The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada.Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed its present name in 1850 upon becoming a …

Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success.Laborit was recognized for his work, but as a surgeon searching for …

Leroy "Lee" Edward Hood (born October 10, 1938) is an American biologist who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington. Hood has developed ground-breaking scientific instruments which made possible major advances in the biological sciences and the medical sciences. These include the first gas phase protein …

Etymology. The English word world comes from the Old English weorold.The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic * weraldiz, a compound of weraz 'man' and aldiz 'age', thus literally meaning roughly 'age of man'; this word also led to Old Frisian warld, Old Saxon werold, Old Dutch werolt, Old High German weralt, and Old Norse verǫld.. The corresponding word in …

Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film directed by Penny Marshall.It is written by Steven Zaillian, who based his screenplay on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir Awakenings.It tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), based on Sacks, who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa in 1969.He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the …

WarGames is a 1983 American science fiction techno-thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict …

The Four Freedoms Award is an annual award presented to "those men and women whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to those principles which US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed in his Four Freedoms speech to the United States Congress on January 6, 1941, as essential to democracy: "freedom of speech and expression, freedom of …

Walter F. Parkes (born April 15, 1951) is an American producer, screenwriter, and media executive. The producer of more than 50 films, including the Men in Black series and Minority Report, he is the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive.. Parkes and his wife and business partner, producer Laurie MacDonald, helped to build DreamWorks, with Parkes the …

The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the three film writing awards given by the Writers Guild of America Winners and nominees Notes ... Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes: Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen The Big Chill: Lawrence Kasdan, and Barbara Benedek: Risky Business: Paul Brickman: Zelig:

The Constellation class is a class of multi-mission guided-missile frigates under development for the United States Navy as a follow-on to the modular littoral combat ship. The U.S. Navy announced the FFG(X) frigate project in the United States Department of Defense Request For Information (RFI) on 10 July 2017.. The U.S. Navy selected five shipbuilders to evolve their …