Tripodi https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448211023772#

Entrevista a Carla Hernández, académica del departamento de física de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Conversamos sobre mujeres físicas, 4 de ellas premiadas con el Nobel (Marie Curie, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Donna Strickland y Andrea Ghez) y otras que, mereciéndolo, no lo recibieron (Lise Meitner, Vera Rubin y Jocelyn Bell).

2018 Nobel Physics Laureate Donna Strickland knew she wanted to get a PhD, even as a kid. She didn’t know what it was, but if it was the ultimate in education she was going to get it! In the newest episode of ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ we meet Donna Strickland and talk about her childhood dream of a PhD, dealing with failure, being a woman in science and being awarded the Nobel Prize. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Teoria e avvistamenti dei buchi neri: commentiamo i Nobel per la Fisica 2020 Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel e Andrea Ghez con Amedeo Balbi e Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Debbie Hall, Donna Strickland, and Keely Wood, they are all members of EnvironmentaLEE or ELEE for short which is a chapter of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League. ELEE is dedicated to preventing fracking and to protecting the environment and educating the public about environmental issues where they live in Lee County, NC. Mineral rights which are property rights to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors. Mineral rights can be separate from property ownership. Mineral rights can refer to sedentary minerals that do not move below the Earth's surface or fluid minerals such as oil or natural gas. We start talking with Debbie to discuss background and history with the ELEE chapter and how they got started, then Keely explains the issues that they are facing now, and we finish with Donna telling us the fundraising methods and events they've hosted and how people can support in their efforts. Contact and connect with Debbie, Donna, or Keely: debhall@windstream.net, dlsart@windstream.net, and keely@bionaturae.com, or elee_directors@environmentalee.org EnvironmentaLEE chapter: https://www.environmentalee.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentaLEE/ Fracking: https://www.environmentalee.org/fracking-info Coal ash: https://www.environmentalee.org/coalash-dump-info-2 Fundraising events: https://www.environmentalee.org/fundraiser Mineral Rights: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mineral-rights.asp BHARAT Forge: https://www.bharatforge.com/ Background Music Credits: https://www.youtube.com/c/mbbmusic https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial https://www.instagram.com/mbb_music

A special episode following the journey of a team of scientists as they seek to discover the origins of the universe in the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Plus: an interview with Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland.Dr. Donna Strickland is a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo and one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with her PhD advisor, Dr. Gerard Mourou. Benjamin L. Schmitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and project development scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Joseph Serio is co-founder and vice president of Vertex Optics Inc.All Things Photonics is produced by Photonics Media and airs every other Tuesday. You can find links to the stories mentioned in the episode on our website, www.photonics.com/podcast.

Em mais de 100 anos, o Prêmio Nobel da Física laureou 209 cientistas. Entre eles, apenas 3 mulheres conseguiram alcançar essa premiação, e eu falo um pouco sobre suas incríveis trajetórias: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Maria Goeppert-Mayer e Donna Strickland. Esse episódio foi gravado em abril de 2019, época em que eu ainda estava trabalhando como CLT e estudando no doutorado sem bolsa de pesquisa. Na data de lançamento desse episódio, felizmente essa situação melhorou bastante, mas ainda é um grande desafio ser pesquisadora e mulher, a comunidade científica como um todo ainda está dominada pelos homens. Eu sou a Sat e esse é o DOBRAS, um podcast sobre complicações. Fala inicial: Monja Coen falando sobre a responsabilidade de nossas escolhas e o que estimulamos dentro de nós mesmos: https://youtu.be/EU4M78aVeyA

Yes, jaja, joehoe, een bonusaflevering! We hebben namelijk iets te pluggen: ons nieuwe boek ‘Heb je nou al een vriend?'. We lezen een hoofdstuk voor, gooien onze minst-feministische-rubriek en ‘post' een beetje op de schop en roepen je op om toch vooral op vrouwen te stemmen. ENJOY HONINGBALLIES! Koop ‘Heb je nou al een vriend?' hierrrr: Scheltema: https://bit.ly/2Oyh14Q Libris: https://bit.ly/35P1a7P Bol: https://bit.ly/33uHLHK Of niet. Zelf weten. POST Luister hier de aflevering met Meredith Greer terug over woede, waarin we de brief van Barbara bespraken: https://spoti.fi/35JM6YY Vrouwen maken nou eenmaal minder snel goede muziek: ‘Er zijn gewoon niet veel geschikte vrouwelijke acts', line-up bazen over door mannen gedomineerde line-ups op festivals in NRC: https://bit.ly/2Rc6qy6 Robert van Gijssel in De Volkskrant over Primavera: https://bit.ly/2DIdxqt De wiki van Donna Strickland: https://bit.ly/2q4JXrJ En vooruit, hier ook de wiki van scheetmeneer Joseph Pujol: https://bit.ly/33BtHfu Meer over Top 2000 vrouwenstemmen: http://top2000vrouwenstemmen.nl/ De DAMN, HONEY top 2000 op Spotify: https://spoti.fi/35QAeEy Wil je ook graag post insturen of een follow up geven van een brief die je eerder instuurde? Dat kan via info@damnhoney.nl. En volg ons toch vooral op Insta om op de hoogte te blijven van alles DAMN, HONEY: https://bit.ly/2DzXiLG Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Une nouvelle recherche de l’université McGill a permis d’observer et d’expliquer pourquoi le pérovskite, un type de cristal, a des propriétés photovoltaïques hyper efficaces permettant d’optimiser les piles solaires. Avec Véronique Morin et Charles Trahan

