Arundhati Roy receives the prestigious Prix Européen De L’essai for Lifetime Achievement

Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Arundhati Roy has been awarded the 45th Prix Européen de l’Essai for Lifetime Achievement. The European Essay Prize is the first literary award dedicated…

Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2023 an Julian Assange 

Hackaday Prize 2023: This Challenge Makes It So Easy Being Green

This year’s Hackaday Prize is our first nice round number – number ten! We thought it would be great to look back on the history of the Prize and cherry-pick our favorite themes from the past. Last…

Bertrand Russell: "What desires are politically important?" 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech

Audio source: KPFA, kpfahistory.info 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. Text: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/lecture/

Nobel prizes most often go to researchers who defy specialization – winners are creative thinkers who synthesize innovations from varied fields and even hobbies

Some of the most innovative people in the world earn Nobel Prizes. Scholars of creativity identify what they have in common and what regular people can learn and emulate from their examples.

2022 Hackaday Prize Enters Second Round: Reuse, Recycle, Revamp

Ding! That’s the bell for the second challenge round of the 2022 Hackaday Prize. If your project reuses or recycles what would otherwise be waste materials, or helps you to do the same for fu…

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Terms of eligibility can be as revealing through those they exclude as through those they welcome. The first O. Henry Prize collection, published in 1919, ruled out all non-American writers. Yet in…

Automating Mobile Games With A Robot Arm

My Singing Monsters is one of those mobile titles that has users play simple games to earn coins and gems in the usual way. [Anykey] found that his son was a fan of the game, but that sometimes it …