Posts Tagged ‘Prizes’
Appetite-regulating Hormones In Focus As First Nobel Prizes Fall
Research into hormones that regulate appetite is seen leading the race for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, to be awarded Monday — the first in this year’s Nobel season. At a time when more than one billion people suffer from obesity, research into the hormone called “glucagon-like peptide 1” (GLP-1) could be given the nod…
Read MoreWhite House Demands Reporters’ Pulitzer Prizes Be Stripped for ‘Perpetuating a Hoax’
The White House demanded that journalists who won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 election have their awards stripped for “perpetuating a hoax.” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt bashed reporters during a White House press briefing Wednesday following a release from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence claiming to have…
Read MoreImmigrants Could Compete for Citizenship in DHS-Approved Reality Show, Complete With ‘American’ Prizes
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly backing a reality TV competition where pre-vetted immigrants would compete in themed challenges for the chance to fast-track U.S. citizenship and win “American” prizes. Noem, dubbed “ICE Barbie” by detractors, has faced mounting criticism since taking over DHS in January 2025 for prioritizing photo ops and dramatized field…
Read More‘Anora’ Wins Top Hollywood Producer And Director Prizes
“Anora” was named the best film of the year by Hollywood’s directors and producers on Saturday, cementing its new status as the film to beat at the upcoming Oscars. The black comedy from director Sean Baker, about an erotic dancer’s whirlwind romance gone wrong, picked up the prestigious Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild…
Read MoreBackside Breathing And Pigeon Bombers Studies Win Ig Nobel Prizes
Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year’s Ig Nobels, the quirky alternative to the Nobel prizes. The annual awards “for achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think”,…
Read MoreBrighty App Partners With Willyrex For High-Stakes Minecraft Contest With Bitcoin Prizes
KEY POINTS The contest has a total prize pool of $43,000 in Bitcoin The Crypt Hunters Contest will feature gameplay on a designated Minecraft server Brighty App sees the campaign as a chance for gamers to earn competitive reward opportunities through crypto Rising neo-digital bank Brighty App has partnered with gamer and streamer Willyrex for…
Read MoreFlipster Debuts ‘The Dragon’s Treasure’ Trading Competition Series with 1 million USDT worth of prizes
Warsaw, Poland, December 14th, 2023, Chainwire Flipster, the fast-growing crypto trading platform, released its final campaign series for the year. Named ‘The Dragon’s Treasure’, this campaign is Flipster’s first themed event, consisting of an initial nine trading competitions over seven weeks with up to 1 million USDT worth of prizes to be given out. The…
Read MoreBinaryX Hackathon: US$25,000 Cash Prizes For Gaming Developers Looking to Shape the Future of GameFi
Chainwire Singapore, Singapore, August 21st, 2023, Chainwire BinaryX, a leading GameFi and IGO platform, announced today their first-ever hackathon event. BinaryX Online Hackathon 2023 is designed to encourage creativity, innovation, and collaboration among developers within the GameFi community, with the aim of discovering the next wave of GameFi advancements. BinaryX called for both emerging and…
Read MoreWide Open Race For Venice Film Fest Prizes
Critics praised a career-best performance from Hugh Jackman in “The Son” The race was wide open ahead of awards night in Venice on Saturday, after a festival featuring a dark Marilyn Monroe biopic, an imprisoned Iranian director and a morbidly obese Brendan Fraser. Critics have been deeply divided on many of the 23 films in…
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