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Madeleine Albright Chats with Henry Paulson about Career, Foreign Policy

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2013Politicsafghanistan, albright capital management, albright stonebridge group, american involvement, arab leaders, best decision making, Britain, central, China, chinese embassy, co ed, conflict in bosnia, decision-making, do ability doctrine, eastern europe, economic, environmental challenges, foreign policy issues, france, global strategy firm, investment advisory firm, jon huntsman, madeleine albright, medal of freedom, multilateralism, munich agreement, native czechoslovakia, nazi germany, no fly zone, paulson institute, president barack obama, president bill clinton, presidential, robert b zoellick, secretary of state, soviet union, state department, syria, united states, university of chicago, US, us government history, us treasury secretary, world affairs, world bank, world war, years of communism

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told an audience at the University of Chicago that her worldview was shaped early in life, when she witnessed the impact the United States had during and immediately following World War II.

Albright explained how terrible things happened to her native Czechoslovakia, when Britain and France signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, allowing Nazi Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia without its consent. Only when the United States entered World War II did Czechoslovakia’s plight improve. However, after the war, when the United States and its allies allowed the Soviet Union to liberate Central and Eastern Europe, it led to 50 years of communism. (more…)

‘Finally American’: Poet Discusses Impact of Inaugural Poem

By Guest PostFebruary 11, 2013Culture, Politicsamerican holiday, ancestors, building bridges, cuban immigrants, cultural negotiation, cutting sugar cane, elizabeth alexander, emotional historian, ezra stiles college, finally american, idealized america, impact, inaugural poem, inauguration platform, james taylor, math whiz, mathematics, miami beach, natural bent, new haven residents, one today, podium, poet, poetry, president barack obama, richard blanco, san giving, second inauguration, stephen pitti, sub genre, venus, vice president, washington mall, working class, writing a poem, yale professor

Is the inaugural poem a new sub-genre of poetry? According to two practitioners of the form, the answer might be “yes.”

Poet Richard Blanco and Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander, two of only five poets in history to have created works for a presidential inauguration, came together on Feb. 5 for a poetry reading and dialogue about their unique shared experience. Blanco read his work “One Today” at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, while Alexander read her “Praise Song for the Day” at Obama’s first. Their discussion was hosted by Ezra Stiles College master Stephen Pitti. (more…)

Research by CU-Boulder Physicists Creates ‘Recipe Book’ for Building New Materials

By Guest PostJanuary 1, 2013Scienceamherst, bohdan senyuk, China, coffee cup, colloids, colorado boulder, continuously deformed, creation, ivan smalyukh, liquid crystal, liquid crystal displays, materials genome initiative, mathematical theorems, Pennsylvania, president barack obama, qingkun liu, randall kamien, recipe book, robert kusner, sailing he, tiny particle, tom lubensky, topology, university, university of massachusetts, White House, zhejiang university

By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.

The findings show that researchers can create a “recipe book” to build new materials of sorts using topology, a major mathematical field that describes the properties that do not change when an object is stretched, bent or otherwise “continuously deformed.” Published online Dec. 23 in the journal Nature, the study also is the first to experimentally show that some of the most important topological theorems hold up in the real material world, said CU-Boulder physics department Assistant Professor Ivan Smalyukh, a study senior author. (more…)

Religion: Convergence of Cultures or Clash of Creeds?

By PravdaAugust 15, 2010Cultureabraham, adhan, afghanistan, Bible, bubonic plague, bullet, burqah, christian crusaders, doctrine, god, ground zero, islamic calendar, jesus, jewish, józsef molnár, koran, last supper, moslems, mosque, mother nature, muezzin, new testament, ortega y gasset, Paris, patriarch abraham, pravda, prayer, president barack obama, prophet mohammed, ramadan, talmud, tel aviv, timothy bancroft-hinchey, Wikipedia

With the beginning of Ramadan, the Ninth Month of the Islamic Calendar, come hot debates, as to whether Moslems should be allowed to slit the throats of sheep in public, to make the call to prayer (Adhan) in non-Moslem communities, to build a Mosque near Ground Zero.

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Madeleine Albright Chats with Henry Paulson about Career, Foreign Policy

‘Finally American’: Poet Discusses Impact of Inaugural Poem

Research by CU-Boulder Physicists Creates ‘Recipe Book’ for Building New Materials

Religion: Convergence of Cultures or Clash of Creeds?