The 2019 Nobel Prizes for chemistry and physics were awarded this week, and — as is the case most of the time — they went to men. That's despite steps the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which runs the Nobel program, took just last year to be more inclusive.The academy's secretary-general, Göran K. Hansson, sent a letter to scientists asking them to take geography and gender into consideration in their nominations and asked more women to suggest candidates.But efforts to diversify Nobel winners are slow going, and there's a long history to overcome: Of the more than 600 Nobel Prizes that have been given out in the sciences, just 20 have gone to women. Some other prize categories, such as peace and literature, are more diverse, but they are considered more “acceptable” for women. (The 20 awards include prizes in physiology or medicine, chemistry and physics.)But those prizes have also had their challenges. The Nobels haven't been spared from modern movements like #MeToo; last year, because of a complicated sexual harassment scandal, the Royal Swedish Academy didn't award a prize for literature — so there are two awards in that category this year.Related: Nobel Literature prize award postponed amid turmoil over sex scandalHansson told the journal Nature that he couldn't do more to increase diversity because of a covenant laid down by the original funder of the prizes, Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. Nobel explicitly said nationality shouldn't be considered in awarding winners.“It's important to remember that the Nobel Prize is awarded for discoveries and inventions, and those who receive it have made major contributions to humankind, and that's why they get the prize.”Göran K. Hansson, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, secretary-general “It's important to remember that the Nobel Prize is awarded for discoveries and inventions,” Hansson said at the 2018 press conference to announce the Nobel Prize winner for physics, “and those who receive it have made major contributions to humankind, and that's why they get the prize.”At that press conference, Canadian Donna Strickland was named winner for her work on lasers. She became the first woman to receive a Nobel for physics in 55 years. She took questions from reporters, and seemed surprised when one told her she was only the third woman ever to earn a Nobel for physics. (It went to French physicist Marie Curie in 1903, who was also awarded the Nobel in chemistry in 1911, and German-born American physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer received the physics Nobel in 1963.)The scene was not quite the same this year when the Nobel committee announced its prize for chemistry to three men in an Oct. 9 press conference.Related: Physics Nobel for laser pioneers includes first woman in 55 years“I thought there might have been more,” Strickland said. “Obviously, we need to celebrate women physicists because we're out there. And hopefully, in time, it'll start to move forward at a faster rate, maybe. I don't know what to say. I'm honored to be one of those women.”(Strickland was promoted to full professor within weeks of the announcement of her Nobel win.)Hansson, joining in, said, “We expect more to come.”There's no way to know who's been nominated for a Nobel; those names are kept confidential for 50 years. So, at that 2018 press conference, a reporter asked just for the percentage: How many women were among the total number of nominees? Hansson said he didn't have that in front of him.“It's a small percentage that's for sure,” Hansson said. “And that's why we're taking measures to encourage more nominations. Because we don't want to miss anyone.”His academy colleague, physics professor Olga Botner, added that the percentage is small because a few decades ago, there were many fewer women in science.“So, the number has been increasing steadily over the years, but the number of nominations rather reflect the percentages as they were, say, two or three decades back in time,” she said.“Thank you,” Hansson responded. “Good point.”Related: Fighting the STEM gender gap with stories of trailblazing female scientistsBut is it? Liselotte Jauffred investigated.“I think it was a dinner table discussion,” said Jauffred, an associate physics professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. “We were thinking, ‘Is it just by random that they only chose men?'”So, she and her colleagues used historical data and modeling to find out if the smaller number of women in scientific fields fully accounts for the low number of female Nobel laureates. They published a paper about it last October. The results, Jauffred says, are clear — even accounting for fewer women in the sciences throughout history, women are underrepresented among Nobel Prize winners.“With 95% probability, there is a bias against women,” she said.And there are plenty of examples of women who seem to have deserved the Nobel Prize.Claudia Rankins, co-founder of the Society of STEM Women of Color, points to Lise Meitner, the Austrian physicist who Rankins argues discovered nuclear fission. Meitner fled Nazi persecution, but refused to work on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Her teammate, Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize for their work in 1944.Related: Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize“And that's just one example,” said Rankins, who is also a program officer at the National Science Foundation, but is speaking here only of her personal views. “I'm sure you can find throughout history, and even now, many other examples where men and women worked side by side, and the man gets the prize.”The Swedish Academy can't give Nobels to those who might have been overlooked; its own rules don't allow posthumous awards.Women and people of color are still underrepresented in many scientific fields. And they don't rise as fast: Rankins points out that when Strickland won the physics Nobel last year, she was still an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, despite her accomplishments. Recent studies suggest that women have been winning more science awards, but those awards often pay less, are lower status, and have to do with teaching, not research.Rankins said being a woman or minority in a largely white, male field can still be a daily hardship.“It takes a toll on you on your health and well-being,” she said. “And then for somebody to say, ‘Hmm, there are only white men scientifically advanced enough to be worthy of the Nobel Prize,' just sort of adds insult to injury.” 

