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  1. Tricky

    The Twenty Dollar Challenge

    Here's the challenge rules. Craft a truly well written post. Get it nominated (bribe people if you must) Get The Language Dictator to make your nomination one of the finalists (bribery won't help here) Get everyone to vote for it. (Okay, bribery works again now).And that's it. If you...
  2. Tricky

    I know what you will do after you read this thread.

    You will vote for the April Language Award. Well, some of you will anyway. Some of you maybe have already. (I can't tell for sure. My power is somewhat limited). You, on the other hand, have the power to elect the next winner of $20 in JREF merchandise. Use the power. I know you can.
  3. Tricky

    Do you think nobody cares?

    Well you're wrong. Lots of people care. Are you one of them? Then vote for the April Language Award and give some caring person $20 in JREF goodies. Or so they want you to think...
  4. Tricky

    Suppose you could elect God?

    Well, you can't. But you can elect the April winner of The Language Award. And unlike God, they are eligible for a wonderful prize of $20 in JREF merchandise. Now I know what the Bible meant when the Big Guy says, "I am a jealous God".
  5. Tricky

    If Don Imus were carrying a gun...

    He still couldn't have voted for the winner in the April Language award. Only JREF members can do that. And yet, some people still ignore this precious freedom. Don't be one of them.
  6. J

    Nobel Prize official on why American scientists win more Nobels

    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...
  7. Vorticity

    Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded

    ...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.)
  8. Y

    Million dollar prize in relation to conspiracy theories

    I know the prize is usually for "paranormal" events, but would someone proving the existence of "chemtrails" be elgible? I am wondering because I'm in the middle of a debate with someone who now claims that he has personally seen "chemtrails" being distributed. He offered photos but I demanded...
  9. S

    Cuban scientist barred from receiving U.S. prize

    From MSNBC news online: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10010619/ Hey, Beerina.... How soon will that moon colony be operational?
  10. C

    Harold Pinter wins Nobel Prize for Literature

    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...
  11. Mojo

    2005 Nobel Prize: how to do science

    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”...
  12. A

    Do I get a prize?

    That's four Kumar topics in a row, none of which in my opinion make a great deal of sense. Is that a record? Does 'four in a row' get a prize? Athon
  13. tmackean

    Should the JREF prize cover pseudoscience?

    It worries me that the brief of the JREF extends beynd the paranormal or supernatural into the realms of conventional fraud. It's not that pseudoscience of the type covered by Randi almost every week in his commentaries isn't worthy of being brought to light, rather that I think it potentially...
  14. P

    Nobel Literature Prize

    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...
  15. C

    Nobel Prize winnng Americans

    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...
  16. J

    The Nobel Prize: who's going to win?

    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/
  17. M

    X Prize on the line

    It finally appears as if someone is about to claim the X prize. Article
  18. Badly Shaved Monkey

    The booby prize for epidemiology goes to

    kkrista at Hpathy; http://homeopathyforums.hpathy.com//forum_posts.asp?TID=1913 "Good diet, clean environment and all will be well in time.Â_I wouldn't do any more "flea control" other than plain bathing with dish detergent (leave on for 10 minutes-kills fleas and the eggs go down the drain...
  19. Z

    Canadian team going after X Prize

    Story
  20. D

    Application to challenge for the prize has been submitted

    My application to challenge for the JREF award has been sent to the JREF organization by way of certified mail on Tuesday July 13, 2004 1:18pm. The JREF has been gracious and kind enough to allow me to submit my application and I thank James Randi and his Foundation for allowing me to submit...
  21. D

    INTENT TO CHALLENGE FOR THE PRIZE

    THIS IS A NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. alienrockwherediditcomefrom.com This is a notice to the public that I intend to challenge for the one million dollar prize offered by the Randi challenge. Dalton
  22. Blondin

    Nobel Prize for MRI developers

    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...
  23. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Another $1 Million Prize

    Understand the origin of life? Win $1 million! http://us.net/life/ ~~ Paul
  24. headscratcher4

    Prize for IDing micro-life

    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&ncid=732&e=2&u=/ap/20030213/ap_on_re_eu/sweden_crafoord_prize

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