Season 1 of 13 Reasons Why explores the suicide of Hannah Baker, who leaves a set of tapes explaining why she took her own life. The 13 reasons include her reputation getting completely destroyed at school, her friends abandoning her and, crucially, her rape at the hands of Bryce Walker…
Frederick Sanger is one out of two laureates to be awarded the Nobel prize twice in the same subject, in 1958 and 1980. John Bardeen is the other and was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and 1972. The only person twice decorated with a Nobel Prize not…
Richard Sweir, an “activist” who tried to get her novel, Speak banned in Florida, decided to participate in the comments section. Dr. Sweir called Speak “child pornography” because the book deals with rape and he feels that having 8th grade students read the book is akin to child abuse. Fiction…
*Update as of January 13, 2022 – AFI announced the 2021 AFI AWARDS celebration will take place on March 11, 2022. FDA issues our Scientific Achievement Awards each year to recognize our scientists who have made outstanding contributions to advancing regulatory science. FDA gives 16 awards to both individuals and…
By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the forty thousand Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica, a group which was emblematic of the Bosnian Muslims in general. What caused the Bosnian ethnic cleansing? In the report, the ethnic…
The first and most recognized scientific award is the Nobel Prize which is named after Swedish inventor Alfred Bernard Nobel. Nobel is awarded each year worldwide in the fields of chemistry, economics, literature, peace, physics and physiology or medicine. FDA issues our Scientific Achievement Awards each year to recognize our…
As numerous miserable heroes can tell you, if there is one person you don’t want to make angry in Greek mythology, it’s Hera. When the queen of the gods discovered Echo’s trick, she cursed her, robbing her of her power to speak for herself, and decreeing that hereafter the girl…
1- Speech-language therapy. 2- Occupational and physical therapy. 3- Counseling. 4- Adaptive physical education (accommodations for gym class) 5- Early identification and screening. 6- School health services. 7- Social work. Special education services may be provided across a variety of educational environments to students who have an individualized education program…
In the United States, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama imposed a health insurance mandate which took effect in 2014. Under this law, insurance companies are restricted in their ability to alter insurance rates based on the current health of the individual buying the…
The fund, which is a sovereign wealth fund, pays out annual dividends to every eligible citizen of Alaska. All Alaskan citizens with a residence of one year or more are eligible, except for those who have been convicted of state felonies, are incarcerated, or are convicted of specific misdemeanors. Under…