Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.
Maria Corina Machado – awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize – has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Chemistry laureate Roger Kornberg's scientific contributions include determining the structure of the enzyme active in DNA transcription. His father Arthur Kornberg was awarded the 1959 medicine prize – genes clearly run in the family.
"I refuse to accept that world is so poor, when just one week of global military expenditure can bring all our children into classrooms."
On International Day of Education, we honour @k_satyarthi who has dedicated his life for children's right to education.
#CommitToEducation
C. V. Raman mentioned in a 1934 public lecture at Bangalore✍️
There is no Heaven, no Swarga, no Hell, no rebirth, no reincarnation and no immortality. The only thing that is true is that a man is born, he lives and he dies. Therefore, he should live his life properly.
Sir Arthur Lewis originally wanted to be an engineer but as a young man in Saint Lucia, a British colony, in the 1930s he was not able to because of the colour of his skin. Instead Lewis went onto study economics.
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The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught
“Einstein has made a universe and I can’t tell you how long that will last.”
Literature laureate Bernard Shaw pays tribute to physics laureate Albert Einstein at the Savoy Hotel in London, England on 27 October 1930.