The 2019 Nobel Prizes for chemistry and physics were awarded this week, and — as is the case most of the time — they went to men. That’s despite steps the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which runs the Nobel program, took just last year to be more inclusive.The academy's secretary-general, Göran K. Hansson, sent a letter to scientists asking them to take geography and gender into consideration in their nominations and asked more women to suggest candidates.But efforts to diversify Nobel winners are slow going, and there’s a long history to overcome: Of the more than 600 Nobel Prizes that have been given out in the sciences, just 20 have gone to women. Some other prize categories, such as peace and literature, are more diverse, but they are considered more “acceptable” for women. (The 20 awards include prizes in physiology or medicine, chemistry and physics.)But those prizes have also had their challenges. The Nobels haven’t been spared from modern movements like #MeToo; last year, because of a complicated sexual harassment scandal, the Royal Swedish Academy didn’t award a prize for literature — so there are two awards in that category this year.Related: Nobel Literature prize award postponed amid turmoil over sex scandalHansson told the journal Nature that he couldn’t do more to increase diversity because of a covenant laid down by the original funder of the prizes, Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. Nobel explicitly said nationality shouldn’t be considered in awarding winners.“It’s important to remember that the Nobel Prize is awarded for discoveries and inventions, and those who receive it have made major contributions to humankind, and that’s why they get the prize.”Göran K. Hansson, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, secretary-general “It’s important to remember that the Nobel Prize is awarded for discoveries and inventions,” Hansson said at the 2018 press conference to announce the Nobel Prize winner for physics, “and those who receive it have made major contributions to humankind, and that’s why they get the prize.”At that press conference, Canadian Donna Strickland was named winner for her work on lasers. She became the first woman to receive a Nobel for physics in 55 years. She took questions from reporters, and seemed surprised when one told her she was only the third woman ever to earn a Nobel for physics. (It went to French physicist Marie Curie in 1903, who was also awarded the Nobel in chemistry in 1911, and German-born American physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer received the physics Nobel in 1963.)The scene was not quite the same this year when the Nobel committee announced its prize for chemistry to three men in an Oct. 9 press conference.Related: Physics Nobel for laser pioneers includes first woman in 55 years“I thought there might have been more,” Strickland said. “Obviously, we need to celebrate women physicists because we’re out there. And hopefully, in time, it’ll start to move forward at a faster rate, maybe. I don’t know what to say. I’m honored to be one of those women.”(Strickland was promoted to full professor within weeks of the announcement of her Nobel win.)Hansson, joining in, said, “We expect more to come.”There’s no way to know who’s been nominated for a Nobel; those names are kept confidential for 50 years. So, at that 2018 press conference, a reporter asked just for the percentage: How many women were among the total number of nominees? Hansson said he didn’t have that in front of him.“It’s a small percentage that’s for sure,” Hansson said. “And that’s why we’re taking measures to encourage more nominations. Because we don’t want to miss anyone.”His academy colleague, physics professor Olga Botner, added that the percentage is small because a few decades ago, there were many fewer women in science.“So, the number has been increasing steadily over the years, but the number of nominations rather reflect the percentages as they were, say, two or three decades back in time,” she said.“Thank you,” Hansson responded. “Good point.”Related: Fighting the STEM gender gap with stories of trailblazing female scientistsBut is it? Liselotte Jauffred investigated.“I think it was a dinner table discussion,” said Jauffred, an associate physics professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. “We were thinking, ‘Is it just by random that they only chose men?’”So, she and her colleagues used historical data and modeling to find out if the smaller number of women in scientific fields fully accounts for the low number of female Nobel laureates. They published a paper about it last October. The results, Jauffred says, are clear — even accounting for fewer women in the sciences throughout history, women are underrepresented among Nobel Prize winners.“With 95% probability, there is a bias against women,” she said.And there are plenty of examples of women who seem to have deserved the Nobel Prize.Claudia Rankins, co-founder of the Society of STEM Women of Color, points to Lise Meitner, the Austrian physicist who Rankins argues discovered nuclear fission. Meitner fled Nazi persecution, but refused to work on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Her teammate, Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize for their work in 1944.Related: Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize“And that's just one example,” said Rankins, who is also a program officer at the National Science Foundation, but is speaking here only of her personal views. “I'm sure you can find throughout history, and even now, many other examples where men and women worked side by side, and the man gets the prize.”The Swedish Academy can’t give Nobels to those who might have been overlooked; its own rules don’t allow posthumous awards.Women and people of color are still underrepresented in many scientific fields. And they don’t rise as fast: Rankins points out that when Strickland won the physics Nobel last year, she was still an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, despite her accomplishments. Recent studies suggest that women have been winning more science awards, but those awards often pay less, are lower status, and have to do with teaching, not research.Rankins said being a woman or minority in a largely white, male field can still be a daily hardship.“It takes a toll on you on your health and well-being,” she said. “And then for somebody to say, ‘Hmm, there are only white men scientifically advanced enough to be worthy of the Nobel Prize,’ just sort of adds insult to injury.” 

In a special extended interview, Donna Strickland reflects on the year after winning the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 and discusses her plans and hopes for the future. Faculty members become fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and its College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Waterloo receives the Fair Trade Campus Designation. And the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics gets ready to launch. Links in this episode: Fair Trade Campus designation: https://uwaterloo.ca/sustainability/news/waterloo-receives-fair-trade-campus-designation Waterloo Innovation Summit: https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-innovation-summit/ Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics launch event: https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/waterloo-centre-astrophysics-launch-event-future-astronomy Health Careers Conference: https://uwaterloo.ca/career-action/healthcareersconference

In diretta dal National Geographic Festival delle Scienze con Donna Strickland, Gérard Mourou, Tomaso Poggio, Giorgio Metta, Edgar Cabanas

