It seems that countries with the highest regular chocolate intake per person have a proportionally greater number of Nobel Prize, winners, researchers from Kings College London and the Wellcome Trust have revealed in a new book. The NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) has an article on this...
Potholer54 has written a letter to Monkton that you will want to read, and he's also made a video that you will want to see. First the letter (from here):
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Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have won the Nobel Prize for economics for their work on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
Sample their work here.
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The finding for which this year's Chemistry Nobel was awarded earlier today was sufficiently unexpected and counter to the orthodoxy of the time that today's prize winner was tossed out of his own research group for reporting it. His 1982 discovery has to do with how atoms are organized in...
"In 1998, cosmology was shaken at its foundations as two research teams presented their findings. Headed by Saul Perlmutter, one of the teams had set to work in 1988. Brian Schmidt headed another team, launched at the end of 1994, where Adam Riess was to play a crucial role. ...
"The two...
The prize went to Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffmann, and Ralph Steinman for their work on the immune system.
Beutler and Hoffmann worked on the activation of innate immunity in humans. In other words, the link between cytokine and swelling and related issues. Among other things, this work...
On Barnes & Nobel web site, they state the following: "The largest collection of books, kids' books, magazines & newspapers — over 2 Million — a single search away! Thousands are FREE, most others $9.99 or less"....I only seen 100 "Free" NOOKbooks....Am I missing somthing???
i have heard than A G Bell had his Nobel prize ( for inventing the telephone) taken away, and given to the real inventor. dos anyone know if this is true?
Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" - a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which had warned the Nobel committee not to honor him. Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel...
... Mario Vargas Llosa.
From Wikipedia, we learn that his name is prounouced: "['ma?jo '?ar?az '?osa]" Thank you very much Wikipedia, that was so xwe?ul.
Anyway, Vargas Llosa wrote La ciudad y los perros, La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the Conversación en la catedral.
Many of Vargas...
The three are organic chemists, and each independently came up with new ways to make complex organic molecules, in this case, carbon-to-carbon bonds.The chemical processes are now used worldwide in commercial production of pharmaceuticals, including potential cancer drugs. The molecules are also...
Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples to have children. "His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a...
The alternative Nobel Prize awards, the Ig Nobels, have been called for another year, with this particular winner making everyone laugh with an rc helicopter that collects whales' mucus and breath. A deserving winner, I think you might agree. More »
interest in psi? Nobel Laureate and professor of physics at Cambridge has been asked not to attend a conference on Foundations of Physics because of their interest in psi http://religionscholars.commons.gc.cuny.edu/tag/secularism/
David Peat has a PhD in physics from a top UK university, and...