Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met again, on Sunday night at the Saint Louis' Washington University for the second debate of the November 8 election campaign. Trump organised, with only two hours before, a press conference together with the women that accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. For the Hillary Clinton's campaign team this was not a surprise, being a 'desperate … [Read more...]
Maria Sharapova comes back in tennis for a charity game
The Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, suspended for taking illegal substances, came back on the tennis court for a demonstrative tour in Las Vegas. She was one of the stars that participated at the World Team Tennis Smash Hits, organized outdoors in front of one of the famous Las Vegas casinos and dedicated to the fund-raising for the Elton John Foundation that fights … [Read more...]
Facebook launches Workplace, the private social network for business
Facebook company lunched Workplace, a tool and a communication platform dedicated to business and to the non-governmental organisations that can replace the intranet, the e-mail or other communication ways at job. Among the companies that have already installed this application are Starbucks and Danone. The general director of the Workplace, Julien Codorniou, stated that the … [Read more...]
‘Miss Peregrine’ – first on the North American box-office
The fantasy movie 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children', with Eva Green in the role of a 'weirder Mary Poppins' and with Samuel L. Jackson in a negative role, managed to be on the first place in the North American box-office, although it gathered only $28,5 million, a modest amount. The movie directed by Tim Burton tells the story of a special place for the children … [Read more...]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – an agreement regarding their 6 children
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie came to an agreement regarding their six children, according to TMZ which quotes confidential sources. These sources declared to the journalists that the famous Hollywood couple, going through a divorce, got to an agreement regarding the children, at the recommendation of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, a family … [Read more...]
The Nobel Prize for Medicine opens the 2016 Nobel distinctions season
The 2016 Nobel season will be open today, with the announcement of the medicine distinction winner. In the following 10 days, the other prizes for science, peace and literature will be awarded. The winners of the medicine prize will be announced by Thomas Perlmann, the secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine, on October 3. According to the Swedish radio SR, … [Read more...]
Charles Richter, the initiator of the Richter magnitude scale, became a seismologist from an ‘error’
On September 30, 1985, the initiator of the famous magnitude scale Richter, passed away. Charles Francis Richter spent the most of his life in California, in a vulnerable area from the seismic point of view and he made studies in this domain at the Stanford University, being familiarized with the researches of the Pasadena seismology Laboratory. In one of the rare given … [Read more...]