Donna Strickland tells Jim Al-Khalili why she wanted to work with lasers and what it feels like to be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics in 55 years. When the first laser was built in 1960, it was an invention looking for an application. Science fiction found uses for these phenomenally powerful beams of light long before real world applications were developed. Think Star Wars light sabres and people being sliced in half. Today lasers are used for everything from hair removal to state of the art weapons. Working with her supervisor Gerard Mourou in the 1980s, the Canadian physicist, Donna Strickland found a way to make laser pulses that were thousands of times more powerful than anything that had been made before. These rapid bursts of intense light energy have revolutionised laser eye surgery and, it's hoped, could open the doors to an exciting range of new applications from pushing old satellites out of earth's orbit to treatments for deep brain tumours. Producer: Anna Buckley

When the first laser was built in 1960, it was an invention looking for an application. Science fiction found uses for these phenomenally powerful beams of light long before real world applications were developed. Think Star Wars light sabres and people being sliced in half. Today lasers are used for everything from hair removal to state of the art weapons. Working with her supervisor Gerard Mourou in the 1980s, the Canadian physicist, Donna Strickland found a way to make laser pulses that were thousands of times more powerful than anything that had been made before. These rapid bursts of intense light energy have revolutionised laser eye surgery and, it's hoped, could open the doors to an exciting range of new applications from pushing old satellites out of earth's orbit to treatments for deep brain tumours. Donna tells Jim Al-Khalili why she wanted to work with lasers and what it feels like to be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics in 55 years. Producer: Anna Buckley

On the 14th of December, Studentafton and Lunds Universitets Studentkårer had the pleasure of hosting professors Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, the 2018 Nobel Prize laureates in Physics. The evening focused mainly on their life as researchers and their experience of being awarded the Nobel Prize. During the hour long conversation, the professors discuss subjects ranging from the balance between a professional career and family to passion and motivation in the workplace. The evening concludes with a traditional Q&A session where the audience is invited into the dialogue with the guests. The evening was held in the Lund Main University Building and moderated by author and journalist Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson.

Donna Strickland får Nobelpris för extremt korta och intensiva laserpulser som nu används flitigt världen över. Hon trivs allra bäst i laserlabbet, där vi träffat henne bland speglar och linser. Vi besöker också den universitetsstad i Sverige som har flest CPA-lasrar: Lund, där det finns ett tiotal sådana maskiner som används för flera olika typer av forskning. Anne L'Huillier använder CPA-laser för att med ytterligare teknik ta fram ännu kortare pulser, som hon studerar elektroners rörelse med. I programmet hörs: Donna Strickland, Nobelpristagare i fysik 2018, Anne L'Huillier, professor i atomfysik Lunds universitet. Programmet är en repris från 28 november 2018. Camilla Widebeck camilla.widebeck@sverigesradio.se

Wofür Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou und Donna Strickland den diesjährigen Physiknobelpreis erhielten, erklären Matthias Rief von der Technischen Universität München und Oswald Willi von der Universität Düsseldorf in dieser Folge.

Donna Strickland får Nobelpris för extremt korta och intensiva laserpulser som nu används flitigt världen över. Hon trivs allra bäst i laserlabbet, där vi träffat henne bland speglar och linser. Vi besöker också den universitetsstad i Sverige som har flest CPA-lasrar: Lund, där det finns ett tiotal sådana maskiner som används för flera olika typer av forskning. Anne L'Huillier använder CPA-laser för att med ytterligare teknik ta fram ännu kortare pulser, som hon studerar elektroners rörelse med. Programledare: Camilla Widebeck camilla.widebeck@sverigesradio.se Producent: Peter Normark peter.normark@sverigesradio.se

Vamos ahora con algunos inventos y descubrimientos que hicieron las mujeres. Hoy traemos a Beulah Louise Henry, responsable de nada más y nada menos que 110 invenciones y 49 patentes. También recuperamos a Mary Jackson, la primera ingeniera negra de la NASA. Terminamos con Donna Strickland, que ha entrado este mes en el selectísimo club de las científicas que han ganado un Nobel de Física. ¿A que te mueres por saber qué hicieron? Pues venga, pulsa el play

Emlyn tells Emma about the OG ecologist and professionally-trained artist, Maria Sibylla Merian, who described the life cycle and plant host use of ~200 insect species, and Emma tells Emlyn about the research of Nobel Prize winners Dr. Strickland and Dr. Arnold! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link   Sources Main Story - Maria Sibylla Merian Wikipedia Article on Maria Sibylla Merian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian Nature Ecology and Evolution article by Luíseach Nic Eoin: https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/18000-luiseach-nic-eoin/posts/14366-maria-sibylla-merian-1647-1717 New York Times Article by JoAnna Klein: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/science/maria-sibylla-merian-metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium.html   The Atlantic article by Andrea Wulf: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-made-science-beautiful/424620/ Essay by Kay Etheridge, entitled: “Maria Sibylla Merian: The First Ecologist?” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256297016_Maria_Sibylla_Merian_The_first_ecologist    Further reading: Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd   Women who werk Two women won 2018 Nobel Prizes in the Sciences!!!! Dr. Donna Strickland won a prize in Physics for her work on Chirped Pulse Amplification: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/nobel-prize-physics-donna-strickland-gerard-mourou-arthur-ashkin/571909/ Dr. Frances Arnold won a prize in Chemistry for her work on direct evolution of enzymes:http://www.caltech.edu/news/frances-arnold-wins-2018-nobel-prize-chemistry-83926  and https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nobel-winner-overcame-personal-loss-cancer-being-woman-n916391   Music “Work” by Rihanna “Mary Anning” by Artichoke   Cover art Wikipedia

