A Darwin Award is an honor given to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by "removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner." The prizes are named in honor of the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, are awarded over the World Wide Web, and are frequently distributed via email. There is no monetary or material prize associated with the Darwin Award, only infamous recognition. To take the premise of the award seriously is to suppose the stupidity of the awardees to be genetically determined, arguing that nature affects behavior mo ...

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Werner Hamacher (b. 1948) is a deconstructive literary critic and theorist. Hamacher is currently a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature (Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) and was previously Professor of German and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of "Pleroma -- Dialectics and Hermeneutics in Hegel" and "Premises: Essays on Philosophy from Kant to Celan". He is also the co-editor of the series Meridian: Crossing A

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Sir Bernard Crick (born 16 December 1929) is a British political theorist whose views are often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He seeks to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology. Bernard Crick - Life. During the 1980s, Crick was an advisor to Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labour Party. In 1997, Crick was appointed by his former student, David Blunkett, education secretary for the new UK Labour government, to chair a ...

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Darwin Awards - Requirements. According to Wendy Northcutt, the five requirements for a Darwin are Inability to reproduce - Nominee must be dead or sterile. A disputed issue, due to age, cloning, donation of reproductive cells, and celibacy. Should the elderly be allowed to win, their death having no impact on the gene pool? The general rule of thumb is that if the candidate no longer has the physical wherewithal to breed with a mate on an otherwise uninhabited island, they are ou ...

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Darwin Awards, Darwin Awards - Rules, Darwin Awards - Requirements, Darwin Awards - Not Darwins, Darwin Awards - Urban legends, Darwin Awards - History, Darwin Awards - Books, Darwin Awards - Movie

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They were created on Cybertron around the same time as the Stunticons as a countermeasure to the new Decepticon car team. Later on in the episode War Dawn they were sent back in time the Aerialbots and as a result were responsible for the creation of Optimus Prime. . In the episode The Rebirth Part 1, the Aerialbots are incapacitated by the Decepticon Sixshot. As the Decepticons invade Cybertron, they are first met by the Aerialbots. Galvatron orders Sixshot to deal with them, and he easily takes down each of the ...

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Arthur Holly Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio in 1892 to Elias and Otelia Compton. They were an academic family; his father Elias Compton was president of The College of Wooster, which Arthur attended. His eldest brother Karl Compton also attended The College of Wooster, became a physicist, and was later president of MIT; his second brother Wilson M. Compton became a diplomat and president of the State College of Washington, later Washington State University. Around 1913, Compton devised a ...

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Terror is only justice that is prompt, severe and inflexible. (Maximilien Robespierre) Some have argued that Robespierre's role in the Terror was but minor, and that he was a subordinate player within the Committee of Public Safety, whose contribution was ideological rather than practical. Other apologists such as Babeuf and Buonarroti have sought more reasonably to exculpate him on the grounds of practical expediency. However, although Robespierre may not have raised the levers on the guillotine himself, as the leader, mouthpiece and articulator of the Terror, that h ...

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Maximilien Robespierre, Maximilien Robespierre - Family and early life, Maximilien Robespierre - Early Politics, Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's opposition to war with Austria, Maximilien Robespierre - The great question regarding the execution of Louis XVI, Maximilien Robespierre - Destruction of the Girondins, Maximilien Robespierre - Foundation of the Committee of Public Safety, Maximilien Robespierre - The Terror, Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's downfall, Maximilien Robespierre - Historians' views of Robespierre

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Greenblatt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1943. He studied at Yale University (B.A. 1964, M.Phil 1968, Ph.D. 1969) and Pembroke College, Cambridge (A.B. 1966, M.A. 1968). Greenblatt has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. He is a founding editor of the scholarly journal Representations and has served as president of the Modern Language Association (MLA). His area of specialty is the early modern period. He has written extensively on William Shakespeare and is the general editor of The Norton ...

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Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Greenblatt - Biography, Stephen Greenblatt - Awards, Stephen Greenblatt - Major works

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Darwin Awards - Requirements. The five requirements for a Darwin are Inability to reproduce - Nominee must be dead or sterile. A disputed issue, due to age, cloning, donation of reproductive cells, and celibacy. Should the elderly be allowed to win, their death having no impact on the gene pool? The general rule of thumb is that if the candidate no longer has the physical wherewithal to breed with a mate on an otherwise uninhabited island, they are out of the gene pool. However, o ...

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In 1966 de Man met Jacques Derrida at a Johns Hopkins conference on structuralism at which Derrida first delivered "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." The two became close friends and colleagues. De Man elaborated a distinct deconstruction in his philosophically-oriented literary criticism of John Keats, Maurice Blanchot, Marcel Proust, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, GWF Hegel, Walter Benjamin, German Roman ...

