The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Sustainable Chemistry, SusChem-Spain has granted the 13th SusChem Awards to Young Chemistry Researchers. These awards recognise,
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Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Pablo Neruda’s Odes
When Pablo Neruda published his first of three collections of odes the
Odas elementales (Elementary Odes) in 1954, he was probably unaware that his Russian hero, Pushkin, had written 130 years earlier that odes were the lowest form of poem because they lacked a “plan” and because mere “rapture” excluded the kind of “tranquility” which, Pushkin said, was “an indispensable condition” of the highest beauty.”
Fortunately, Neruda
does achieve rapture, tranquility, and immense beauty in many of the
Odes. Nevertheless, his aim was to speak to the ordinary people in the street about ordinary things using the language of the street. He praises simple objects like onions and tomatoes. I cannot agree with René de Costa’s view that Neruda designed the ode “as a didactic artifice.” Neruda’s odes are neither didactic nor artificial. Many seem genuinely full of his awe at the beauty around him. His ent
Before Michael Saiger won at least six PPE contracts worth in excess of £200 million from the United Kingdom’s Department Of Health And Social Care (DHSC) last year, he designed stylish gold and silver bracelets. Based in Miami and set up in 2009, Saiger’s jewellery brand is called Miansai, a combination of the first letters of the founder’s full name: Michael (“Mi”), Andrew (“an”) and Saiger (“sai”). One of Saiger’s bestselling pieces is the Nexus rope bracelet in sterling silver and nylon. Today, it is on sale through the Miansai website for £50.
Saiger looks younger than his 35 years. He’s slight, with a narrow frame not unlike that of a rookie Formula One racing driver. He has sharp, backlit eyes, a neat low fade with side-parting haircut and a perfectly manicured five-day beard. As we sit down to talk, the strain of running multiple businesses and supporting a young, expanding family shows a little under his eyes; a few days beforehand he and his wife, R
daily dose of trivia for all the history buffs out there. So sit back and take a ride to all the fascinating things that happened today!
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 11th of April”.
1831Lewis Chess piece gets exhibited
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The 12th century Lewis chess pieces are exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sandbank on the Scottish Isle of Lewis.