Donna Strickland Helps Writers Add Mindfulness to Their Workday Donna Strickland knows firsthand how painful writing can be. When she started hating the book she was writing, she knew something had to change. That's when she discovered the principles of mindful writing, a practice she teaches in classes and workshops across the US. Mindfulness is that quality of paying attention to what's happening in the present moment without judgment." In this episode, we discuss: the work of Robert Boice interpersonal mindfulness the transformative power of becoming aware of our body what tight shoulders and hunching over the computer might be telling us why short, focused sessions are better than longer ones, and the lure and danger of hypomania suggestions for a few moves and yoga postures that we can use throughout our workday (Hint: they don't have to be complicated!) Links & Stuff Reach Donna via email Donna's upcoming (November 2018) workshop Donna's book, The Managerial Unconscious in Composition Studies How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency, by Robert Boice Mindfulness for Educators Program at Antioch University Ann Bettencourt, who runs the Mindful Relations Laboratory at University of Missouri—Columbia Ken Robinson's TED talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity? [Spoiler: Yes!]   And finally, a big thanks to our sponsor, Hoefel Haus Bed, Breakfast & Bike Hostel

Los premios Nobel de Ciencias de 2018 son protagonistas hoy en Ciencia Fresca. James P. Allison y Tasuku Honjo, galardonados con el Nobel de Fisiología y Medicina, han merecido el premio por su descubrimiento de una terapia antitumoral basada en la inhibición de la regulación inmunitaria negativa. El premio Nobel de Física ha sido para Arthur Ashkin, por el desarrollo de pinzas ópticas y sus aplicaciones a los sistemas biológicos, y para Gérard Mourou y Donna Strickland, por el desarrollo del método para generar pulsos láser ultra cortos y de gran intensidad. Por último, hablamos del Premio Nobel de Química, concedido a Frances H. Arnold, por su evolución dirigida de las enzimas y a George P. Smith y Sir Gregory P. Winter por el “pantallazo de bacteriófagos”.

This week, of all weeks, should have been triumphant for women in physics. For her work on lasers, Canadian physicist Donna Strickland became the first female Nobel Laureate for the field after 55 years. She finally joined a short list consisting of just two other women, Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert-Mayer. But Seyda Ipek barely had time to celebrate. The University of California, Irvine physicist was preoccupied: a dumpster fire had just erupted in a neighboring corner of physics culture.

Stu talks about Donna Strickland, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics, and the third female winner of that prize in history. Claire talks to Chris Gerbing about the upcoming Environmental film festival, and Chris examines the governments latest greenhouse gas emissions figures and finds they are way off target. 

So, as you probably already know by now, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded to another trio: Gérard Mourou, Arthur Ashkin and Donna Strickland, “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”. Specifically, Arthur Ashkin was awarded the prize ““for the invention of optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” and Mourou and Strickland were awarded the prize for developing chirped pulse amplification, a method of generating very short but very high-intensity pulses of light with lasers. In this episode, we'll describe how they made these groundbreaking discoveries, and what they meant for science and physics in the years that followed. But as dismal as the world might seem sometimes, there’s still so much joy to be found in the world of science, the world of physics, and the glorious intricacies of the vast, complex, beautiful and mysterious universe we all live in. And the human ingenuity that has gone into allowing us to discover that, to even make strides towards understanding it, is one of the best parts of our species. Both of these discoveries, chirped pulse amplification and optical tweezers, represent clever tools that we have developed to allow us to probe and explore and understand nature, and there can be few greater undertakings than that. So here’s to the scientists who won the Nobel Prize in 2018, for giving us the tools that can help in many more discoveries to come. That’s all for this special episode. Remember, if you like the show, which consumes my nights and weekends with its fiery lust, there are plenty of things you can do to support us. Visit the website at www.physicspodcast.com where you’ll find a contact form: I read all your email and try to respond where I can, but it’s really the best part about doing this show is actually hearing from listeners, so you can know that if nothing else you’ll make my day by sending your message. Go ahead, punk. There you’ll also find a form where you can donate to the show, or purchase some of our previous bonus episodes. There’s a Patreon where you can subscribe to do that automatically in the future, so you don’t even need to fiddle with Paypal. You can follow us on Twitter @physicspod and on Facebook, Physical Attraction. You can go listen to our sister show, and by our sister show I mean the other thing I record in my free time, Autocracy Now – at www.autocracynow.libsyn.com – we’re just coming to the end of Stalin’s life, which is a great relief both for me personally and the people of the world in general. But, as I always say, the best thing you can possibly do to support is to tell your friends about the show, and to tell them to listen. I have printed up thousands of postcard-sized flyers, so if you really want to go the extra mile or just give people some merchandise with our logo on, get in touch with me and I can send some of those over to you!

