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Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada
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CmdrTaco
on Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:43 AM
from the oh-canada dept.
from the oh-canada dept.
thepacketmaster learned of "...the possibility of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is considering an invitation to come work at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged to move to Ontario by his University of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok, the mathematical physicist who will take over as Perimeter's executive director on Oct. 1. Perimeter confirmed last night that it has made a standing offer to Hawking...Turok is leaving Cambridge after failing to persuade university authorities, research councils and sponsors to spend $40 million...By comparison, Waterloo's Perimeter Institute has about $600 million in funding...The addition of Hawking to Perimeter's staff of top physicists would be a major coup for the research institute, founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.'"
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Didn't... (Score:5, Insightful)
all the top phycisits start leaving Germany when things started going downhill?
Re:Didn't... (Score:5, Funny)
And the physicists left too!
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Re:yes but there was a difference. (Score:5, Funny)
I guess you don't know where Cambridge is. Must be an American.
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Re:yes but there was a difference. (Score:5, Insightful)
You laugh... but I've known people who live in Maine that couldn't find Canada on a map. I could understand from the deep south, where Canada is a mythical land of igloos and Eskimos, but Maine?!? There's parts of Canada that are further south than Maine, and there was a time when that state was part of Canada, for crying out loud....
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Re:yes but there was a difference. (Score:5, Informative)
To be fair, we have a Cambridge on this side of the pond, in Massachusetts, and it's home to a rather prestigious institution of higher learning. If one were unfamiliar with the work or background Stephen Hawking, it would be an innocent mistake to confuse our Cambridge (town) with your Cambridge (university).
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Re:yes but there was a difference. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:yes but there was a difference. (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:yes but there was a difference. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Actually.... (Score:5, Funny)
Its our (Score:5, Funny)
Its our national healthcare system.
Like Freeman, but more not theoretical (Score:5, Funny)
Mr. Turok, mathematical physicist and dinosaur hunter, to you, pal.
Re:Like Freeman, but more not theoretical (Score:5, Funny)
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The voice (Score:5, Funny)
Can we get the computerized voice with a Canadian accent, eh?
no! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you get it? If you die in Canada you die in real life! [xkcd.com]
British? (Score:5, Funny)
They see me rollin (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Stephen Hawking changed his mind about what he wanted to eat for lunch.
"At first I thought I wanted fish," said Mr. Hawkings, "but then I decided I did not want fish. I eventually went with spaghetti."
There is much debate in science-related blogs as well as in academia about the significance of this change.
Public Lectures (Score:5, Informative)
The Institute has most of them available for offline viewing and reading [perimeterinstitute.ca]. Maybe they could get Stephen Hawking one day.
Heavy Duty Keyboard On Order For Speeches... (Score:5, Funny)
"steVen"? (Score:5, Informative)
Sounds like a headline from a 007 movie (Score:5, Funny)
"World's leading physicist moves to the university in the middle of nowhere"
I wonder...
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Re:who in their right mind (Score:5, Insightful)
I am a grad student in physics at waterloo (phd) and my female counterparts do not get paid anymore than me from the uni. Where the heck did you hear this?
Are you sure that you aren't just talking about 3rd party scholarships that are only available to women? The amount from you get from the actual university is the same for men and women.
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Re:NOOoOOOO!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Your ideas are shaped not just by your capabilities, but the ideas and interactions you came up with when you were growing up.
I believe that there is a significant percentage of population (probably around 10%) that could be just as bright as the top people in sciences, but they just took a different path. They didn't get the encouragements, or maybe they just didn't meet a friend in the 5th grade that had the same interest as them.
There is more to whom we become than some political structure. The ultimate you is shaped MUCH closer to your personal life than even the city hall.
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Re:NOOoOOOO!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
The same could be said for countries as a whole. One would expect to find a greater proportion of scientists in an industrialized country over an agrarian one, or over a nation that has only recently industrialized.
I am not trying to make a nationalistic or xenophobic argument against India or China, because I know for a fact that they have lots of brilliant people, I am just trying to delve deeper into the notion that a larger national population equals a larger population of [whatever else].
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Re:Waterloo is getting there... (Score:5, Funny)
There's lots of movies with references to Waterloo, though they generally deal with this Napoleon guy, I guess he was a bigshot there.
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