Breathing the same air as Stephen-freaking-Hawking
He's the King of All Nerds, the Overlord of Physics, and he’s coming to Waterloo
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Renowned physicist to spend six-weeks at Perimeter Institute
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Neil Turok’s appointment as executive director of Perimeter Institute continues to be ignored in Canada and followed with interest elsewhere. But this piece is particularly interesting because it...
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This research chair comes with wheels and a car battery
We told you this new guy Neil Turok had pull. From Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to...
View ArticleThey wouldn’t make this kind of fuss if he wasn’t coming to visit
From the Inkless emailbox, news of…of news of Stephen Hawking, who has been ill: Waterloo, Ontario – October 15, 2009 – On Saturday, October 17, at 4pm EDT, Canada’s Perimeter Institute will make...
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Newsmakers
Madonna fiddles while Joni burns Canadian singer Joni Mitchell rarely gives interviews—a good thing for Bob Dylan and Madonna. Mitchell unloaded on her fellow folkie, the former Bobby Zimmerman, in an...
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Newsmakers
Run all the way home, boys Prime Minister David Cameron jogged with British troops in Afghanistan Friday and said their mission was about “our national security in the U.K.” The task isn’t a “dreamy...
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The smartest guy in the room
Photograph by Cole Garside Last Sunday an array of VIPs—Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Kevin O’Leary, the angry guy on the CBC reality show Dragons’...
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From the print edition, this week’s column chronicles the public part of Stephen Hawking’s visit to Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. I have stayed on at Perimeter and will continue to do so for a...
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Mind-bending mysteries at the Perimeter Institute
PHOTOGRAPHY BY COLE GARSIDE/ ANDREW TOLSON Not even the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., is immune to the rhythms of the seasons. Summer there this year was quiet and...
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