Laser are used in some many things around us from computer storage, discs, communication, medical scanning and even laser surgery. Turning lasers from an expensive tool in the exclusive hands of large laboratories to something people all over the world can simply and easily use required groundbreaking physics. As did turning a laser into a pair of precise tweezers. For that groundbreaking research Arthur Ashkin, Gerad Morou and Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018. We find out about lasers, how they're used and how they were made powerful and precise.References: Ashkin, A. (1997) Optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles using lasers,Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 94, pp. 4853–4860 Strickland, D. and Mourou, G. (1985) Compression of Amplified Chirped Optical Pulses,Optics Communications , Vol. 56, Nr 3 How Lasers Work. (2018). Retrieved from https://lasers.llnl.gov/education/how_lasers_work The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Nobel Committee for Physics. (2018, October). Tools made of light [Press release]. Retrieved from https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/10/popular-physicsprize2018.pdf Image Credit: Baxley/JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) frequency comb, 2012

Paolo e Valeria conducono la puntata 224 di Scientificast.Siamo reduci dalla settimana dei Nobel, dove sono stati assegnati anche quest’anno molti importanti riconoscimenti a ricerche altrettanto interessanti. Ne abbiamo parlato approfonditamente nel nostro blog e in particolare in questi articoli:– Nobel per la Medicina e la Fisiologia 2018 a James P. Allison e Tasuku Honjo, per le loro scoperte sull’attivazione del sistema immunitario che hanno gettato le basi per l’immunoterapia contro il cancro.– Nobel per la Fisica 2018 a Arthur Ashkin (1/2) a Gérard Mourou e Donna Strickland (1/2) per le loro innovative invenzioni nel campo della fisica dei laser. In questa puntata parliamo approfonditamente di questo premio con Chiara Trovatello, dottoranda presso il Dipartimento di Fisica del Politecnico di Milano.– Nobel per la Chimica 2018 a Frances H. Arnold (1/2) per “l’evoluzione diretta degli enzimi” e a George P. Smith e Sir Gregory P. Winter (1/2) per “lo sviluppo della tecnica phage display di peptidi e anticorpi”.Nella seconda parte della puntata, Marco Casolino, Giuliana Galati e Silvia Kuna Ballero aprono l’angolo della polemica riguardo il talk del prof. Strumia che ha tanto indignato il mondo della ricerca (e non solo!) con le sue affermazioni sessiste.Come sempre vi invitiamo, se lo vorrete, a concorrere alle spese di produzione del nostro podcast sostenendo l’Associazione di Promozione Sociale Scientificast mediante Patreon.

Hoy en El Viajero de la Ciencia… Diseccionamos los Premios Nobel, os contamos el despido de Elon Musk, repasamos la situación de Indonesia después del terremoto y posterior Tsunami y además una sorpresa desde el mundo del arte. TITULAR 1. El Nobel de Física reconoce a los inventores de las herramientas hechas de luz. La academia sueca ha galardonado a los estadounidenses Arthur Ashkin y Gérard Mourou y la canadiense Donna Strickland por sus contribuciones al desarrollo de herramientas de precisión avanzadas hechas de luz. Ashkin ha inventado las pinzas ópticas que son capaces de manipular partículas, átomos, virus y otras células vivas con sus «dedos» de rayos láser. Por su parte, Mourou y Strickland han desarrollaron un método para generar los pulsos de láser más cortos e intensos creados por la humanidad muy útiles, por ejemplo, en operaciones de miopía. TITULAR 2: Descifrado el primer nivel de plegamiento del ADN Un equipo de investigadores del Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona, del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), ha descifrado cómo el ADN realiza sus primeros pliegues más básicos. Este avance pone nuevas bases al estudio sobre cómo el ADN se empaqueta para poder almacenar toda la información necesaria para la vida dentro de un espacio tan pequeño como es el núcleo celular. TITULAR 3: Más cerca de la caza del noveno planeta del Sistema Solar Un equipo de científicos estadounidenses ha anunciado el hallazgo de un nuevo objeto cósmico, cuya órbita parece estar afectada por la presencia de un gran cuerpo celeste lejano y desconocido. Han denominado al objeto "El Duende". Sigue una órbita alargada y muy lejana respecto al Sol: en el punto más cercano, le separa del astro rey, una distancia 68 veces superior a la que separa la Tierra y el Sol, en el más lejano esta distancia llegaría a las 2.300 veces. TITULAR 4. El Hubble detecta la que puede ser la primera luna fuera del Sistema Solar. Un equipo de astrónomos de la Universidad de Columbia (EE. UU.) ha hallado, gracias al telescopio Hubble, evidencias consistentes de la primera luna fuera de nuestro sistema solar. El candidato a luna se encuentra a 8.000 años luz de distancia de la Tierra, tiene un tamaño comparable a Neptuno y órbita alrededor de un planeta un poco más grande que Júpiter. Este hallazgo podría aportar importantes pistas sobre el desarrollo de los sistemas planetarios y hacer que los astrónomos tuviesen que replantearse sus teorías sobre la formación de las lunas alrededor de los planetas. TITULAR 5: La creación de un nuevo Exotraje Blando multiarticulación. El equipo de Conor Walsh, del Instituto Wyss para la Ingeniería Biológicamente Inspirada con sede en Boston, que ha estado desarrollando diferentes dispositivos robóticos blandos para favorecer la movilidad, ha diseñado un nuevo exotraje basado en tejidos inteligentes que podría ser utilizado por soldados, bomberos y personal de rescate, ayudándoles a atravesar terrenos difíciles y a llegar frescos a sus destinos, de modo que puedan desempeñar sus tareas respectivas de forma más efectiva. También podrían aplicarse a las personas con trastornos neurodegenerativos y a ancianos.

