Intellectualism
Mental perspective
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| June 2024 | Chomsky was discharged from the hospital to continue recovery at home. In the same month, false reports of his death circulated on social media, leading to retracted obituaries. |
| June 2023 | Suffered a stroke and moved to Brazil full-time. |
| February 15 2023 |
Paul Berg
Paul Berg passed away at the age of 96, marking the end of a significant career in biochemistry and molecular biology.
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| April 2020 |
Intellectual humility
A large-scale international study involving nearly 50,000 participants from over 68 countries was conducted during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, examining the relationship between open-mindedness and rejection of conspiracy theories.
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| 2019 |
Giorgos Seferis
Final volume of posthumous Days–diaries published, completing the 9-volume set
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| 2019 |
Jill Green
Served as interim director of the UNCG School of Dance while Janet Lilly was on sabbatical.
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| April 2019 |
Jill Green
Retired from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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| 2017 | Taught a short-term politics course at the University of Arizona. |
| 2017 | Hired as a part-time professor in the University of Arizona's linguistics department, with duties including teaching and public seminars. |
| 2017 |
Jill Green
Awarded the Outstanding Dance Education Research Award at the National Dance Education Conference and invited as keynote speaker at the International Symposium of the Performing Arts in Brazil.
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| October 2016 |
Jill Green
Delivered a TedXTalk in Winston-Salem on stress and tension in the body.
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| 2015 | Released the documentary 'Requiem for the American Dream', which summarizes his views on capitalism and economic inequality. |
| 2015 | Purchased a residence in São Paulo, Brazil, and began splitting time between Brazil and the U.S. |
| 2015 | Chomsky and Valeria Wasserman acquired a home in Brazil. |
| 2014 | Chomsky married Valeria Wasserman. |
| October 7 2012 |
Niels Bohr
Google celebrated Bohr's 127th birthday with a Google Doodle depicting the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom.
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| 2011 | Supported the Occupy movement, speaking at encampments and publishing on the movement, which he described as a reaction to a 30-year class war. |
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