(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[...]
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THE Ave Challenge: Who will get the call from Stockholm next Sunday night.
THE-Ave.US Challenge: who is going to win the Nobel? Next Sunday night (US time), about 9 AM Monday Stockholm time, 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. I[...]
CHINA: Ai Weiwei Denounces Nobel Given to Chinese Apparatchnik
2012 NOBEL PRIZES Mo Yan win ‘denigrates’ Nobel lit prize: artist The Swedish Academy’s choice of Mo Yan for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been slammed by Chinese dissidents and regime critics, including artist Ai Weiwei who called the decision “a joke”. READ [...]
October 8th, 2012 - 8:40 am § in Misc.
NOBEL PRIZE: Yamanaka and Gurdon
STOCKHOLM (AP) — British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells — a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. See [...]
When Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
(As we celebrate the annual approach of ) the fresh Nobel Peace Prize winners, let us remember for a minute about a great loser of the Nobel Peace Prize, too. “You probably know” – said in 1995 Gustav Hendrikssen, emeritus professor of the University of Uppsala – “that immediately after th[...]
Nobel Prizes: Jewish Pride
Last Year, four Jews Jews won the Nobel prize for medicine and astronomy. Monday October 8, Stockholm will announce this year’s winners. May I be forgiven my prideful hope?[...]
THE-Ave.US Challenge: who is going to win the Nobel?
Next Sunday night (US time), about 9 AM Monday Stockholm time, 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 wher[...]
September 14th, 2012 - 8:34 am § in Uncategorized
Nobel Prize Cut by One Fifth!
Sagging Global Economy Causes NOBEL PRIZE Prize Winnings To Be Slashed 20%! For those in the waiting …. bad news![...]
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[...]