El Nobel de Física ha premiado este año a Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou y Donna Strickland, por inventar técnicas que han convertido a los láseres en herramientas de precisión. Strickland y Mourou desarrollaron un procedimiento para producir pulsos láser muy cortos y de alta intensidad, que han permitido usar láseres para cirugía precisión (por ejemplo en los ojos), y para investigar el comportamiento de los materiales sometidos a campos electromagnéticos intensos. En esta breve crónica os contamos la contribución del otro premiado, Arthur Ashkin, que con sus "pinzas láser" ha permitido manipular objetos tan pequeños que son inasibles para cualquier otro procedimiento. Si queréis saber cómo funciona un láser podéis escuchar el episodio s04e15, en el que os lo contamos. Este programa se emitió originalmente el 2 de octubre de 2018. Podéis escuchar el resto de audios de La Brújula en su canal de iVoox y en la web de Onda Cero, ondacero.es

“The main practical application of CPA so far has been in the eye surgery. It was the first one, and I think it is the one that is used by the most people for something practical.”Donna Strickland on the phone this morning with Göran Hansson of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, after learning that she had shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. CPA is chirped pulse amplification, a technique for producing incredibly short pulses of laser light of very high intensity.A few minutes before talking with Strickland, Hansson made the announcement:“This year's prize is about tools made from light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Arthur Ashkin for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses.“Arthur Ashkin was born in 1922 in New York City. He made his remarkable invention at the Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in the United States. Gérard Mourou was born in 1944 in Albertville in France. And he's currently at the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau in France, and also affiliated with the University of Michigan in the United States.“Donna Strickland was born in 1959 in Guelph, and she's currently at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Drs. Mourou and Strickland did much of their groundbreaking work together at the University of Rochester in the United States.”Physicist Olga Bottner, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, added:“Today we celebrate two inventions within the field of laser physics that have opened new scientific vistas. But what's more, have already led to applications of direct benefit to society. Optical tweezers allowing control of tiny living organisms. And an amplification technique enabling construction of high-intensity compact laser systems.”For an in-depth listen about the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, look for the Scientific American Science Talk podcast later today.—Steve Mirsky[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]

“The main practical application of CPA so far has been in the eye surgery. It was the first one, and I think it is the one that is used by the most people for something practical.”Donna Strickland on the phone this morning with Göran Hansson of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, after learning that she had shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. CPA is chirped pulse amplification, a technique for producing incredibly short pulses of laser light of very high intensity.A few minutes before talking with Strickland, Hansson made the announcement:“This year's prize is about tools made from light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Arthur Ashkin for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses.“Arthur Ashkin was born in 1922 in New York City. He made his remarkable invention at the Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in the United States. Gérard Mourou was born in 1944 in Albertville in France. And he's currently at the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau in France, and also affiliated with the University of Michigan in the United States.“Donna Strickland was born in 1959 in Guelph, and she's currently at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Drs. Mourou and Strickland did much of their groundbreaking work together at the University of Rochester in the United States.”Physicist Olga Bottner, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, added:“Today we celebrate two inventions within the field of laser physics that have opened new scientific vistas. But what's more, have already led to applications of direct benefit to society. Optical tweezers allowing control of tiny living organisms. And an amplification technique enabling construction of high-intensity compact laser systems.”For an in-depth listen about the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, look for the Scientific American Science Talk podcast later today.—Steve Mirsky[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]

Eward van de Vendel is te gast! De jeugd- en kinderboekenschrijver is exact in de kinderboekenweek onze gast, en wordt vijf uur gelukkig van een geslaagd stuk. Maar de hele Nederlandse jeugdliteratuur is zich nog altoos aan het verhouden tot Annie MG. Ype is op zoek naar de blauwe piemel van de Pet Shop Boys en Botte heeft meer met Hielke dan met Sietse. Het gesprek gaat over de liefde, bluegrass-liefde om precies te zijn, en zolang ze binnen de Ring blijven gaat dat goed. Je moet zo weinig mogelijk als Youp zijn, en niet op de fiets in slaap vallen. Donna Strickland en Linda Duits hebben ternauwernood een wikipediapagina, en ten slotte ontmoette Edward de beste broer van de wereld.----Krijg nu 5 euro korting via Botte en Ype op je eerste bestelling bij PICNIC! Ga naar: https://picnic.app/nl/podcast

Dessutom: dagens instrument är dragbasun och vad är egentligen god ton i halloweenkostymen. Thomas tror sig veta vem som skulle ha fått nobelpriset i litteratur i år. Ledtråd är lurvig fransman som inte räds det äckliga och de låga känslorna. En annan ledtråd är Gerhard Hoberstorfer som just nu framför en monolog på Stadsteatern i Stockholm. Han är i studion och läser ur företsällningen Underkastelse. En av årets fysikpristagare, Donna Strickland, fick nobben av Wikipedia i mars. Hon var inte tillräckligt känd för en egen artikel. Well, vad säger de nu då? Per A.J. Andersson, presskonatkt, på Wikipedia svarar på frågor. Vad är egentligen god ton inom halloween-kostymer? Vi frågar Sofia Larsson. expert på modern vett och etikett på SvD. Och så vår serie om musikinstrument. Dagens är trombonen. Mikael Oskarsson från Radiosymfonikerna hjälper oss förstå detta instrument som verkar utmana både lungor, läppar och kräva åtminstone en lång arm. Programledare: Thomas Nordegren Bisittare: Louise Epstein Producent: Helena Huhta

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham demands that Amy Klobuchar apologize to Brett Kavanaugh, and calls all of the accusers liars.Then, on the rest of the menu, House Republicans' attempts to brand US environmental groups as foreign agents, ensnares one of the nation's preeminent environmental law firms; a suspected ricin-laced snail-mail is sent to US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis; and, the first woman to win a Physics Nobel in over fifty years, Donna Strickland, was recently denied a Wikipedia page because her references and scientific work did not meet Wikipedia's high standards to, “qualify for an article.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a surprise inspection at an ICE gulag in Adelanto, California found numerous safety and health risks, along with over a dozen nooses that the guards ignored; and, yet another company in Rick Scott's ‘blind trust' conveniently made millions off of Florida state contracts.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.” -- Shauna Niequist "Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/3/1801058/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland share the 2018 physics Nobel for their work with lasers that have led to numerous practical applications, such as eye surgery.

