(Reuters) – British-American John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s navigation system and giving clues as to how strokes and Alzheimer’s disrupt it. Ole Kiehn, a Nobel committee member and pro[...]
Archive for October 6th, 2014
SCOTUS Leaves Gay Marriage Intact!
“The Supreme Court turned away appeals Monday from five states seeking to prohibit same-sex marriages, paving the way for an immediate expansion of gay and lesbian unions …, but the justices stopped short of resolving for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide. The courtR[...]
Being Bedouin in a Jewish State
The Apartheid Dilemma .. Lessons for the US from Israel’s Bedouins. The anti Zionist left castigates Israel for being an apartheid state. To some extent they are correct. Even leaving aside the harsh issue of the occupied west bank and Gaza, there is a real issue in Israel itself. How do[...]
A Nobel for this???
“U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian scientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering the ‘inner GPS’ that helps the brain navigate through the world,” according to CBS News. Hummph. Given that most pe[...]