Showing posts with label current events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label current events. Show all posts

July 5, 2022

Ukrainian mathematician gets Fields medal

BREAKING: Maryna Viazovska, a Ukrainian sphere-packing number theorist, has been awarded the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor. She is the second woman to receive the medal in its 86-year history

QUANTA MAGAZINE: In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math

March 23, 2022

Boundless love - a viral image of an Ukrainian refugee

 

Ukrainian refugee with two cats and a dog manages to walk across the border into Medyka, Poland. 

Photo: Aleksandra Szmigiel. 

(via LorenzoTheCat)

March 2, 2022

Writers for Ukraine

 

Never Give UP!!!!

Amazing movie for Ukraine, featuring writers from around the world including our own Daniela Voicu.

October 22, 2021

Outstanding reporting from Romania (RECORDER): "The Great White Clan"


From the RECORDER investigative journalist:

"after 8 months of undercover investigation I discovered a secret network in which businessmen, politicians and prelates from the top of the Church work hand in hand in a mega-business: the construction and rehabilitation of churches with public money. All this network operates with the blessing of the most powerful person in the Romanian Orthodox Church, whom his people call the Great White"