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland share the 2018 physics Nobel for their work with lasers that have led to numerous practical applications, such as eye surgery.

Deze week worden de Nobelprijzen uitgereikt. Bij de Nobelprijs voor de Natuurkunde won voor het eerst in meer dan 50 jaar een vrouw. Donna Strickland is de derde vrouwelijke winnaar ooit en deelt de prijs met Arthur Ashkin en Gérard Mourou voor hun onderzoek naar optische pincetten. Dorine Schenk, die voor NRC over natuurkunde schrijft, komt vertellen hoe atomen met lichtbundels op hun plek gehouden kunnen worden.De winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor Chemie wordt woensdag bekend gemaakt. Ook die zullen de Onbehaarde Apen in een bonusaflevering bespreken. Abonneer je om niets te missen!Benieuwd naar waarom het winnende onderzoek zo bijzonder is of heb je een andere vraag? Mail ons op podcast@nrc.nl.Presentatie: Lucas Brouwers en Hendrik SpieringProductie: Mirjam van Zuidam@lucasbrouwers // @hendrikspiering // @dorineschenk

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland shared the Nobel Prize for finding ways to control and enhance laser light, leading to numerous common applications. 

En optisk pincett och kniv av korta och intensiva laserpulser. Det är uppfinningar som belönas med årets Nobelpris i fysik. Arthur Ashkin får halva priset för den optiska pincetten. Gerard Mourou och Donna Strickland får dela på den andra halvan för utvecklingen av de rekortkorta och intensiva laserpulserna. Vi reder ut uppfinningarnas betydelse med Ulf Danielsson, professor i teoretisk fysik vid Uppsala Universitet. Donna Strickland är den tredje kvinna någonsin att få Nobelpris i fysik och den första sedan 1963. Camilla Widebeck camilla.widebeck@sverigesradio.se Ulrika Björkstén ulrika.bjorksten@sverigesradio.se

El mensaje del senador Carlos Antonio Losada, quien en representación del partido de la Farc, les pidió a Iván Márquez y alias El Paisa que reconsideren su postura de señalar que el acuerdo de paz es un fracaso y de que lo pactado en La Habana fue traicionado, se convierte en una evidencia más de la fractura que existe en la antigua dirigencia de ese movimiento. El lunes en la noche se reveló una carta en la que Márquez y El Paisa, cuyo paradero se desconoce y quienes ni siquiera han enviado abogados a la JEP para explicar si están o no dentro del proceso de paz, señalaron que la inseguridad jurídica y las modificaciones al acuerdo lo hacen inviable. Ante esa declaración, la Farc señala que el proceso tiene falencias, pero también avances y que no son posibles aún dictámenes definitivos. Escuche el análisis con Edulfo Peña, editor político de EL TIEMPO. Además, en este nuevo episodio de ‘Al cierre, con Andrés Mompotes’, ¿por qué la Corte Constitucional decidió meterle el diente al tema de las relaciones laborales que se dan en las empresas a través de la red de mensajería WhatsApp?, los movimientos del mercado de los colchones, sector que se ha convertido en uno de los de mostrar en medio de la lenta reactivación de la industria colombiana y ¿qué viene en la entrega de los premios Nobel, luego de que este martes premiaron en la categoría de física a tres investigadores, entre ellos Donna Strickland, la primera mujer en obtener la distinción en esta categoría en 55 años?

You will not want to miss the 3rd Annual Tar Heel Bigfoot Roundup in Sanford, North Carolina on Saturday, August the 11th, from 1 pm to 8:30 pm!  The event is being held at the Lee County Co-op Extension Center and all proceeds go to an extremely worthy cause.  The speakers are graciously donating there time to charity and are excited to be able to have the chance to network with other investigators and witnesses to this enigma we call Bigfoot! Debbie Hall from the "Environmentalee" and Donna Strickland from "Spirits of Sanford" are the wonderul ladies who brought all of this together 3 years ago as a way to bring funding to assist in the efforts to stop fracking and coal ash dumping in their communities in the beautiful state of North Carolina. With the support of many generous folks, they are bringing this fun filled family event to you so come out to hear the many stories and eyewitness testimonies as well as the investigators who will be sharing some of their research results from the forests of North Carolina!  Also, Monster X Radio host Julie Rench will be attending to report all of the highlights of the Roundup and will be taking video, photos and interviewing some of the speakers!   Are Bigfoot roaming the wilds of the Tar Heel state?  Be sure to get your tickets soon to find out, hurry seating is limited! For more information about this event or to purchase your tickets go here: https://www.environmentalee.org/tarheel-bigfoot Get full access to everything Monster X by becoming a “X” today! $9.97/mo. (first two weeks free) -OR- Just $49 for a full year (save 59%) at: http://monsterxradio.com/monster-x-clusive/