| 单词 | inventor |
| 例句 | Not so long ago he let himself dream of Berlin and its great scientists: Fritz Haber, inventor of fertilizer; Hermann Staudinger, inventor of plastics. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Dad is great, but he’s an inventor and he’d probably tune out while he sketched gigantic catapults and estimated the tensile strength required for a bungee cord to send a one-man glider into orbit. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He came up with a strip of papyrus and showed the old inventor some diagrams and notes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah, and inventors of the life raft, the bullet proof vest, and residential solar heating? Women,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Lucas is a bit of an inventor,” Nina said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Depending on who you talked to, he was an inventor, a scientist, a soldier, or even a lunatic—or maybe all of the above. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One is long life expectancy, which in principle should give prospective inventors the years necessary to accumulate technical knowledge, as well as the patience and security to embark on long development programs yielding delayed rewards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence declared himself pleased for his fellow inventors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The kids loved it,” the product’s inventor told me, “but the mothers didn’t like the idea of kids bowling their breakfast across the table.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z An inventor offered a special invalid chair, although he said he couldn't afford to give it to Garfield permanently. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mom is a teacher in an experimental school and my dad’s an inventor. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z But then, having created that sneakandle and her own radio from spare parts, I’d have thought she was a mastermind inventor already. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The same obsessiveness would surface in his later life, whether in his duties at the Royal Mint or in his many disputes with people such as Hooke and Gottfried Leibnitz, the other inventor of calculus. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Not her coaches or directors or counsellors or the inventors of size 0 and 00. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z As an inventor, he had, obviously, at last, rid the Machine of all defects. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In art, as in language, we are above all inventors of symbols that convey complex thoughts in new ways. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some inventor finally comes up with a solution superior to the existing, unsatisfactory technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Does the history of technology depend on nothing more than accidents of the birthplaces of a few inventors? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the question for our purposes is whether the broad pattern of world history would have been altered significantly if some genius inventor had not been born at a particular place and time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As inventor of more than one thousand radio effects, Nichols had created space-travel and alien sounds for the Buck Rogers radio show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He was not only a friend of King Louis XVI but also an inventor and a writer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But even being a noted inventor who had been given his legal freedom by his father was no guarantee of safety to a black man in Louisiana, so he returned to France. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Ally, how do you know about these inventors?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She was pre-eminently the Goddess of the City, the protector of civilized life, of handicrafts and agriculture; the inventor of the bridle, who first tamed horses for men to use. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo told them about his new hobby as a genius inventor of musical funnels. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Once a device had been invented, the inventor then had to find an application for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The inventor of this bed,” he says, winking. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The genius inventor didn’t want to stand out anymore. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He had Daedalus, a great architect and inventor, construct a place of confinement for him from which escape was impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years ago, she’d inherited the machine from the greatest inventor of all time, and it was loaded with invention ideas, schematics, and diagrams, most of which Annabeth was still trying to figure out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Five years later he was sued by an inventor over rights to the disposable paper diaper. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The inventors hoped that if they improved their device, it would be a valuable tool for all surgeons. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As cyclotrons around the world contributed to the list of known isotopes, rumors and expectations began to surface that the accelerator’s inventor might be in line for the Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That makes it difficult for an inventor to foresee whether his or her awful prototype might eventually find a use and thus warrant more time and expense to develop it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cyclotron’s celebrity as a technological phenomenon fed on itself, fueling its inventor’s preference for engineering and salesmanship over the tedious drudgery of hard science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Larger populations mean more inventors and more competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A good example is the history of Thomas Edison’s phonograph, the most original invention of the greatest inventor of modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His stepdad is fiddling with the wiring, probably rewiring it to do something that’d make more sense in an Iron Man comic, like he does with most electronics—eccentric millionaire inventor habits die hard. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One of those admirers was an intense young scientist and inventor named Haazim Farooqi, who had come to America from Pakistan to study biochemistry. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The inventor’s old eyes were red with anger. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Their inventors, two scientists from South Africa, are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It is the same idea we associate with the name of Copernicus, whom Galileo described as the “restorer and confirmer,” not the inventor, of the heliocentric hypothesis.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed her laptop, which had been given to her as a gift from the inventor Daedalus last summer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t believe it, and you may not either, but Petey’s one of the best inventors on the planet. When it comes to brilliant technical minds in Logan County, it’s him or Evangeleen Ellison, right?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Yes, the vacuum cleaner actually straps onto your back, a chubby fellow who introduces himself as its inventor explains. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Stamitz, who was born 120 kilometres from Prague and baptised Jan Stamic, has probably the greatest claim to being the inventor of the symphony as we know it, though posterity has largely forgotten him nonetheless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Campbell was the inventor and commander of the unit, which was supposed to fight only on the Russian front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The king watched, incredulous, as the inventor and son shot into the sky on their bronze wings, carried by the updraft. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Beetee, an older inventor from 3, who I rarely see because he was pulled into weapons development the minute he could sit upright. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As rumors circulated about the dangers of the new product, ethyl’s ebullient inventor, Thomas Midgley, decided to hold a demonstration for reporters to allay their concerns. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Just wait until the next Olympics, the inventor thought. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been lucky enough now in my life to meet all sorts of extraordinary and accomplished people—world leaders, inventors, musicians, astronauts, athletes, professors, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, pioneering doctors and researchers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was named after its inventor, a man named Horace Fletcher, also known as the Great Masticator. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Once an inventor has discovered a use for a new technology, the next step is to persuade society to adopt it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the great inventor was not at a loss. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Stokum, inventor of the then new and improved Red Stokum wheat, a hearty fall strain which was more resistant to insects and cold than any other wheat at the time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They wanted one of the inventors of the English novel, so I suggested Daniel Defoe—no, he was a dissenter from the Church of England. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "One of my royal inventors made these for me. Remember when you first came to my toilette ritual—on my birthday—and I handed out jewelry?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The taxi rounded the statue of the inventor of the semaphore engaged in doing same, and turned up the Boulevard Raspail, and I sat back to let that part of the ride pass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Would-be inventors, motivated by the prospect of money or fame, perceive the need and try to meet it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When inventors created new machines that could be used for encryption, William’s gift came into its own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Often, discoveries are named after their inventors; from 1597 it became standard to distinguish three systems of the cosmos, those of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Brahe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I told him, “Richard Buckminster Fuller was a scientist, philosopher, and inventor who is most famous for designing the geodesic dome, whose most famous version is the Buckyball. He died in 1983, I think.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Avid inventors tend to swamp physics departments and science magazines with blueprints for incredible machines—machines that eternally generate power without any source of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Ms. Washington let me turn the classroom into a pretend baseball field for my oral presentation on a famous inventor. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z But he was only a salesman, not the inventor, and it was necessary that we make it known that the meaning of his death was greater than the incident or the object that caused it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This inventor, who gave his initials as R. T. E., envisioned a tower four thousand feet tall from which he proposed to hang a two-thousand-foot cable of “best rubber.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Visitors also encountered the latest and arguably most important organizational invention of the century, the vertical file, created by Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The form of the invention eventually adopted might have been somewhat different without the recognized inventor’s contribution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Nico got pushed to the ground and struggled with his chains while the spirit of Minos wailed, “Kill the inventor! Kill him!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I know you’re the inventor, but I invented the greatest acorn picker in the world and it’s ready to go.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “My mom bought a DVD called Schoolhouse Rock. It has a cartoon about inventors.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared with the tens of millions of people in ancient China or Mesoamerica, that meant that Australia had far fewer potential inventors, and far fewer societies to experiment with adopting innovations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was the real inventor of the Running Man. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Daedalus was the worlds greatest inventor. He created the Labyrinth, but much more. Automatons, thinking machines ... What if Kronos wishes Daedalus to make him a new form?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And, really, Edison had tried so hard just because he wanted to beat other inventors, and be more famous. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Midas becomes the inventor of money, “a necessary myth for our time”: After the loss of his friend, Dionysos, he melts down his family’s treasures into coinage, and in so doing, erases history and memory. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z If you are a starving artist, or novelist, or even an independent inventor, the legal system often offers little succor. The Bay Citizen: A Big Hollywood Movie Is Coming, and a Novelist Cries Foul 2011-08-21T05:43:03Z Weather Bureau on an exciting question: Can the dot-and-dash wireless radio of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi also carry the human voice? We know about Edison, Bell and the Wright Brothers, but Fessenden? 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The game’s inventor, Charles Darrow, first developed Monopoly in 1933, from materials in his own home: the cards were handwritten, and the houses and hotels were made from scraps of wooden molding. Monopoly Turns 80: Everything You Didn't Know About the Iconic Game 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Machover — a composer, inventor, educator and researcher into the interface between music and technology — has developed novel approaches to electronics and is a trailblazer in the applications of artificial intelligence to music. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Locksmith and inventor Gwildor unwittingly sets off a chain of events in Masters of the Universe which results in He-Man, Skeletor and co arriving on Earth. Clip joint: five of the best creatures in 80s fantasy cinema 2013-07-24T13:35:27Z The series will chart Lindbergh's life and career as an aviator, inventor, explorer and celebrity. Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black to adapt 'Lindbergh' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z This: The inventor of a foam pillow called “Giza Elegance” was invited to the microphone March 30 and proclaimed that God’s grace allowed Trump’s election. It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Now, however, its inventors are back, and not with just another wacko, attention-getting stunt. After the Satan Shoes, Building a Sneaker Empire (Not Evil) 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In it he created The Culture, a galaxy-hopping society run by powerful but benevolent machines and possessed of what its inventor called "well-armed liberal niceness". Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z He’s a flamboyant inventor, with giddily extreme steps all his own. Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z During the rehearsals, Weiler frequently reminded students of what the inventor Buckminster Fuller once said: “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z It depicted, among other black men, the explorer Matthew A. Henson; the physician Charles Richard Drew; the scientist and urban planner Benjamin Banneker; and the inventor Garrett A. Morgan, who developed face masks for firefighters. A Sculptor of Black Heroes Leaves a Legacy 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Early chapters of “Steel” largely focus on inventors and industrialists: Henry Bessemer, the Krupp family, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Charles Schwab. ‘Steel’ review: Honoring the industry that once symbolized our strength 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Sumerians are credited as the inventors of lipstick, followed by super-fans the Egyptians; both women and men would stain their lips with ochre or carmine. What do Rihanna and I have in common? We know the power of red lipstick 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The event exists at the nexus of Burning Man, wearable technology and the Maker Movement, home of inventors, designers and other do-it-yourself types. Silicon Valley Fashion Week Is No Joke 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Being an octogenarian Japanese inventor instead of a child in care seems to be the secret to a happy life. Kids in care and The Invention of Dr Nakamats 2010-10-06T07:00:00Z Margaret’s sister-in-law becomes a reporter who interviews inventors like Edison and Tesla. Books of The Times: In Jane Smiley?s ?Private Life,? a Marriage With No Sparks 2010-05-24T21:21:00Z “He has embraced a definition of architect to include researcher, inventor, form-finder, engineer, builder, teacher, collaborator, environmentalist, humanist, and creator of memorable buildings and spaces,” the jury said in its citation. Frei Otto, German Architect, Wins Pritzker Prize Posthumously 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The original Cloudy... told of an inventor who devises a food-creating machine Animated sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has gone straight to the top of this week's UK box office chart. Meatballs 2 is UK box office hit 2013-10-30T13:03:51Z An exhibition exploring life’s key moments through the works of inventors, scientists, America’s founding fathers, dreamers and saints. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction A cook, alchemist and philosopher and the inventor of the modern wine bottle, his life seems to have sunk without a trace. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I handled a case involving a guy who never had any money, but was an inventor, and when he was 76, his invention hit, the company went public, and he was worth $50 million. The big lessons from celebrity estate wars 2012-01-26T18:47:45Z The museum also identified the voice of Alexander Melville Bell, the famous inventor's father, in an 1881 recording. Inventor Bell's voice ID'd on early wax recording 2013-04-24T18:59:11Z On a recent Saturday, he’s inside a private room at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery, looking at the work of art that will hang alongside presidents, celebrities, inventors and other distinguished Americans. How an artist captured Fauci’s career in a genre-defying new portrait 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Speaking about today’s young fiction writers, for example, he notes how “the parodists, inventors, miniaturists, and tinkerers are now coming into prominence, taking over from the arid metafictionists.” Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z His “Time Machine” character, an inventor, was known as H. George Wells, for H. G. Wells, the British author of the classic time-travel novel on which the film was based. Rod Taylor, Star of ‘The Birds’ and ‘The Time Machine,’ Dies at 84 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Some of the objects in the show were devised by amateur inventors like the hapless Mr. Henshall. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z "A lot of what motivates Chris to make these things is so that he can discover for himself what the original inventor felt in the process of making something," Schimmel said. LACMA to show Chris Burden's last finished work, 'Ode to Santos Dumont' 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “Saturn” presented an Afro-futuristic utopia and “Black Man” offered an Afro-centric alternative history of America, including perhaps the first and only reference in a pop song to Garrett Morgan, inventor of the gas mask. Stevie Wonder right at home in United Center concert 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z He is not playing a dramatized version of Leonardo; rather, he soliloquizes this artist and inventor’s notes against various shaded backdrops. Peter Capaldi Narrates ‘Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Jordan L. Mott, inventor of the coalburning stove, established a foundry here in 1828, giving the area his name and launching one of America’s earliest industrial parks. In the Bronx, finding hidden ties to Washington 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Here’s an A-Z guide to the gaps between that fictional world and our own, in the hope that inventors will spend the next 10 months wisely. Back to the Future Day: what Part II got right and wrong about 2015 – an A-Z 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Don Featherstone, inventor of the plastic flamingo: Don Featherstone thrills as he peers through the gates, Where a freshly mowed field of lush fescue awaits. Style Invitational: A remeaning task — redefine a word 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In the story, a ruler, so impressed by the game of chess, invites its inventor to name his own reward. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z "Us Conductors", published by Random House Canada, is based on the life of Lev Thermen, the Russian inventor of the theremin, an early electronic music instrument that is played without touch. Debut novelist wins Canada's Giller prize with tale of Russian inventor 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z She graduated at 16, became a teacher herself, and when she was 21, married a man named Frederick Southworth, who called himself an inventor. The best-selling Washington writer you’ve never heard of 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z “A bra is uncomfortable to wear at night,” said Irene Komsky, 47, its inventor, who is a registered nurse in the Bay Area. Fighting Cleavage Wrinkles 2011-08-09T21:22:43Z With that budget in mind, inventors have come up with some very peculiar and pricey products. For the love of artificial hymens: 10 of the weirdest sex toys for women 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The sharks fight for a chance to go into business with an inventor; two fitness trainers pitch their idea for a unique home gym; a young man seeks an investment in his age-defying products. Friday TV Picks: Season finale of 'Grimm' on NBC 2012-05-17T18:42:03Z In March 2011, he famously sent its owner, Richard Desmond, a a withering resignation letter in which he described the publisher as the "inventor of a handy product for lining rabbit hutches". Peppiatt, a real rogue reporter, to star in one-man show 2012-05-17T08:09:45Z American Genius The rivalries between physicists Werner Heisenberg and Robert Oppenheimer and inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are revisited in back-to-back new episodes. Monday's TV highlights: Christopher Lee tribute and more 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z And Frazier remarked how he was inspired to grow cannabis, in part, by agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver — one of Tuskegee’s most famous faculty members. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z And he thought of himself as a scientist and an inventor. Ken Burns on Benjamin Franklin & our nation's flawed identity: "Race is the central question" of US 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z If it sounds very hi-tech, it is – its inventor also works in the biotech industry as the inventor of spinal implants. Losing the booze: five ways to drink less without missing out 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z We like the scrappy tales of the housewives or down-on-his-luck inventor staring at past due notices who suddenly find themselves at the center of empires. "Breaking Big" corrects the myths that make Kylie Jenner a "self-made" success 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Among those arguing is the family of Eugene Stoner, the inventor of the AR-15. Seth Meyers breaks down how ridiculously easy it is to buy a gun online: “You don’t even have to fill out a Captcha” 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Harnessing sun power was only part of the challenge for the inventors: EVX submitted its design to numerous tests to ensure the the best possible aerodynamic shape. A Sports Car Powered by the Sun 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Commenting on this program, he describes both Chopin and Debussy as “inventors of sonority,” composers who “changed the way we hear the sound of the piano.” Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z A character, moreover, who may be jibingly based on the inventor of the essay, Francis Bacon. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z His image as an eccentric inventor informed Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Iron Man, and in 2010, he made a cameo in “Iron Man 2.” How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The stage is set for an epic showdown, and with a clever nod to legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, "K-20" works as a fun alternative to "Iron Man 2." — J.S. May 29 at SIFF: Actress America Ferrera, author/director Sebastian Junger visit film festival 2010-05-29T04:01:00Z “At what point does that nerdy kid become an inventor? When does the kid who dresses weird get praised because he’s a fashion designer?” 9 ways parents can help bullied kids learn resilience 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z “Get it,” a joyful tribute to old-school funk music and dance, is set to Mandrill’s “Can You Get It,” and focuses on locking; its inventor, Don Campbell, is one of Mr. Harris’s heroes. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Often this was done with a slight wink — much like the hamburger, there were other contenders for the title of inventor. Was the cheeseburger actually invented in Louisville, Kentucky? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Ben Franklin’s best-selling “Autobiography” mythologized his rags-to-riches rise from indentured servant to inventor and statesman, and in so doing he further stitched the redemption narrative into the nation’s moral fabric. Renouncing Hate: What Happens When a White Nationalist Repents 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z She sounds very English, and has a degree from Cambridge, but her origins are out of the ordinary: her parents were an Austrian psychiatrist and a Hungarian inventor. David Thomson on Rachel Weisz 2010-05-27T22:19:00Z He’s an artist-scientist who is an inventor, and I mean that very seriously. Yo-Yo Ma Tries to Bring Us Comfort and Hope 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Leonardo, who lived from 1452 to 1519, was an engineer, scientist, inventor and sculptor, as well as one of the finest artists of the Italian Renaissance. Is 16th-century charcoal sketch a naked Mona Lisa? 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z In addition, Carroll was a mathematician, a logician, an Anglican deacon, and an inventor. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z His inventor of spy gear in the Bond books, "Q," was informed by the work of Charles Fraser-Smith, a real person who invented "shoelaces containing a vicious steel garrote" for agents parachuting into France. Great writers of spy fiction have often been spies themselves 2010-05-21T20:12:00Z There is a sensory scientist at the University of California, Davis who is really the inventor of modern tasting notes. How a quest to sharpen my sense of smell made me a more grateful cook 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z His new film, currently called Shrunk, will star Josh Gad as the son of Moranis’ character, Wayne Szalinski, who, like his father, aspires to be an inventor. Rick Moranis to make Honey I Shrunk the Kids reboot after 23-year break 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z For the Alaskan live/work space of the eccentric inventor, they combined two Norwegian properties designed by Oslo-based Jensen & Skodvin Architects. See Ex Machina’s Stunning Sets 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z And in the 1990s, the historian Mark Pendergrast found a recipe in the company's own archives, written by the beverage's inventor. Recipe for Coke causes quite a stir 2011-02-20T06:02:33Z The inventor asks for a single grain of rice to be placed on the chessboard’s first square, and for it to be doubled on each subsequent square. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z His inaugural guest was the inventor of a successful dog harness company who was on a yoga retreat. Behind the scenes at a B&B: The joys — and challenges — of being an innkeeper 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z There’s a moment of giddy disequilibrium as we realize that the world’s most celebrated inventor is a tattooed 40-something named Santiago. In Armand Baltazar’s ‘Timeless,’ People, Dinosaurs and Robots Co-Exist 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z "He was the first one to do what we call `Reality TV,'" said Bob Doyle, a Cambridge, Mass.-based inventor who knew Leacock and maintains a website in his honor. Cinema verite pioneer Leacock dies in Paris at 89 2011-03-24T15:39:08Z But it is also full of actual researchers, scientists and inventors who are working on some fairly esoteric projects. Television Review: ‘Futurescape With James Woods’ on Science Channel 2013-12-23T20:43:34Z Stephenson was a fabulous engineer, inventor and innovator who helped shape our world, but to deify him as they did, at the expense of others, is neither appropriate nor historically accurate. How the BBC rewrote history to disrespect Leeds ... again 2013-02-04T17:10:13Z In the early 1900s, the inventor Nikola Tesla imagined networks of transmission towers that would power millions of pocket-size, wireless communication devices. 6 Reasons to Visit the Antiquarian Book Fair 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Quality sank further when, at the beginning of the 19th century, French and English inventors developed a steam-powered “paper machine.” Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization? 2012-02-17T21:39:00Z Anticipation is understandably high for David O. Russell’s new film, “Joy,” about the late-blooming brainiac inventor of the dazzlingly successful Miracle Mop, and later those skinny velvet hangers. There’s ‘Joy’ in Working Together Again 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Nineteenth-century artists, scientists, and inventors joined hands in creating the railroad system of the United States — the largest in the world. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z Notwithstanding David O. Russell’s “Joy,” a dramedy that stars Jennifer Lawrence as the inventor of the Miracle Mop, it has been a fairly joyless film season. Golden Globe Nods Go to DiCaprio, Iñárritu for ‘Revenant’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The inventor suggested that recorded books could fundamentally change reading. Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The capital that forms the base for the awards was donated in the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and is managed by the foundation, which was set up in 1900. Nobel laureates in line for even bigger pay-day 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The awards were established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel — the inventor of dynamite — and are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896. Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T11:48:00Z Writer and producer David E Kelly, network executive Brandon Stoddard and inventor of the noise reduction system, Ray Dolby, will also be feted at the event. Nirvana to enter rock Hall of Fame 2013-12-17T11:10:13Z The film is a follow-up to the 2009 original, which followed a young inventor who creates a machine that causes it to rain food. Meatballs 2 is UK box office hit 2013-10-30T13:03:51Z Leonardo, who lived from 1452 to 1519, was an engineer, scientist, inventor and sculptor, as well as one of the finest artists of the Italian Renaissance. Is 16th-century charcoal sketch a naked Mona Lisa? 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Inspired by Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, he plans to research artificial organs, and ultimately develop an entire artificial body in his own laboratory. Belgian boy on track to become world's youngest university graduate 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z This strain of the show inspires the sharpest writing, and, in the pilot, also encompasses the too-short appearance of the prolific character actor Stephen Root as Gene’s dad, inventor of a hybrid sports car. Review: ‘Idiotsitter,’ on Comedy Central, Skewers the Rich 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Finally, I tasted; the fruity, spicy sensation made me momentarily understand why the Mayans, considered inventors of chocolate, were said to sacrifice humans in exchange for a good cocoa crop. A Chocolate Tour of the Caribbean 2012-11-09T19:17:51Z In his will, Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel specifically designated the Swedish Academy as the institution responsible for the Nobel Prize in literature. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z We are fantastic inventors, but tend to contribute without razor-sharp commercial instincts. The new Elizabethan age: the arts, architecture, fashion and technology 2012-05-30T19:00:12Z In the book, Allie, an inventor thoroughly sick of modern life and convinced the next world war is imminent, uproots his family from Massachusetts to Honduras, where he tries to create a self-styled utopia. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Just like Edward Scissorhands, Robin was created in the workshop of a hilltop castle by an eccentric inventor. Thicke as two short planks: Robin and Pharrell’s video testimony says it all 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Dr. Dinkle, a genius inventor and bank robber, has developed a new device, the "Liquidator 2000," which allows him to rob banks by turning walls into water. Super Diaper Baby is back in all his powder and glory 2011-07-23T01:23:32Z He credited the saying to Mark Twain, though evidence points to Edwin H. Land, the inventor of Polaroid instant photography. Critic?s Notebook: Avoiding ?Moderato? Becomes a Style 2011-04-17T22:15:36Z He is curator of the Sanctuary’s museum and inventor of extraordinary mechanical devices, including a flying metal owl, which unfortunately calls to mind the annoying bird from Ray Harryhausen’s stop-action movie “Clash of the Titans.” Book World: ‘The Dead Lands’ by Benjamin Percy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Things, however, took a turn in the 18th century, when John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich — the eponymous inventor of the sandwich — manufactured his own sparkling water with some help from chemist Joseph Priestley. We’ve always eaten processed foods — but here’s when they got unhealthy 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Of all the significant awards that could be conferred on Roth during his multilauded decades, only the Swedish dynamite inventor’s eluded him. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Now, it’s like, ‘Oh, I can be an inventor now.’” Take a Look: ‘Reading Rainbow’ Goes Live, With New Friends to Know 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Johns’s approach has been influenced most profoundly by Marcel Duchamp — inventor of the ready-made, lover of chance, gadfly skeptic. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Paxton is perhaps best known as the inventor of Contact Improvisation, a touch-based, weight sensitive, conversational and often athletic dance technique that, since its inception in 1972, has become practiced around the world. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The team: the inventor of the sewing machine, the grande dame of the Grand Ole Opry, the founder of what is now Zimbabwe, and Charles Gulden of condiment fame. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Rohmer himself eventually became, of course, one of the inventors of that style. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors of all time, famously said, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Inventions can happen by accident. Play-Doh, penicillin and canned whipped cream are examples. 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Dusty Springfield, an invention that would eventually possess its inventor, was a theatrical event. Dusty Springfield's sublime masquerade through the American south 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z He later legally changed his name to Josh Edison Jensen, taking his middle name from the inventor, with whom he shared a birthday. Josh Jensen, California Pinot Noir Pioneer, Is Dead at 78 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z She was highly intelligent, with unexpected talents as an inventor that were barely appreciated during her lifetime. ‘The Witch’ and Five Hedy Lamarr Films Come to Disc, Casting Spells 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z One Israeli inventor has already developed a mechanical mask with a mouth that opens and closes, allowing people to wear a mask while eating in restaurants. Masks are changing the way we look at each other, and ourselves 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Old money As with today, cash still exists as a currency - Marty’s inventor friend Doc hands him some notes with which he buys the Sports Almanac - despite a rise in alternative methods of payment. Back to the Future Day: what Part II got right and wrong about 2015 – an A-Z 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The stage is set for an epic showdown, and, with a clever nod to legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, "K-20" works as a fun alternative to "Iron Man 2." — J.S. June 4 at SIFF: 'A Tribute to Edward Norton,' with the actor in attendance 2010-06-03T20:12:00Z The Chinese legal system also looks rigged against foreign inventors. Out of the Master’s shadow 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The occasional provocation notwithstanding, the director Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group, inventors of the theatrical mashup well before the term had even been coined, play it surprisingly straight in their approach to Williams’s play. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z Later, he was an early inventor of electronic music and instruments. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z Daddy cool: Bekirovic says her romantic image of science goes back to her dad: a trained physicist and backyard inventor. Artist of the week 94: Sem? Bekirovic 2010-07-02T14:42:00Z The new "Shark Tank" spinoff "Beyond the Tank" catches up with inventors and entrepreneurs featured on the reality show. TV This Week April 26 - May2: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' on Starz 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Besides being an inventor, Morse was a painter who studied art in London and, returning to New England, sold portraits for $15 each. Carleton Mabee, Biographer of Morse, Dies at 99 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z In an e-mail, Adult Swim described "Rick & Morty" as "a 30-minute animated series that follows a genius inventor grandfather and his less than genius grandson, and the journeys in life they share." ArtsBeat: Adult Swim Orders an Animated Series From 'Community' Creator 2012-10-29T16:14:10Z A children’s music artist and the inventor of the Dermatron, a synthesizer activated by the heat of skin, Haack released “The Electric Lucifer” on Columbia Records in 1970 and a follow-up eight years later. Review: ‘Electric Lucifer,’ or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Sullivan travels the country looking for everyday inventors with new ideas. TV picks: 'Pitchmen,' 'Pitmasters,' Python 2010-08-18T22:34:00Z Thomas Edison remains one of the most prodigious talents in American history, and this landmark new biography of the scientist and inventor goes far beyond his most famous creation, the lightbulb. 18 New Books to Watch For in October 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z “Trade itself,” the inventor declares, “is nothing more than a galaxy of the imagination.” Review | ‘The World to Come,’ stories by Jim Shepard 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z They were rewarded with a hugely imaginative, visually audacious show that blurred the lines between fashion and art as it paid tribute to the ingenuity of Black inventors often overlooked by history. Pyer Moss wows with couture show honoring Black inventors 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Boy and robot then team with fellow superhero-ish inventors to fight a bad guy. How to Build a (Softhearted) Robot 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The name Elisha Otis appears in Kennedy’s essay only once, in a sentence about “other early inventors and patentees of portions of elevator machinery.” The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z They called themselves the “Barn Gang” because they worked in the backyard barn of the engineer and inventor Edward Deeds. Everything Is Bigger at Open-Air Museums 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z If you like living dangerously, you can also sandwich two pancakes between eggs and bacon, as they do Shopsin's for a delicacy as confrontational — and ingenious — as its inventor. The secret ingredient in the world's very best pancakes is mac and cheese 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z For many, he was a spiritual leader as well as the inventor of an exercise class. 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z In David Mamet’s 1997 film, “The Spanish Prisoner,” he played the possibly duplicitous boss of an inventor who has come up with a valuable idea. Ben Gazzara, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 81 2012-02-03T23:38:39Z The king paid a visit to the royal inventor, who created a “wonderful, intricate” little wooden robot, while the queen stopped in on a kindly witch, who created a “perfect” little princess from a log. Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The capital that forms the base for the awards was donated in the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and is managed by the foundation, which was set up in 1900. Nobel laureates in line for even bigger pay-day 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, is full of such stories about inventors and their inventions. Here’s an idea: Visit the Inventors Hall of Fame. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Photographer Spencer Tunick is famous for his images of naked people Scientists, software developers, inventors, entrepreneurs - but also musicians, visual artists, film-makers and designers - are busy creating new human experiences. Tech & art: Engineering the future 2012-10-04T09:01:30Z Or follow the Heritage Trail to see where the Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt lived, and where Washington Irving wrote “Rip Van Winkle.” 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z The story of an unconventional inventor, Commander Caractacus Pott, and the magical car he and his family rescue from “a broken-down little garage,” it is playful and yet full of suspense. Celebrating 50 years of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z He called the Express Newspapers owners as the "inventor of a handy product for lining rabbit hutches". Peppiatt turns the tables on tabloid editors in Edinburgh fringe show 2012-08-03T16:34:00Z All problem solvers and problem inventors have had the experience of thinking, and then overthinking, themselves into a dead end. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Because Stewart was not the actual inventor, and because the actual inventor was born into slavery, the application was rejected. America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z And Nate is an inventor whose motto is “always be ready.” KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Mystery of the Moon Tower’ 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The films can seem like sketched ideas waiting for someone more excited by them than their inventor to invest them with life. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z She was one of the founders of the International Federation of University Women and of the National Union of Scientific Workers, as well as the inventor of patented anti-aircraft searchlights. What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary Somerville got in common? 2013-03-07T11:00:00Z His wife of 33 years, Joyce, understands the hazards of living with Mad magazine’s longest-serving contributor, the inventor of “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” New Sketch of a Madcap?s Mad Life 2010-10-01T15:53:00Z Widely considered the inventor of the shopping cart, Goldman was no slouch as a promoter either. Makers: Grocery Shopping on Speed 2011-12-17T03:36:14Z Roger Easton, GPS inventor: His loved ones pray that as he roamed the sky In search of angels waiting, He heard, “Your destination’s here on high”— And not “Recalculating.” Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Her father, an immigrant from Russia, became an engineer and inventor who worked for the National Bureau of Standards. Zelda Fichandler, a Matriarch of Regional Theater, Dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Lloyd Webber said he was making the character of Rum Tum Tugger a rapping street cat because “I’ve come to the conclusion that … maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap.” ‘Cats’ gets rap twist for West End revival 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The professor, autism spokesperson, scientist, inventor and author speaks specifically to young people at this event, at which she’ll discuss her new children’s book “Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like An Inventor.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Charlie, who lives in a rubbish dump with his poor but jolly extended family, is a fantasist and inventor who has the artist’s transformative touch. Theater Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Opens in London 2013-06-26T16:33:57Z The follow-up is an original story, in which inventor Flint Lockwood must save the day after one of his inventions malfunctions, creating food-animal creatures that overtake the region of Swallow Falls. Meatballs movie tops US box office 2013-09-30T08:36:27Z As the head of the News of the World's special investigations unit and inventor of the "Fake Sheikh sting", he brought the now-deceased Sunday tabloid some big scoops, and enjoyed a swashbuckling notoriety. TV highlights 02/08/2012 2012-08-01T19:29:01Z Intervening in the affairs of benighted worlds is the Culture, an intergalactic civilisation characterised not just by supreme technological power but also what its inventor called "well-armed liberal niceness". Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-08-10T21:55:06Z Few dance inventors have so combined the cerebral and sensuous sides of dance as Ms. Brown did, and few have been as influential. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Past shows have featured inebriated praise for the journalist Ida B. Wells, the inventor Lonnie Johnson and others. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But I want to emphasize that I am not the inventor of this term, it's really in conversation with so many thinkers. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The great inventor fought to secure royalties from anyone using a film projector, which ultimately crushed many exhibitors. The man who saved movies from Thomas Edison’s monopoly 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z If necessity is the mother of invention, then the fringe is currently showcasing a fine range of inventors. Making a spectacle: design magic at the Edinburgh fringe 2010-08-23T13:44:00Z Even though she's married, the social media inventor decides that our heroine must be his. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z Like many of the young inventors she documents, Jacobs has created a project that doesn’t fall apart at first touch. ‘More Than Robots’ Review: An International Battle 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Moore’s novel addresses more than the epic battle between two great inventors. ‘The Last Days of Night’: The flaws of Thomas Edison, both real and imagined 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z During his life, he was the world’s most sought-after scientist and inventor while being a Catholic spiritualist with a fancy for the ultra-exotic and cockamamie. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The most cogent of the commentators, she smilingly suggests that these white men were merely the codifiers of jazz dance — not, as often claimed, the chief inventors. The Dance on Camera Festival, When Dance Is Only on Camera 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Having learned stenography as a young woman, Guy Blaché applied in 1894 for a secretarial job with Léon Gaumont, one of several French inventors experimenting with the potential of early cinematography. A Century Late, a Giant of Early Cinema Gets Her Closeup 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The awards were established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel - the inventor of dynamite - and are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z The date was picked to coincide with inventor Butts' birthday. 15 fascinating facts about Scrabble 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The Inamori Foundation announced Friday that this year's Kyoto Prize also went to a U.S. inventor of one of the most widely used integrated circuit memory systems and to a Japanese biologist. Veteran jazz pianist Cecil Taylor wins Kyoto Prize 2013-06-21T13:06:52Z He was an inventor of new systems of composition, a pioneer of electronic music, and, in later decades, a visionary with a touch of megalomania. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z Then again, he was inventing the idea, and he bent over it with an inventor's sweaty intensity. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z Elon Musk is a South African–born Canadian American engineer, inventor, and billionaire. How will you change your life — or the world? 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z At times the singer, almost never seen without an outfit that suggests the creation of a mad inventor, appears only in flesh-tone bra and panties, platinum-blond bangs, red lips and porcelain skin. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z His father, a journalist on various national newspapers, had a daily humour column in the London evening paper the Star, the main character being an inventor called Mister Tulip. Clive Allison obituary 2011-08-03T18:57:01Z Charles Babbage, the 19th- century inventor and mathematician who conducted groundbreaking experiments with computing machines. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z And this is the place to discover your inventor superpower on an interactive touch screen. Here’s an idea: Visit the Inventors Hall of Fame. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z And then there was the mad inventor Doc Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd, in the 1985 film “Back to the Future.” What’s the Deal With That Guy’s Fluffy Hair? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z This connection prompted the apparent inventor of the dish to take action. Canadian diner removes poutine from name because it sounds like Putin 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Her father, Henry Southmayd Morgan, was an inventor and protégé of Thomas Edison. Priscilla Morgan, Cultural Matchmaker, Dies at 94 2014-04-03T05:01:14Z At the novel’s heart is the story of the prison’s first warden, an inventor named Ransom Cook. An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Also on the list is one of the earliest film recordings and the oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture, produced by Thomas Edison’s team of inventors. Ghostbusters enshrined in cinematic immortality at Library of Congress 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is a deadpan dystopian comedian, an inventor of absurd, highly regulated societies that seem to exist in hidden pockets of everyday reality. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z That is not the half of it, although space constraints mean we must gloss over his stint as an energy drink inventor and blues guitarist. George Foreman fighting Steven Seagal in Vegas? It’s the least we deserve 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In his original concept drawings for the dunce cap, inventor I.M. Style Invitational Week 1253: Fashion x fiction — a fake-trivia contest 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z He also found that the quest for this feeling is frequently part of the motivation that drives inventors and artists to create. Why you can’t stop playing Flappy Bird 2014-02-14T12:50:00Z Later, on his private jet, the inventor plants a kiss on our heroine and she doesn't resist. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z Here are 11 things you should know about the prolific inventor, manufacturer, and businessman. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Part brainy researcher and inventor, part inspired artist and creator, Trisha Brown is one of the great explorers of postmodern dance, with a distinctive body of work that is often off the wall – sometimes literally. Step-by-step guide to dance: Trisha Brown 2010-10-13T13:07:00Z Those around the silents—family, teachers, doctors, inventors—try to cure what they see as a medical malady. Sounds of silence 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “He’s solving a real problem, and he wants to go off and disrupt an existing industry,” Edward Ross, director of inventor platforms at Intel, has said. ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Jarvis’s most recent book likened Jobs to Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, and found both “accomplished greatness through trial and error, vision and determination”. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z In his liner notes for the new recording, he makes a convincing case that both Scarlatti and Cage were “inventors of sounds, magicians of rhythm, creators of new languages that had never been heard before.” At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z “One of little more than a dozen living inventors of film art is Michael Snow,” Mr. Frampton, his fellow filmmaker, wrote in 1971. Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Stadler is upset that the inventor, whoever it is, never published any scientific papers about his discovery. 10 more depraved lessons I learned reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Narrated by Duane Eddy, Radio 2's music documentary about Les Paul , inventor of the revolutionary electric guitar of the same name, was straightforward to the point of old-fashioned and utterly reverential. The Trial of Qwerty; Les Paul: The Final Words of a Pioneer and Guitar Legend; Archive Hour; Farming Today 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Over in Europe, the British inventor Clive Sinclair introduced the ZX80 in 1980, and billed it as the world’s smallest, cheapest home computer. Design: The Clunky PC That Started It All 2011-07-31T13:05:00Z Keep in mind: These are early days. 3D printer ideas will grow increasingly sophisticated and interesting as more armchair inventors get involved. Print your own gardening accessories 2013-05-18T15:00:00Z With help from his parents — especially his father, a machinist and inventor — Mr. Harryhausen was soon teaching himself the basics of stop-motion animation and producing short films of dinosaurs and apes in the family garage. Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:31:15Z As the host of a popular television show in the early 1960s, "Sing Along With Mitch," he has been credited by some with being the inventor of karaoke. Music innovator, host of TV's 'Sing Along with Mitch', dies at 99 2010-08-03T03:35:00Z The inventor of the plant-based protein, Seth Tibbot, read “Diet” and, as he told the makers of a Vice documentary about the future of food, it changed his life. The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z For ages 3-6: A group of monkeys — including Oscar the magician and Mono the inventor — have a hair-raising train ride when a bridge goes missing and the brake lever breaks. NW books | Four books for kids ages 1-14 2013-12-09T22:20:38Z The organization that runs the competition was founded by the inventor Dean Kamen, who wanted to host an event that would develop the skills of young engineers. ‘More Than Robots’ Review: An International Battle 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z His father was a doctor and an inventor of one of the first heart-lung machines. John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z But even the industry’s most passionate inventors acknowledge that mechanical watches have their limits. Unfazed by Change, Swiss Watch Houses Embrace Technology 2013-04-24T15:32:37Z Playing the instrument of the genre’s inventor, Bill Monroe, he took it well past the role that Monroe and acolytes like Marty Stuart had established. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Csikszentmihalyi developed his theory of “flow” by studying artists, inventors, and creative geniuses. Why you can’t stop playing Flappy Bird 2014-02-14T12:50:00Z They pour their problems out to Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville, a doctor in 1880s London who along with a hysteria specialist and an inventor friend develop the cure for what ails them. Rome fest features film on invention of vibrator 2011-10-28T17:29:08Z In a telephone interview on Tuesday, she said: “Richard was as gifted a technician and inventor as he was an artist. He really breathed life into photographic reproductions.” Richard Benson, Photographer and Printer, Dies at 73 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Quan portrayed Data, a kid inventor whose contraptions more often than not fail to work exactly as intended. They never say die: Hollywood should have listened to "The Goonies" 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The haunting story involves an inventor of toys who owes his fame to a deception and spoils his life living it down. What to Stream This Weekend 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Cage inherited his innovative flair from his father, an inventor of cutting-edge developments in submarine, radio and television technology. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z The centres are named after their inventor, Maggie Keswick, who, after being told her cancer was terminal, reflected on "the awful interior space" where she received the news. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Famous people named included civil right activist Rosa Parks, blind and deaf educator Helen Keller, inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. November’s class : Fifth-graders at Belmont Station in Ashburn 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z He got his first job during the mid-70s as a draftsman in the Long Island City studio of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller. The Hidden Feats That Built New York’s Towering Skyscrapers 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z It is fascinating to learn that what drove Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable and reusable hot-metal type in 15th-century Germany, was not service to mankind or the pursuit of technical wizardry, but money. Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni ? review 2010-12-07T15:16:00Z Tharp is an inspired inventor of movement – her phrases can be an almost palpably physical pleasure to watch, with unexpected twists and punches, and often oddball dynamics. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z While patents are an essential protection against theft for inventors, there are those who abuse the system — the so-called patent trolls who stockpile patents and threaten possible infringers with frivolous lawsuits. Watch John Oliver Takedown Patent Trolls 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z And then came their breakout record, “Park-Life,” and their reign as the inventors of Britpop and the era of that Blur poster reinvented as stiffened modern art. That Time My Band Opened for Blur 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z “I wanted to develop a product that would provide a habitual location to keep my phone and put my mind at ease while I’m on the road,” Murray Belt inventor Margaret Murray Bloom says. Travel Wise | What to do if you lose your phone while traveling 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z When the inventor realizes Barren’s presence in the room, a series of catastrophes ensues. Review | ‘All Our Wrong Todays,’ by Elan Mastai 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Part of the family descended from the Montgolfiers, the hot-air balloon inventors; wallpaper, teacups, teapots and shutters at the abbey were covered with images of the balloons. Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z And along the way, we are introduced to new characters like Riri Williams, a young inventor whose technology is coveted by Western powers but hated by the water dwellers. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is in Theaters. Let’s Talk About It. 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Though Leonel is a coffee farmer, champion marksman, motorcycle racer, painter, inventor and scholar, his true identity remains elusive. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Leonardo the artist and inventor are here, of course, but Klein devotes his most enthusiastic attention to Leonardo the naturalist. 'Leonardo's Legacy': Leonardo da Vinci ? artist, inventor, naturalist 2010-06-23T23:37:00Z “This way I don’t have to hold my arms up,” said Corey Beutel, 22, a student at the University of Vermont and the undisputed inventor of the hat. ‘November he will win!’: Inside Planet Bernie’s defiant, Phish-fueled, down-with-the-man Super Tuesday party 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Some young visitors might not be prepared to see them, but it is easy to steer them toward the low-tech but rich displays about African culture, including a deep look at prominent African-American inventors. Atlanta for Kids 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Edmund Abel, Mr. Coffee inventor: The guy who changed our morning brew Achieved a ripe old 92. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z They’re created with complex engineering, and they’re populated by heroes—whether toys, humans, monsters, or feelings—who are inventors, Rube Goldbergian geniuses, or, as in “Inside Out,” diligent functions of the human brain. Pixar's Scientific Method 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Thomas Edison was not the sole inventor of the light bulb. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z He was an inventor as well an explorer, a filmmaker who became an environmentalist and, thanks to his natural charisma and his signature red watch cap, a universally recognized pop-cultural figure. ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Review: The Old Man and the Sea 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Here you will find painters, writers and dancers, as well as the inventor of the modern bra. An artistic Who’s Who of who slept with whom 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z True to the title, there are a few hysterically funny moments as a couple of Victorian-era British doctors and an amateur inventor stumble into the creation of a mechanical device to pleasure women. Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O 2012-05-15T14:30:20Z If these kids are the inventors of tomorrow, maybe there’s a case to be made for letting them experience the Apple Watch up close. Parents, Unite! No Apple Watch for Kids 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z That memorable scene introduces a plot that takes this self-exiled assassin to the Pacific Northwest to protect a software inventor named Matthew Boone from being eliminated by persons or governments unknown. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z When the inventor, Trurl, tries to coax it into giving the correct answer, the huge machine rears up and physically threatens him, stubbornly adhering to its answer. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z In the original cartoon as well as the new film, which opens Friday, Mr. Peabody is a Nobel laureate, a master inventor and a fabulous dinner party host. A career comeback for Mr. Peabody 2014-03-06T19:34:07Z The writer Rebecca Solnit, in her 2003 biography, called Muybridge “the man who split the second,” aligning him with the inventor of the atom bomb. Art Review: Tracing Muybridge, Pioneer of Photography, at the Corcoran 2010-04-26T22:54:00Z It's fitting, given that the inventors of the web – Tim Berners-Lee and his team – were this week the recipients of this unusual design, marking the inaugural £1m Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering. Women in engineering: the girl gap 2013-06-26T18:30:01Z Lamarr, a star of Hollywood's Golden Age, was also a gifted inventor, although most people remember her face more than her intellect. “This is Paris” is a quixotic redemption story about what it means to be a human and a brand at once 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z For his own bar inside the Radio Wave Building, he created a brand with numerous references to Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor who lived there when it was the Gerlach Hotel. Patent Pending in Nomad is a Cafe by Day, Speakeasy by Night 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z "When you don't invest in the inventors of tomorrow, the economist of tomorrow, the doctors of tomorrow won't emerge because you haven't taught people to think in their individual creative ways," he said. Music mogul honors celebs at charity fundraiser 2011-07-31T14:22:08Z But the great choreographers are great directors too: inventors of their own genres of theater. Critic’s Notebook: The Choreography of Tony Nominees 2012-05-28T21:35:24Z “There are professional athletes who use it and people in high fashion and self-professed granola hippies,” its inventor said. Skin Deep: Natural Beauty Products From Brooklyn 2013-08-20T22:36:18Z He has sought out material related to the American inventor Jacob Perkins; in the 1790s, Perkins developed steel plates for printing currency that were considered nearly impossible to fake. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But the question of who is the sole inventor of something is an important question. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z No building on American soil comes closer to that transcendent power than his Salk Institute, a biological research facility in La Jolla, Calif., commissioned in 1960 by the inventor of the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z A new show about a technology company that works to help inventors realize their dreams. Friday TV Picks: 'Quirky' on Sundance Channel 2011-09-01T19:09:03Z He invokes what is thought to be the very first moving image, captured by the 19th-century inventor and adventurer Eadweard Muybridge, of a man on horseback. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z And Mr. Kingsley — who here portrays a librarian trying to get bored students interested in what their teacher calls the “Dark Ages” — is transformed into the turbaned al-Jazari: 12th-century inventor, mechanical engineer, visionary. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z Charles Bradley was another inventor working on AC and was granted patents for his work on both two-phase and three-phase systems. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z And after her divorce from Mr. Peacock and marriage to the renowned pianist Paul Bley it also led her to Robert Moog, the inventor of the analog synthesizer. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prizes were established in the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, and have been handed out since 1901. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z The workshop of the inventor Spalanzani is lacking in gee-whiz gimmickry, and for the Venice scene we get neither Grand Canal nor gondolas. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z In the 1800s, the first photographers harkened back to those themes, among them the British inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, whose “The Open Door,” was a conscious mirroring of the Dutch masters. The ‘Doortrait’ Artists of Instagram 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Lacey has been oddball comedian, actor, painter and sculptor, briccolage inventor of robots and automata, post-hippy shaman, errant guru to travelling bands of new age travellers, and who knows what else. The Bruce Lacey Experience - review 2012-07-06T17:08:31Z During that era, the exhibition asserts, Muslim scientists and inventors, living in empires reaching from Spain to China, anticipated the innovations of the modern world. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z Daniel Okrent is many things — a prolific historian, co-writer of the hit comedy revue “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” an inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball and the first public editor of The New York Times. Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z But then there's the long piece that closes the collection, concerning a mostly forgotten Italian inventor, in which the scripty texts scramble with some hand-stitched illustrations. Mattea Harvey's 'Tabloids' mashes word pictures with imaginative art 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The inventor needs an investor; the artist needs an exhibition. Arts Council chief: 'what happens next?' 2013-07-24T11:05:55Z At 72, no one would fault Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde multimedia icon — an inventor, performance artist, musician, writer, filmmaker, painter and more — for being nostalgic. Laurie Anderson and Michael Stipe on Music, Art and New Chapters 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z And then in the early '80s, being a lifelong tinkerer and amateur inventor, he eased into special effects, creating his first effects at a groundbreaking ceremony for a supermarket in his hometown, Milwaukee. Hollywood's winter weather man 2010-12-30T06:00:00Z Here in the Bay Area where I live, where inventors and engineers are busily digitizing everything, many civic and business leaders are touting something called a universal basic income, or U.B.I. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z There are no lone inventors Topics: , Inventions, , , Engineering, , Nikola Tesla, aged 40, c. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z Her mother will be so proud when she tells her that she's leaving her husband for a social media inventor. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z A brief listing of notable Black American inventors. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Tolkien was an inventor of languages before he was a writer. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Within a year, Stewart got his first starring role in the 1936 B romantic drama "Speed" as a proficient test driver and inventor. Two early James Stewart films out on DVD 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z The trusty pooch of dithering inventor Wallace projects a vast spectrum of emotions via that small wad of clay that sits above his eyeballs. Don Hertzfeldt: the best animator you've never heard of 2013-05-02T12:28:14Z Carolina’s childhood friend and neighbor, the eccentric inventor Pellegrino Turri, is older by a decade, but the two are bound by their curiosity and quirks. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z “You get to change — foreign student to inventor, businessman!” She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “We’re like inventors of space. We use the term, ‘the physics of culture.’ Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Two Women for the First Time 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The inventor, Jay Harman, an Australian who grew up in an orphanage, works closely with his wife to raise cash for his intriguing ideas for adapting natural forms into technological solutions. Movie Review: ‘Elemental,’ an Environmental Documentary 2013-05-17T00:53:44Z In many ways, the inventor he most admires is the often bewildering Tesla, who cared not a whit for fame and fortune. ‘The Last Days of Night’: The flaws of Thomas Edison, both real and imagined 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z But air conditioning provides a useful way to introduce Johnson's current overarching obsession – the mysterious question of where good ideas come from – because it encapsulates how we generally like to think about inventors and inventions. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z The form was originally thought of as primarily ideal for gaming, but now, like so many digital forms, it is sprouting forth in ways its inventors never intended. Sundance 2015: The perils and pleasures of VR cinema 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z As the inventor of the Earth Harp, which holds the Guinness World Record for being the longest stringed instrument, it’s a task he knows well. The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world's longest stringed instrument 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Another inventor enters the story, the Serbian-born, highly eccentric, often unstable Nikola Tesla. ‘The Last Days of Night’: The flaws of Thomas Edison, both real and imagined 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z These women may not be listed as “inventors.” The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Two members of the London cast have signed on to reprise their roles on Broadway: Roger Bart as the inventor Doc Brown, and Hugh Coles as George McFly, the protagonist’s father. ‘Back to the Future’ Musical to Open on Broadway Next Summer 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Almost exactly a century ago, the French inventor Georges Claude first put the luminous tubes of gas to commercial use. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z "In the novel, the Phantom who was also known as Erik was a great inventor," said the producer. A darker, grittier 'Phantom of the Opera' haunting Pantages 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z By the ’50s he had become a connoisseur of word games and puzzles, and an inventor of elaborate games. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The economy keeps growing yet most economic gains are going to a few — largely financiers and, increasingly, inventors and owners of the digitized devices that are replacing good jobs. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Tesla made countless important contributions to the world, but he was not the sole “inventor” of these technologies. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z This book is a compendium of all the women you might like to see and be, organized into categories: inventors, healers, storytellers, etc. Perspective | Hillary Clinton is the one that got away. But isn’t going away. 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, he could claim to be the inventor of the science of crime scene investigation. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z Similar notes often appear in the prologues of scientific innovation or inventor profiles, interestingly enough. "The Big Bang Theory" of evolution: The show honored smart misfits and let them grow 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Magic Leap inventor Rony Abovitz has previously said his system goes "beyond the current perception of mobile computing, augmented reality, and virtual reality". Brian Cox creates pioneering 3D show 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Just a few years later, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell tested another idea from the roof: the photophone, which used light beams to send sound. Planet Word, a new D.C. museum, explores the landscape of language 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z In many ways, this book is just a collection of thumbnail biographies of assorted inventors and scientists. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Maybe she was a unique thinker who unwisely leaped over the years of failed experimentation inventors pour into every success. Hulu's "The Dropout" brings its A-game with Amanda Seyfried's powerful take on Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The whole point of the Internet — which we could probably confirm with its inventor, — is to check out folks we’re interested in dating. Social Q's: Do Ask Your Date About His Past 2010-07-22T22:16:00Z For that, you need to… During a trip to Paris, Tchaikovsky heard a new instrument that sounded so heavenly its inventor named it the celesta. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z The sequel starring Mark Wahlberg as a human inventor who aids the hulking alien robots rolled over “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and its $95 million opening in April. ‘Transformers’ dominates box office with $100M 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z "Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell," the inventor said. Inventor Bell's voice ID'd on early wax recording 2013-04-24T18:59:11Z They know that he was the third President of the United States, that he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that he was a gifted architect as well as a remarkable inventor. Breaking Ground at Monticello 2012-10-01T15:20:06.137Z Also during the festival, on May 20, Historic Environment Scotland will lead tours around the estate, which includes a cottage once used by James Watt, the inventor and engineer. A Year of Cultural Celebrations in Europe 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Ross grew up in New York City and Southampton, a descendant of the wealthy clan headed by Thomas E. Murray, a prolific inventor who earned his fortune developing power stations in New York. A Palm Beach Power Hostess Prepares for Trump’s Washington 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z My father was a brilliant inventor who turned his mechanical genius onto his own psyche in an effort to overcome decades of unrelenting nightmares, depression and fear. My Holocaust survivor parents never talked about it — and their silence didn't protect me 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z By the 1980s, the hottest hair style among young African Americans was the Jheri curl, named for its popularizer if not its inventor. Willie Lee Morrow, Barber Who Popularized the Afro Pick, Dies at 82 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Asked to picture an electric guitar, most people will immediately bring to mind inventor Leo Fender’s most famous creation. Review | A look at the two men who turned up the volume on rock music 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z They are the “few and special,” the artists, inventors, scientists, athletes and explorers who help a society to flourish. Nevermoor writer has knack for creating whimsical worlds 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The new design, which reportedly dampens the sounds of the vacuum-assisted toilets by up to 16 decibels, would be only about half as loud as standard airline toilets, according to its inventors. Researchers claim to have designed quieter airplane toilet, claim 'kids won't think they're going to get sucked out' 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The number is impressive and also excessive, which is one way of describing Davis, the jolly inventor of a modern bulletproof vest and a born salesman. ‘2nd Chance’ Review: Just Shoot Me 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s the sixth grader Silas Wade’s turn to teach his classmates about a famous inventor. Pride at the Plate for a Little League All-Star 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But there are always new means of assembly, especially for a scientifically minded creative inventor like Coltrane. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play. The saxophone is so closely associated with jazz and big bands that we tend to forget that its inventor, Adolphe Sax, envisioned it as an orchestral instrument. Debussy/ d'Indy/ Schmitt/ Tomasi/ Maurice: Works for saxophone and orchestra |CD review 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z The final narrative ends with the legendary inventor of Chinese characters reflecting on his impoverished mother, whose figure — no longer begging for food — is forever preserved in his logograms. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z He was also the inventor of the earliest pacemakers. Alexa Monroy, Alexander Fankuchen 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The Serbian-American engineer and inventor was hired by one of Edison's companies on June 8, 1884, and, unlike his boss, Tesla saw the potential in AC. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z This should lead viewers to go beyond thinking, “‘Oh, I can be an inventor when I grow up,’ which is what the original show would do,” she added. Take a Look: ‘Reading Rainbow’ Goes Live, With New Friends to Know 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The process of turning a successful London playwright into an icon of Englishness, then a universal writer and the very “inventor of the human,” to paraphrase Harold Bloom, took centuries. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But you'd need to be something of a social historian to know that "Warren was a manufacturer of boot-blacking and the inventor of that system of advertising which consists of defacing other people's walls." Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z The quintessential TV pitchman and inventor known to generations of viewers for hawking products including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone and the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Stuffed full of the correspondence and work of those who preceded him as Astronomer Royal, it also contains letters and papers of artisans, inventors, expeditionary astronomers and maritime explorers. Navigating 18th-century science: Board of Longitude archive digitised 2013-07-18T06:47:24Z These whimsical moments of speculation and anachronism remind us that “Tesla,” which chronicles a crucial period in the inventor’s life, is anything but a conventional biopic. ‘Tesla’ Review: Lightning Strikes, but Quietly 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Epic is one of the nation’s top console developers, as is Bungie, the inventor of Halo. Video Game Review: Gears of War 3 - Review 2011-09-19T17:12:57Z As several note, he didn’t merely invent things, he invented the profession of inventor. ‘American Experience’ Explores the Mastery of Thomas Edison 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The concert was a tribute to Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor with whom Mr. Beck forged a long friendship. Music Review: Beck?s Back, With Roots Rock the Les Paul Way 2011-03-29T21:58:33Z Rather than the inventor of the crimes, he seemed their invention: a convenience created to fill the gaping holes in logic. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z Bate’s documentary draws parallels to current online trends and the man at the heart of it has been described in many ways, from “the original selfie guy” to the inventor of the self-confessional video. Meet Sam Klemke, the original selfie king, and his time machine 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z In dreaming up attractions like the Sky Flinger — spheres with riders that are sent sailing through the air — June, the film’s young lead, displayed the outsize creativity of the best inventors. That Time I Built My Own ‘Wonder Park’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Rivalries between such inventors as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are dramatized in the new series “American Genius.” TV This Week, May 31-June 6: 'Pretty Little Liars' and more 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The inventor of the remote control would have sent in the patent months earlier, but it suddenly went missing; eventually it was found in his refrigerator. Style Invitational: Punku — 5-7-5-pun 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Its primary interest isn’t in her acting, though; it focuses on Lamarr’s work as an inventor, which helped shape modern communication. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Sidewalk Stories’ and ‘Space Force’ 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Thomas Edison is remembered as America’s greatest inventor, and with good reason. Excerpt: Up-All-Night Success Stories from The 24-Hour Genius 2013-06-19T14:56:02Z Lahout’s also forged partnerships with two young inventors who had created prototype equipment that allowed riders to “surf” on snow. ‘America’s oldest ski shop’ is a New Hampshire landmark 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z "As a budding schoolboy scientist and inventor myself, I loved the Professor Branestawm books," Hill said. Harry Hill to play Prof Branestawm 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Add to that: A millionaire, inventor of Miracle Mop and a recreational rifle-user. Get your first look at David O Russell’s latest J-Law Oscar-bait 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Although Carver was an inventor many times over, he added, “He didn’t hardly patent anything.” James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z In this meticulously researched work, Rhodes brings his fascination with engineers, scientists and inventors along as he presents an often underappreciated history: four centuries through the evolution of energy and how we use it. A History of the Energy We Have Consumed 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Historians and scientists might be happier with the statement that she was one of the inventors of frequency hopping, which was subsequently used in military and civilian communications technology. Samson and Delilah: a good effort at biblical sex and violence 2013-06-20T09:00:02Z Given, though, that each inventor was unaware of the other's progress, it does prompt the question: is there a kind of literary photoshopping going on here? Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport – review 2013-04-21T11:00:02Z His friend, the Oxford scientist and inventor Prof Teddy Hall, built a wheelchair with a battery-operated respirator, which meant he and Diana could resume, to some extent, their adventurous lives. Andy Serkis: ‘King Kong was the epiphany. It was like: you can now do anything’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The collection also includes that early helicopter, the brainchild of German-born Washingtonian Emile Berliner, better known as the inventor of the gramophone. Perspective | College Park is up in the air 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z His text explores the evolution of the technology; inventors and corporations have been vying to improve the equipment’s wind speed since the 1920s. 4 Books to Inspire Your Inner Designer 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z I’d met the members of Tesla — named for the inventor, before the electric car became a well-known brand — in 2017 at a chamber music program at Stanford, where Tesla won the top prize. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z By the way, I’m referring to the soda’s inventor and namesake. Guaran? Jesus: Crisp, with a Slightly Tart Aftertaste 2010-06-11T16:00:00Z Turns out the inventor slipped frequently into and out of the grid for some time before his "program" self, Clu, outstripped his creator and gained the upper hand. 'Tron: Legacy' looks sharp in 3D, short on story 2010-12-04T00:13:00Z Alex Shulgin, inventor of Ecstasy, Has moved from this life to the next to see If euphoria there Can begin to compare: Is it better than drugs, rock and sex to see? Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The composer was exploring orchestral colors with new instruments by the musician and inventor Adolphe Sax at the same time as the composer Hector Berlioz, who held Thomas in great esteem. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z As a filmmaker, she made the wise choice to feature bright-eyed inventors who are able to make technical innovation sound approachable in talking head interviews. ‘More Than Robots’ Review: An International Battle 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “In his writings, Borges often referred to Solar as an inventor of languages and religions” and “evoked Solar’s linguistic creativity,” another wall label notes. ‘Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges’ at Americas Society 2013-04-18T21:09:09Z He wrote his new album “Gadzooks Vol. 1,” for instance, while in Albuquerque shooting “Finch,” the upcoming post-apocalyptic drama in which he stars alongside Tom Hanks as the android creation of Hanks’s inventor character. Caleb Landry Jones is known for playing weird, kind of creepy characters. His new album is also weird and kind of creepy. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the National Museum of American History will open an entire wing devoted to inventors and their creations. Smithsonian celebrates invention in American history museum’s new wing 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The inventors of America’s liberties, their sensibilities born of the Enlightenment, understood the new world in America as an experiment with the volatile substance of freedom. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z And the inventor and the witch might well be sisters. Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s like building a little village that’s home to thinkers, designers, inventors, and tradespeople. Ole Sondresen on his Manufacturing Innovation Hub for Apparel, Textiles & Wearable Tech 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z But that paper-bag-making machine is also on display, partly to demonstrate that female inventors were at work, though we don’t learn anything about its creator, Margaret E. Knight, or about the machine. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z In his will, dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel instructed the academy to pick “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Looking for moral guidance from the extraordinary thinker or creator or inventor is like going to Casablanca for the waters. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z This McLuhanesque bent eventually led him to bring out entire books about R. Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of geodesic domes, and cartoon legend Chuck Jones, the genius behind Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote. Review | The most intellectually exhilarating work of the year 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z In the mid-19th century, Lovelace embarked on a study of mathematics to discipline her artist’s mind and attached herself to Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first computer. Book Review: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z He said the museum's spherical theater, the centerpiece of the design, was in part inspired by the geodesic domes of the inventor and polymath Buckminster Fuller. Renzo Piano defends academy museum plans 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Designed by Swedish inventor John Ericsson, the Monitor was an ironclad vessel, or one that had iron plating. 11 historically significant toilets 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z But Rick, the inventor of a gun that opens inter-dimensional portals at the pull of a trigger, believes he’s mastered navigating that chaos and almost always proves that he’s right. A "Rick and Morty" guide to 9 essential episodes to get schwifty for Season 4 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z An inventor and master of Minimalism, Steve Reich turned 80 on Oct. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Highlighting the inventor and feminist Lizzie Magie, a community of Quakers and an unemployed Depression-era engineer, viewers will learn about the true creator of Monopoly and how it became a board game staple. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowfall’ and the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z As the inventor of the computer, would Alan Turing be delighted we've all got them in our pockets now with cellphones, or would he be dismayed we're using them for "Angry Birds" and "Candy Crush"? 'Imitation Game' director Morten Tyldum on doing justice to Alan Turing 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Down in the bottom right corner of the altarpiece, in a flash of gold against the darkness, is a notable signature: “Villalpando inventor.” From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z EAT: The Story of Food The debut installment of this documentary series profiles TV chef Julia Child, explorer Christopher Columbus, inventor Clarence Birdseye and other influential figures in the history of food. Friday's TV Highlights: 'Great Performances' on PBS 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Isaacson’s acclaimed biography of the artist and inventor is narrated by actor Molina, whom you might recognize from “Boogie Nights” or — wait, is this some kind of conspiracy? Hear Hear! Audiobooks that are not to be missed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z No one knows what exactly prompted Joshua Pusey, a lawyer and the inventor of the modern toboggan, to patent a folded piece of cardboard carrying matches and a striker in 1892. Who Made That?: Striking on the Modern Matchbook 2012-01-06T10:00:00Z Ms. Atwood, who lives in Toronto with her husband, the novelist Graeme Gibson, comes from a family of scientists and inventors. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The inventors of the Instant Pot are geniuses. What were we thinking? The worst trends of the decade – ranked! 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Any power struggles between Quirky and its inventors are mild, though. Television Review: ?Quirky? on the Sundance Channel - Review 2011-08-29T22:46:13Z He was so eloquent and engaging about the personalities of the inventors as well as the technical accomplishment of both devices and he had enormous passion for their regional connection. What's in store: how First Time Out opened our eyes to new possibilities 2013-06-07T10:55:00Z “The Guilt Trip”: Seth Rogen plays a would-be inventor and Barbra Streisand plays his mother in this road trip/comedy. Poinsettias, trains and gift ideas | Weekend Preview 2012-12-19T21:39:34Z For every Joan of Arc, there’s a Mongolian wrestler princess; for every Mata Hari, there’s a Colombian revolutionary spy; for every Ada Lovelace, there’s a pin-up Austrian telecoms inventor. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z They include a single page signed by the Tabriz calligrapher Mir Ali, credited with being one of four inventors of the style; other examples document its spread to India, Iraq and Turkey. Calligraphy as Visual Poetry 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z He met Mr. Land in 1948 and was so taken with him that he became a friend of the brilliant inventor and served as a consultant to the Polaroid Corporation. 2010-02-11T08:21:00Z He was best known in the music community as an inventor of guitars and a pioneer of recording techniques. Les Paul guitars, items fetch $5 million at auction 2012-06-10T22:04:00Z He wasn’t an inventor or creator of new forms; rather, he infused existing subject matter with a peculiar, highly personal intensity. Review | Five art exhibitions you really didn’t want to miss in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Instead, he’s pigeonholed as the inventor of soul, as if inventing soul somehow means he can’t have invented rock as well. 19 songs that prove how much pop music owes to black rock 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Sketches by the Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci served as a foundation for his design. The Inspirations Behind ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z This survey reveals there was more to Muybridge than motion, including his landscape photography and output as a documentarist, war correspondent and inventor. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z As for Tina’s God, now she worships Willis Carrier, an inventor of air conditioning. Review: ‘Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,’ a Musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Browne was a medical man, but he was also, in an age before specialisms, a naturalist, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a linguist and an inventor of words—“medical” itself being among the 784 he coined. Weird science 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “Living in the machine age, we are, in effect, living in a drone,” said Phil Kline, a composer who is using drones in an opera he is writing about the inventor Nikola Tesla. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The main character, Allie Fox, is still an underemployed genius and a crackpot inventor, who on the spur of the moment transports his family to Latin America. Review: A New ‘Mosquito Coast,’ This Time With Narcos 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Pearl reveals that the invention could be more rightly attributed to Lewis Howard Latimer, the Black inventor responsible for creating the filament inside the bulb. In viral anti-racism PSA, "Steven Universe" character Pearl challenges our whitewashed history 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z “I am speaking, of course, of Tom Swift,” the young inventor in the series of books for boys. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Lokteff reminds her viewers that straight white men are the world’s great inventors and creators and, moreover, that these tolerant and kind souls always are the ones to come to rescue the less fortunate. Alt-right women and the "white baby challenge" 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z For me, the biggest revelation of the book is that you say that you are the inventor of leggings. Drama and imagination: The iconic stylist behind “Sex and the City” on what fashion should be 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z He would be the inventor, but we would be the end users, and we would make the thing ours. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The images were taken by Bob Beck, an award-winning research physicist and inventor who died in 2002 and left a huge archive of photographs and slides in his Hollywood home. Beatles colour photos from 1964 up for auction 2013-01-06T17:43:30Z Edison is the inventor of the phonograph, the kinetoscope and the first practical incandescent light bulb. Artists compete to design Ohio’s US Capitol statue 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z We like to imagine that an inventor exists outside of the cultural and institutional forces that facilitate innovation. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z Then there were the ear trumpets he used, hornlike metal devices that were created for him to stick in his ears by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, an inventor who also made his metronomes. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Painter, engraver, sculptor, photographer, fabric-maker, fashion and theater designer, inventor of a theatrical lighting system and stylish domestic lamps, he gradually took over the rest of the palazzo, floor by floor, to accommodate his pursuits. Scene/Seen: In Arts Capital, Galleries Fill a Void 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z An inventor demonstrates his answer to a sedentary work force: a machine that allows an employee to work at a computer terminal while walking on a slow-moving treadmill. The TV Watch: CNBC Explores a Big Nation of Big People 2010-05-17T22:13:00Z Zapping, to the tune of 4.5 million volts, from a Tesla coil, an electrical transformer named for Nikola Tesla, the mad-scientist inventor of the late 19th century. Worth the trip: a pilgrimage to experience Bellingham’s MegaZapper 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z "Birdseye" is a look at the life of inventor Clarence Birdseye, who died with more than 200 patents in his name. Review: In praise of Clarence Birdseye's curiosity 2012-05-07T13:51:10Z Louis Wain, cat painter, illustrator, amateur inventor, hobbyist, and would-be musician, was an unusual man. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z An interactive hologram exhibition, for example, lets visitors converse with Israeli innovators, such as the USB flash drive inventor, Dov Moran, while another exhibition showcases Israeli products ranging from autonomous vehicles to a space telescope. In the Heart of Israel’s ‘Start-up Nation,’ an Exclusive Scene Opens Up 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Gilliam, like Cervantes, is a wily inventor who also serves as an analyst and evangelist of the imagination. Review: ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Brings Him Back to Life 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z What “The Inventor” shows is how susceptible society is to grifts particularly in the realm of technology, a factor that extends back to through the ages to famed inventor Thomas Edison. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Clive Price wrote: "As a toy inventor with no children of my own, I hope toys which I have created will reach many children and evoke joyful memories of childhood for future generations." Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit 2013-01-21T13:45:17Z Inspired by Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla, he plans to research artificial organs and ultimately develop an entire artificial body in his own laboratory. 9-year-old finishes college in just nine months 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Between 20 and 30 fellows are tapped each year, a diverse assortment of writers, artists, teachers, entrepreneurs, civic activists, inventors — all of whom the foundation sees as having demonstrated “exceptional creativity” in their fields. ‘Now my life will change’: Meet the 2016 MacArthur ‘geniuses’ 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The home of the real Earls of Carnarvon has hosted many parties through the ages, with guests including politicians, inventors and Egyptologists. Historic Britain: days out and short breaks 2012-08-17T21:45:06Z In 1910, when another inventor, Lee de Forest, broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at listening centers to put on earphones and hear the crackling, distorted voice of Enrico Caruso. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The inventor called it celesta because “celestial” — heaven. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The tattooed and drug-addicted townie has more than his share of personal demons, but can he straighten up long enough to lead a renegade safety-needle inventor to victory against a monopolizing medical supply corporation? ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z With his bushy beard and haze of long, dark hair standing on end, Galasso, 32, looks every bit the inventor. Argentine luthier turns beat-up skateboards into electric guitars 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Over the years, inventors have developed an evolving assembly of tools and instruments aimed at figuring out whether someone is telling a lie. Are polygraph tests reliable? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z “As single-mom female inventor, there was no path for that, so really I don’t think people took me seriously for a really long time,” the Huggable Hangers creator told PEOPLE. Joy Mangano on Hitting Rock Bottom Before Inventing Miracle Mop 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z This means scenes of industrious young people in semi-fashionable clothing taking to sketchpads, which are less exciting than the scenes in which an inventor tells those same people that their sketches aren’t good enough. Television Review: ?Quirky? on the Sundance Channel - Review 2011-08-29T22:46:13Z But it's still his picture in the dictionary next to "inventor." TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z For the New York mechanic was by no means the inventor of the basic principle of the hoisting apparatus. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z The objects in this presentation highlight da Vinci’s ingenuity not only as a painter and sculptor but also as an engineer, musician, inventor, and anatomist. Be Sure to Catch Italy’s Largest Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Which would be a taste that one half of the corn butter-spreading inventor duo does not share. Corn on the cob is simple food. Why are there so many gadgets to help us eat it? 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The case was unique because an inventor named Stephen Thaler listed his computer system as the artwork’s creator, arguing that a copyright should be issued and transferred to him as the machine’s owner. As Fight Over A.I. Artwork Unfolds, Judge Rejects Copyright Claim 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z For Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the aeroplane, it took just 12 seconds. Heavens above 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z He says it was born out of his regret at never having captured on film his grandfather, the inventor and musical pioneer Constant Martin. How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z Résumé virtues, like being the inventor of Velcro, still matter most, but eulogy virtues, like being able to mimic an old school bus starting up, are increasingly sneaking in as well. A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z That, more or less, is what happens on “The Toy Box,” a competition series for toy inventors that begins Friday, April 7, on ABC. ABC’s ‘The Toy Box’ Lets Kids Run the Shark Tank 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Dave TV ... inventor of the funniest joke of the fringe award There's a new gong in town. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the Dave prize for the fringe's funniest joke 2010-08-23T12:46:00Z The son of an inventor, Cage seems to have been born with a radically open and questioning mind. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z Barnum and Thomas Edison — an inventor and innovator, yes, but a popularizer as well, a man who saw consumers’ needs and then found accessible ways to entice them into making purchases. Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z A composer and inventor, Machover is currently writing a symphony about the city of Toronto in collaboration with not just the city's orchestra, but also its 2.6 million residents. The orchestra as mass collaboration 2012-11-12T17:45:01Z Warren De La Rue, a British inventor, created one of the earliest light bulbs in 1840. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Woodrow Wilson was there, along with future president Franklin Roosevelt and inventor Alexander Graham Bell. A century ago, mail delivery took to the skies 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He described Scott as postmodern, and even put up an argument for his being an inventor of "cyber-literature". Scotland's image-maker Sir Walter Scott 'invented English legends' 2010-08-16T16:21:00Z Best line: “Little Thomas Alva Edison said I’ll grow up to be/A great inventor and I’ll make a lamp to help my mommy see/Wowee! What an excellent application of electricity!” 5 ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Songs From Bob Dorough We’ll Never Forget 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The show is a dark, worthy companion piece to ABC's relentlessly sunny Shark Tank, on which inventors smile their way through interrogation before being tossed a small slice of capital. Nathan For You’s Oddball Humor Hides a Serious Message 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z American inventors in the 19th century shipped operable miniatures by the hundreds of thousands to the federal government, as models for potential patent approval. Antiques: Patent Models, Roger Broders Posters, Meissen Porcelain 2011-12-08T22:10:53Z Early in this documentary, Mr. DeJoria is shown on “Shark Tank,” partnering with an inventor who refused to raise the price of a product he sold to farmers. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘What Would Diplo Do?’ and ‘The Guest Book’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Roderick tells her to "study the parts, study the can, figure out what the can opener inventor was thinking when they tried to solve this problem." "Jeopardy!" champ Ken Jennings stumbles into more controversy after defending "Bean Dad" on Twitter 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Tesla's association with Westinghouse—and the eventual dominance of AC power — caused a rift between the two inventors, but historians say they weren't the bitter rivals pop culture makes them out to be. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z This might surprise its modern inventors, who saw it as ideal, universal and equalizing. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Why would anyone expect extraordinary creators, inventors, or visionaries to live by ordinary ethics? Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z A pathologist who lost his medical license in 1991, he is also an inventor who created what he called the “Mercitron,” a euthanasia device that used a gas mask and carbon dioxide. Al Pacino in ?You Don?t Know Jack,? About Kevorkian 2010-04-20T23:03:00Z He wanted to be a musician, and thinks of himself as an inventor, and tries to be a good father; yet he comes up short on all counts. Brad Pitt on the Mystery of Terry Malick 2011-05-26T19:50:00Z Ms. Weisz’s father, an engineer and inventor, came from a Jewish Orthodox family in Budapest, and he also fled the Nazis, moving with his parents to London as a child. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1965, the inventors of pickleball played with what they had – a repurposed badminton setup, ping-pong paddles and a perforated plastic ball. Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z As well as sharing some of the same artists and oddball inventors and obsessives, both exhibitions focus on personal cosmologies, and the extreme strategies people undertake to hold themselves together. Far-out show celebrates world of outsiders 2013-06-10T17:26:04Z When the young Leonardo painted this, he could see a picture of a flying man in Florence – a medieval carving of the legendary inventor Daedalus wearing wings on the city's bell tower. How Leonardo da Vinci's angels pointed the way to the future 2012-12-25T01:00:00Z A jewel of the collection is what the Met says is the oldest existing piano in the world, an instrument built by the piano’s inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori of Florence, in 1720. Metropolitan Museum?s Western Instruments, in a Shinier Home 2010-03-11T23:20:00Z After studying science he became a "manufacturing chemist" and would-be inventor. Double Agent Snow by James Hayward – review 2013-01-04T22:55:13Z They are interested in that time period because a billionaire inventor, James Halliday, died and left behind a mischievous legacy. Books of The Times: A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture 2011-08-14T23:02:57Z He was an inventor of his own, and his gaze extended as far as paradise. From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “Maybe an athlete, or an inventor,” he said. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In his headline-based work Warhol didn’t become a mere transcriber: he became an editor, rewriter and inventor, roles we see him assuming throughout the show. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z Why are some inventors famous while others languish in permanent obscurity? Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z But the fine distinctions between the contribution each made escaped BBC News, which treated them all as inventors of the . Facebook and Google spread 'their' net across the mobile world 2013-03-24T00:05:39Z After careful preparations, aviation buff and inventor Franky Zapata took off Thursday from the French coastal town of Sangatte fastened to the small flying platform he designed. Skateboarding on the sky: Man tries unusual Channel crossing 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Her third husband, Martin Scheiner, an inventor of cardiac monitors and other medical equipment, died in 1992 after 21 years of marriage. Ann McGovern, author of ‘Stone Soup’ and other children’s books, dies at 85 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The real inventor of Monopoly was, in fact, a woman. It's game time for the history of Monopoly 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Bell, better known as the inventor of the telephone, also worked as an educator of the deaf; he lived in Washington for part of his life. ‘Visible Language’ captures the historic dispute in D.C. over how to teach the deaf That may seem odd; but Paul was, in effect, the inventor of Christianity, the founding theorist of the new religion. Rethinking Easter through Paul the Apostle: Why evangelicals get it wrong 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z No peace chairman has been demoted to a mere member since the first awards were made in 1901 under the will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Change looms for Nobel Peace Prize as chairman risks coup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Source: Cambridge University Library Key Stage 2 pupils will, we hope, learn about Captain Cook's voyages and Key Stage 3 will be able to think about inventors and enterprise. Navigating 18th-century science: Board of Longitude archive digitised 2013-07-18T06:47:24Z “A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.” “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z But Newman is also one of the great satirical lyricists of the age — as well as an ingenious inventor of pop tunes. What our writers love this week 2011-04-13T23:38:04Z But, equally, he was a great inventor of things – he was always making things happen. Our dad, Joe Strummer, remembered 2012-07-27T23:05:09Z “Fiendish Schemes” continues the story of George Dower, son of a deceased mad inventor. ‘Fiendish Schemes’: a wild and whimsical steampunk sequel 2013-12-11T18:47:31Z Yet he felt that his hearing problems gave him a career advantage: They made it easier for the inventor to concentrate on his work without aural distractions. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z SAT Test drive new technology including inventor kits, 3-D printing, robots, with showcase of old technology including typewriter and gramophone, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “Theirs was a battle of intellect, a race of creativity and technological innovation that we see echoed in the self-made inventors dominating spaces like Silicon Valley.” Thomas Edison to Tonya Harding: Oscar hopes pinned on biopics at the Toronto film festival 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z "In this time where people are sort of wondering about what we are, we're still inventors, but we need to frame our own perceptions in that way." Patent models join art in new Smithsonian exhibit 2011-07-16T18:46:04Z Perhaps most famous as an artist, Leonardo also excelled as an inventor, anatomist, engineer and architect. MOHAI exhibit lets you test some of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z It included a shot of the inventor’s girlfriend running up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Invention That Shot Rocky Up Those Steps 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Naturally, it excels at expressing concepts particular to its inventor’s domestic existence. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Other interesting jobs included inventor, video game designer, marine biologist and candy shop owner. December’s class: Fifth-graders at Woodlin Elementary in Silver Spring 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The inventors of the instruments, in most cases, did not meet the performers who would use them. ?The Music Box? in New Orleans is a Sonic Shantytown 2011-11-21T22:54:24Z Last year’s prize was shared by Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, the inventors of new auction formats which have been used by governments to allocate scarce resources. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Then again, maybe this isn't supposed to be Mark Zuckerberg, but some imaginary poking inventor who happens to look a lot like the Harvard drop-out. Mark Zuckerberg action figure complete with freckles, Adidas 2011-03-09T21:10:00Z Neapolitan pizza as we know it did not have an inventor, per se. Italians avoided pizza for centuries — tourism changed everything 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z In 1925, Harry created another sensation when he got the inventor of an early version of television, a moving silhouette, to bring it in. Another London must-see: Selfridges, the iconic luxury department store 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z There are a lot of other innovators, inventors, exploiters, proselytizers and even Pentagon personnel who wonder the same thing, and often with a similar sense of enchantment or incredulity. 