About 9 AM Stockholm time Monday, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. Here is Thompsons’s list with my thumb added in an appropriate direction where[...]
Archive for September 23rd, 2011
September 23rd, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
The AVE Challenge: Who is going to win the Nobel Sunday Night?
September 23rd, 2011 - 9:29 am § in Misc.
Was the $5 Billion Worth It?
A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. from WSJ By JASON L. RILEY (Excerpts) ‘It’s hard to improve public education—that’s clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you’re picking stocks, you wouldn’t [...]
September 23rd, 2011 - 7:32 am § in Misc.
Ave Challenge: UW History Test
Who called the University “University of a Thousand Years?” Answer[...]
Drop that Reefer and Eat Your Chocolate!
One of the goodies in chocolate is anandamide (from the Sanskrit word “ananda,” which means peaceful bliss). Anandamide binds to the same receptor sites in the brain as cannabinoids — the psychoactive constituents in marijuana — and produces feelings of elation and exhilara[...]