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Time for a bit of non-controvertial good news in this forum inhabited by sourpusses. Just saw a short clip on TV regarding this year's recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Economist Professor Muhammad Yunus. I was impressed and googled a bit, finding among other things his acceptance speech...

STOCKHOLM — Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one common trait: They're all American. The members who cast the ballots for the winners of the prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry aren't surprised. Gunnar Oquist, the permanent secretary for...

I just watched an interview on The News Hour with Arthur Kornberg (medicine, 1959) and Roger Kornberg (chemistry, 2006). It was great to hear them both wax poetic in expressing the importance of science and the joy of its pursuit. The elder's prize was for "studies of how genetic information is...

...to two physicists for their work on the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and the anisotropy therein: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/03/nobel.physics.ap/index.html (An aside: I knew Smoot when I was a grad student at UC Berkeley.)

Eric A. Cornell, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, has an essay in the current issue of TIME magazine in which he addresses, among other things, the notion of teaching intelligent design theory in science curricula: "What Was God Thinking? Science Can't Tell"

I wonder how nobody from our British friends has started a thread about that. One of the living legends of modern theatre, the British writer Harold Pinter, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I am thrilled with the news because just before the announcement I was wondering which unknown...

Congratulations to Barry Marshall and Robert Warren, who have been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine for demonstrating the role of Helicobacter pylori in stomach ulcers. Homeopaths and others take note: here we have someone who was up against the medical establishment and “Big Pharma”...

This year's prize goes to Elfriede Jelinek of austria, who writes plays against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Who is this person? I've never heard of her. Also the co-winner is Kenya's Wangari Maathai (big on your reading list, right?) who suggests that AIDS is a biological weapon that the West...

Once again the Nobel prizes are being awarded and once again Americans shared in all the prizes in the sciences. It must be something in the water because there is no way that our evil, capitalist culture could be good in any way. Six American shared the prizes along with 2 Israelis. This...

Does anyone have predictions as to who's going to win - any category. I don't know enough about how they choose the finalists or the winner. http://nobelprize.org/

From Yahoo and Hollywood Reporter: Before we laugh too hard at this, let's pause and remember that Sesame Street started out with minority characters (such as Gordon and Susan) who were presented on equal footing with white characters and Latino characters. It's more common now, but in the...

A very public squabble is developing over the decision to award this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine to two developers of Magnetic Resonance Imaging but not the actual inventor. The man who did not win Here's the juicy bit: So what do you think? Should the committee let Dr. Damadian's...

I think i have the answer to this one but does anyone know if someone who is nominated for a Nobel Prize would know that they have been nominated? Reason for asking is there seem to be a lot of Nobel Nominees out there and i was under the impression that nominees names are a secret for at least...