South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, 85, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote peace and international law", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pillay held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to victims of violence and conflict, and demonstrated a firm moral compass in her long career, the committee said. "A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time," the committee said. Navi Pillay was chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory that concluded last year that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Israel dismissed the report as "scandalous". The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won i...
Do you remember the summer of 2016? A new show appeared on Netflix with very little noise. No one knew it would become a giant hit. That show was Stranger Things. It was a scary, fun, and sweet show set in the 1980s. Today, we still talk about it. How did this simple show about kids on bikes become a global phenomenon? How the Duffer Brothers Kept Going Before we got the show, creators Matt and Ross Duffer had a hard time. They had a great idea. They wanted a show about a missing boy, a creepy monster, and a strange girl with powers. But many big TV networks said no. Some reports say they were rejected over fifteen times. The networks thought a show about kids would not work for adults. They wanted the brothers to make it a show for children. Or they wanted to focus only on the adult cop character. But the Duffer brothers did not give up. Finally, Netflix saw the magic in their idea. A Perfect Trip Back to the 1980s Stranger Things Season 1 came out in July 2016. It was se...