Sunday, August 17, 2014

Iran, newspapers "censors" the picture of the winner of the "Nobel Prize" for mathematics

The scientist of Iranian origin and the first woman to win the Fields Medal. But his uncovered head has embarrassed the newspapers
Iran, giornali "censurano" la foto della vincitrice del "Premio Nobel" per la matematicaTEHERAN - When Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal, the "Nobel prize" of mathematics, a thrill and course along the back of the directors of Iranian newspapers. Professor at Stanford University, was not only the first woman to win the scope i press, was also of Iranian origin. A movement of national pride has moved the country, the president, Hassan Rohani, congratulated the winner with an official press release. You can't deal with it, but what to do with the picture of the scientist portrayed in all over the world without the web? Inconceivable publish it so.
As writes the site of Radio Free Europe, the stratagems were immediately reported on Twitter and other social networks, one of the few communication channels free in Iran. THE Iranian newspapers have given fund to the imagination. In one case the face of the professor was "molten" artistically in whiteboard with the mathematical formulas in the background, so that the hair is under any illusions with the rest, in another it was just added with Photoshop a veil. Other more simply have cropped the photo of the face in such a way as to show only part of the face without hair.
Iran, giornali "censurano" la foto della vincitrice del "Premio Nobel" per la matematica

Iran, giornali "censurano" la foto della vincitrice del "Premio Nobel" per la matematica