'Carbon Nation': Dealing with climate change in a lively and fun way 2011-03-03T21:02:05Z Would it never have occurred to its inventor, before Nora found him on the other side, to build a machine for the return? Review: In Its Finale, ‘The Leftovers’ Crosses Beautifully to the Other Side of Grief 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z But everyone now agrees it was a hoax, and that the real inventor was a German guy in the 1800s. Leonardo’s spirit lives on in his hometown of Vinci, Italy 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z American Experience Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the light bulb, is profiled in this new installment. Felicia Day guest stars on a new 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z By presenting this goal, Uber hopes to motivate inventors to, well, invent them. Are flying cars for real? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z After Robertson's first round of comments came to light, A&E decided to suspend the duck-call inventor from the series temporarily, even though production on the season was almost complete. 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson defends comments on gays in sermon 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z We were at a crossroads again in 1913, when the American inventor Frank Shuman built a solar array to power steam engines in Egypt, with an eye toward using it to irrigate the desert. 'Cosmos' recap: Climate change is explained in 'The World Set Free' 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z All three fit with ease into McAnuff's staging, which is well thought-out in its details, even if the notion of Faust as inventor of the atom bomb seems as contrived as ever. Review: Alagna as a cartwheeling `Faust' at Met 2011-12-24T21:31:04Z The prize was introduced in 1901 according to the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and industrialist, five years after his death in 1896. From afar, Dylan muses on honor and surprise of Nobel prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z With Tom you are taking on the inventor and not one idea. The Apprentice: Tom takes his seat at the top table 2011-07-18T10:09:51Z According to legend, when Edison died, one of his sons trapped the inventor's terminal breath in a test tube, sealed it, and sent the macabre memento to Ford. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Maybe Warhol had photography inventor William Henry Fox Talbot in mind when he chose shadows for an environmental painting. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Courrèges was the inventor of the miniskirt: at least in his eyes and those of the French fashion fraternity. Andre Courreges, 92, French fashion designer known for miniskirt, dies 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The flexible — or “bendy” — straw was invented by a doting father and inventor, whose daughter was struggling to slurp a milkshake through a straight straw. The last straw: Moving past disposable plastic spurs companies to innovate 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Eric Stonestreet hosts a new competition series in which inventors present ideas for new toys to a panel of kids for their approval. ‘Toy Box,’ ‘First Dates’ among TV picks for April 7 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Fortunately, this social media inventor has taken time out from his spluttering, smoke-filled social media laboratory to share an elevator with our heroine. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z Another minor contraption is represented in the drawing of an 1849 device used for “Buoying Vessels Over Shoals,” making up in provenance what it lacks in importance; its inventor was Abraham Lincoln. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z He'd take inventors' money, but there wasn't a ton he would do. Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They are truly generative, an apt term for a novel that queries a selfish inventor, his damaged creature and science’s threat to arrogate creation to itself. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Scott Siepker on YouTube The inventor of viral sensation Iowa Nice Guy turns a comic eye on life in his home state. The best towns and small cities in the US: Des Moines, Iowa 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z For the thirsty, drinks will be made on a “bike blender,” a device created by the “musicians, artists, activists, inventors, circus performers and bicycle enthusiasts” of the collective Band of Bicycles. Weekend Miser: Family Swimming and Live Music 2010-08-26T21:30:00Z No inventor did more to nudge the world toward modernity, and few had a better feel for what the next generation of inventors might pursue. An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z This year all of Italy — but particularly Florence, where the great artist and inventor lived — is celebrating the achievements of Leonardo da Vinci, who passed away 500 years ago. In Florence, Italy, da Vinci’s inventions are there for the touching 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z I remember him pretending to be the inventor of Jack Daniels: “I’ve discovered a formula to make the world stupid.” Robin Williams burning brightly: There was just one human being who could do this thing 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “The Inventor,” HBO’s Theranos documentary, draws comparisons between Holmes and one of her idols, Thomas Edison, who may have been better at cultivating his public image as an inventor than he was at actually inventing. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z And few people know that the inventor of the screening mechanism is visiting Dr. DePaul this very week. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Doing Your Own Dirty Work 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prizes were established after the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other explosives, in 1896. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Their take on historical biopics is no less irreverent, dramatizing the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla with winking self-awareness, anachronistic flourishes and even a surprise musical interlude. ‘Charm City Kings,’ ‘Babyteeth’ and Other Hidden Streaming Gems 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z A lesser-known story concerning Daedalus, the mechanical engineer and inventor who created the wings for his overambitious son, Icarus, is instructive. Leave Stephen King alone: “Misery,” income inequality and the connection between jealousy and creativity 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z In a much-cited speech in 1959, Land was dismissive of this view, insisting that the individual inventor still mattered and needed the incentive that a prospective patent provided. Land of hope and glory 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z There is no one specific recorded inventor or restaurant or origin. What exactly is duck sauce? The sticky history of the Chinese-American takeout staple 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Rejected passages describe a marketer who champions slogans, hosts who are not hospitable, an inventor of push-buttons that satisfy human desires. Exhibition Review: The Morgan Explores the Origins of ‘The Little Prince’ 2014-01-24T00:34:37Z Politicians, crackpot inventors, conspiracy theorists and spiritual mediums loved his show, which let them reach huge audiences without facing challenging questions. Larry King, Breezy Interviewer of the Famous and Infamous, Dies at 87 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Or at least she will be once she's been convinced that "social media inventor" is an actual thing. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z The German inventors and Mr. Glover operate as if they unwittingly have voodoo dolls of this man. Review: In ‘How Music Got Free,’ Stephen Witt Details an Industry Sea Change 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z One other production method, often called Charmat after its inventor, Eugéne Charmat, involves the bulk production of sparkling wine in tanks. 12 Summer Sparkling Wines, Because Who Needs a Reason 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z In the 1998 episode “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace,” Homer decides to become an inventor and is pictured in front of a blackboard with a complex equation in one scene. Apparently 'The Simpsons' Discovered the Higgs Boson Particle Before Everyone Else 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Notable among them was the late George Daniels, the inventor of the coaxial escapement in the 1970s, a mechanism that improved the performance of mechanical watches by virtually eliminating the need for lubrication. Today's Challenge: Improving the Escapement 2012-11-23T13:35:50Z The French director was a master of illusion: he segued from stage conjuror to fantasy film-maker when, in 1896, he began to experiment with a movie camera designed by English inventor RW Paul. Dead famous: the Kickstarter campaign to restore Méliès's grave 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Alex is an inventor and entrepreneur, but there’s no reason to buy what he or the show is selling. Review: CBS’s ‘Me, Myself & I’ Doesn’t Know Itself Yet 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z As a composer, beyond his works for piano, Liszt was the inventor of the orchestral tone poem and an inspired songwriter, and he produced a body of sublime sacred choral works. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z He was, after all, a musician at heart, not an inventor. Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z He has been a patent agent and an inventor, and eventually his work with electrical and digital systems led him to notice something his church hadn’t taught him about: the power of natural selection. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z He contrasts Britain with the Netherlands, France and China, and asks why none of those countries — all of which had plenty of scientists and inventors — developed a practical steam engine. 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World': the invention and ascension of steam power 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z Robert Adler, the inventor of the Lazy Bones, carried remote technology forward with an ultrasound device called the Space Command. Design Notebook: Frustrating as They Are, We Still Can’t Live Without TV Remotes 2012-05-30T22:55:39Z He is a retired patent lawyer and inventor living in Bend, Oregon. We made a sport 2012-08-19T13:00:00Z Earlier this year, however AD Harvey was exposed by the Times Literary Supplement as the inventor of the encounter. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z “It’s challenging, being an inventor,” she told the Guardian during a coffeeshop interview near her home in Winter Park, a historic suburban city just east of Orlando. Fidget spinner inventor hasn't cashed in on craze, but she's 'pleased' nonetheless 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z "What you realize is that it's literally hundreds and hundreds of people who've worked with us as sound engineers or road crew, technicians, inventors or graphics or whatever," Mason said. Pink Floyd's Waters, Mason hope to delight fans, honor crews in new exhibit 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z We have pretty good intel on the dad, who was an inventor – and as for the Beast himself, it is a full-time job being so ugly. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Another section houses several saxophones by inventor Adolphe Sax. Silenced musical treasures languish in Mich. vault 2012-01-15T20:18:09Z But when David O. Russell told inventor and entrepreneur Joy Mangano that he wanted to direct a movie based on her life, it didn’t faze her in the least. The True Story Behind the Movie 'Joy' 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Fox also ponders the case of George Elkington, the Victorian inventor who developed electroplating – the closest anyone has yet come to alchemy. TV highlights 25/07/2012 2012-07-24T19:30:01Z Had it not been for What’s Love Got To Do With It, Ike Turner might have been best known as the inventor of rock’n’roll. 'It made my children cry': when real-life figures hate their biopics 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Teacher Owen Gray was implanted as a teenager by his father, the inventor of the original brain-chip. Science fiction roundup - reviews 2012-08-03T21:55:04Z The purist might ask why the laundry was Belle’s job in the first place, and realistically, if she were an inventor, why she couldn’t escape through ingenuity rather than waiting to fall in love. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Upon first glance, Lowe appears to be protecting the much-coveted chronometer and its inventor from the cutthroat gang boarding their ship. In 'Crossbones,' John Malkovich as Blackbeard is the lure 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “Death and the Powers” is the latest opera by the American composer and inventor Tod Machover. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z The speech he delivered about the legislation, which changed the technical requirements for filing a patent, highlighted this diversity by emphasizing that today anyone can become an inventor in the United States. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z We also ask Scott Turow, inventor of the legal thriller, why it took him 23 years to write the sequel to Presumed Innocent. Summer reads, Scott Turow, Tim Parks 2010-07-16T15:30:00Z This is Zebra’s quest: “I, a modern literary inventor, was going to walk the void of my multiple exiles causing trouble, discombobulating the world.” Brainy and Benighted, Lost in the Books of Bolaño and Borges 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Her father was an inventor, a major influence on her work, with its many contraptions and D.I.Y. inventiveness. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The breakthrough offered a glimpse at the experiments with sound and recording at the dawn of the information age when inventors were scrambling to secure patents for the first telephones and phonographs. Inventor Bell's voice ID'd on early wax recording 2013-04-24T18:59:11Z Many people, said the web's inventor, no longer make a distinction between Facebook and the web. Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Yes, Leonardo da Vinci was both artist and inventor. When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z The show is about his grandfather, a hairdresser and the inventor of the permanent wave machine. What to see at the new Institute of Contemporary Art in DTLA 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z At various times, he also worked as a bank clerk, an inventor’s assistant, and in a factory. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z You may think that arguing over how much credit a 19th-century inventor deserves for his work is esoteric and of no relevance to the modern world. There are no lone inventors 2013-04-03T18:56:00Z Mrs. Coulter is a powerful female figure in a male world, Wilson noted, adding that she modeled the character’s image on the 1930s and 1940s actress Hedy Lamarr, who was also a gifted inventor. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The title figure — well, one, anyway — is Tim Jenison, a scientist, inventor and restless hobbyist with deep pockets and famous friends, including Penn Jillette, who produced the movie, and Teller, who directed. Movie Review: ‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Chronicles an Attempt to Make One 2014-01-30T23:17:13Z Joy, in which Lawrence plays Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, is to be released Dec. 25. Jennifer Lawrence Dismisses Rumors of Feud With Director David O. Russell 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z He was in urgent demand because he is the inventor who, in 1995, patented the filtration material used in disposable N95 respirators. The retired inventor of N95 masks is back at work, mostly for free, to fight covid-19 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Surely the name of its author, Brian Selznick, caught his eye: Mr. Selznick is related to David O. Selznick, the producer of “Gone With the Wind” — kismet for a cinematic inventor like Mr. Scorsese. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z |
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