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Sedgwick has published several books considered groundbreaking in the field of queer theory, including Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire and Epistemology of the Closet. Her work can be seen as an attempt to expose how male homophobia has shaped modern Western culture, including our modern views on sexuality, privacy, family, gender, and women. Eve Kosof ...

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Some have argued that Robespierre's role in the Terror was but minor, and that he was a subordinate player within the Committee of Public Safety, whose contribution was ideological rather than practical. Other apologists such as Babeuf and Buonarroti have sought more reasonably to exculpate him on the grounds of practical expediency. However, as the leader, mouthpiece and articulator of the Terror, that he had a share in the responsibility cannot be denied. The Terror was initially based on Danton's idea that it was necessary to resor ...

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Maximilien Robespierre, Maximilien Robespierre - Family and early life, Maximilien Robespierre - Early politics, Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's opposition to war with Austria, Maximilien Robespierre - The great question regarding the execution of Louis XVI, Maximilien Robespierre - Destruction of the Girondins, Maximilien Robespierre - Foundation of the Committee of Public Safety, Maximilien Robespierre - The Terror, Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's downfall, Maximilien Robespierre - Historians' views of Robespierre

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With Alan Sinfield, he co-founded the Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change MA in English at the University of Sussex, one of the only humanities-based graduate programs of its kind. This makes it a high profile and competitive program that attracts students from around the world. Dollimore was Reader in the School of English and American Studies and currently an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, University of Sussex. He is also a Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York. H ...

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Jameson was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Haverford College in 1954, he briefly travelled to Europe, studying at Aix-en-Provence, Munich and Berlin, where he learned of new developments in continental philosophy including the rise of structuralism. He returned to America the following year to pursue a doctoral degree at Yale, where he studied under Erich Auerbach. Fredric Jameson - Early works. Erich Auerbach would prove to be a lasting influence on Jameson's thought. This was already appa ...

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Fredric Jameson, Fredric Jameson - Life and works, Fredric Jameson - Early works, Fredric Jameson - Research into Marxism, Fredric Jameson - Analysis of structuralism, Fredric Jameson - Narrative and history, Fredric Jameson - The critique of postmodernism, Fredric Jameson - Recent work, Fredric Jameson - Bibliography

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List of people from Nebraska - Film/Theater. Adele Astaire (1897-1981), dancer and entertainer Fred Astaire (1899-1987), dancer and actor John Beasley (1943 -), actor Ward Bond (1903-1960), actor Marlon Brando (1924-2004), Academy Award winning actor Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), actor James Coburn (1928-2002), actor Sandy Dennis (1937-1992), actress David Doyle (1929-1997), actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Academy Award winning ...

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List of polymaths - A to J. Jeremy Bentham, jurist, inventor, philosopher, mathematician, economist, and political commentator William Blake, poet, painter, engraver, visionary mystic Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, and poet Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer, linguist, anthropologist, diplomat and swordsman Sir George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, invento ...

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Hayles received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966, her M.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1969, her M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1977. She has taught at the University of Iowa, University of Missouri, Rolla, the California Institute of Technology, and Dartmouth College. She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, L ...

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In English this play is often referred to as The Good Woman of Setzuan, as it appears in the authoritative translation of the text prepared by pre-eminent Brecht scholar Eric Bentley, in which he chooses to suggest an exclusively feminine title character. In the original German, however, the play is titled "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan", and so the most linguistically accurate and less gender-specific title would be The Good Person of Sezuan." Most subsequent translations (such as that of John Willet) use the unisex ...

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The Good Person of Sezuan, The Good Person of Sezuan - Title & Theme, The Good Person of Sezuan - Plot Summary

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Darwin Awards have circulated for a long time as emails. The Google Usenet archive shows two early mentions of the Darwin Awards, one dated 1985-08-07 Vending Machine Tipover, which wasn't mentioned on Usenet again until it was referenced in the 1990-12-07 version of the JATO Rocket Car. It lists the JATO Rocket Car urban legend that incorporated the second recorded use of the term "Darwin Award" back in 1990 and ...

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He was born in Arras, France. A myth persists that his family was of Irish descent, having emigrated from Ireland at the time of the Protestant Reformation for religious reasons, and that his direct ancestors in the male line had been notaries in the little village of Carvin near Arras from the beginning of the 17th century. However, several genealogists have traced his family back to the Middle Ages in Northern France. His paternal grandfather established himself in Arras as an advocate. His father, who followed the same profession, ...

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Maximilien Robespierre, Maximilien Robespierre - Family and early life, Maximilien Robespierre - Early politics, Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's opposition to war with Austria, Maximilien Robespierre - The great question regarding the execution of Louis XVI, Maximilien Robespierre - Destruction of the Girondins, Maximilien Robespierre - Foundation of the Committee of Public Safety, Maximilien Robespierre - The Terror, Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's downfall, Maximilien Robespierre - Historians' views of Robespierre

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