Brian Cox, born March 3, 1968 is a renowned particle physicist and spokesman for science. This native of Chadderton, Lanacashire, has written books outlining the more abstruse aspects of modern physics for the sophisticated lay person and been awarded many honors, including an OBE (2010). Cox is (was, anyway) part of the research team at the Large Hadron Collider.
He and his wife (Gia Millinovich) and their cat posed for the 2011 Geek Calendar. From this picture we glimpse not just what a nice family he is part of, but a really amusing scene, where the fact that he can't fix a toaster, appalls his cat.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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