Per Crucem ad Lucem (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
‘The Nobel Peace Prize committee might well have made truly worthy choices, prominent among them the remarkable Afghan activist Malalai Joya. This brave woman survived the Russians, and then the radical Islamists whose brutality was so extreme that the population welcomed the Taliban. Joya has withstood the Taliban and now the return of the warlords [...]
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
After just spotting the headline of this WSJ story and then reading the first paragraph or two, it seemed a sure target for ridicule, particularly since that's what is done around here most of the time. But, after reading the whole report, that view had to be reconsidered. Chávez Discounts Accuracy of GDP President Hugo Chávez wasn't pleased with data released this week that showed the...
The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andrew Malcolm wrote this up yesterday , news from the last stop of Obama's Asia trip: Even President Obama himself during his just-concluded trip to Asia admitted that he was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year without actually producing any peace. In fact, the rookie American president ordered his own troop surge, boosting U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan to 68,000. Now,...
Wirearchy (Free subscription) | yesterday
. Lovely concept … Via Twitter … Join @wired in nominating the internet for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as “the first weapon of mass construction.” http://bit.ly/5Th6w5 . Go … nominate … vote when it’s possible. It’s pretty much all we’ve got left, besides you and me and the rest of ourselves. .
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, but for folks who don’t want to read the blow-by-blow description, here’s a summary. Perhaps the most significant point: That energy efficiency is “the...
Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh, known for making forthright comments, today said if there was any Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would get it.
The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are overflowing as administrators cut back on cleaners.
Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | yesterday
Denise Gellene in the New York Times is reporting this morning that Scottish physician, Sir John Crofton, passed away on 3 November at age 97. Crofton is best known for implementing a combination drug regimen to treat tuberculosis, the insidious lung infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis which decimated the US early last century and still kills 2 million a year worldwide. The concept of using...
In Flanders Fields (Free subscription) | yesterday
The environmental lobby gradually succeeds in promoting "the environment" to the "Golden Calf" of the 21st century. Rationality and sense of proportion have vanished from the environmental debate. Whoever questions Al Gore's climate alarmism gets labeled as "negationist" worse even than Holocaust deniers. Even human rights, democracy and prosperity give way to the new...
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
And lately, a fierce new argument has been engaged in the fragile household of the international community: should Barack Obama have won the Nobel Peace Prize ? The President of the United States being rewarded for “his extraordinary …Click Here
baithak (Free subscription) | yesterday
Writing About Pakistan, but ‘No Beards, No Bombs’ - As announcers urged the crowd at the National Book Awards party to take their dinner seats, Daniyal Mueenuddin , the Pakistani-American author of “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” hung back to chat briefly about his work and the wonder of being nominated for a prestigious literary award. “What it feels is a little premature,”...
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nobel genius Al Gore has invented steel that can drill through materials as hot as “several millions of degrees,” necessary to tap geothermal energy. The necessary annealing of steel at minus 2 million degrees Kelvin is easier than getting global warming from carbon dioxide, unless the global warming is computer aided. Gore figured both out; [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Straight from GreenBeat 2009, we bring you former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. I’ll be live-blogging this session — so it won’t be perfect or word-for-word, but it will be fast! We’ll pull out the gems as soon as we can. Laura Ipsen, Cisco System’s smart grid guru is introducing Al Gore right now, highlighting his many achievements and awards. He’s...
Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | yesterday
The above is the national motto of Belgium, and means "strength through unity". A few years ago, the then Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt said, “Belgium is the laboratory of European unification”. I have long had great respect for Belgium, and her contributon to the European Project. As a student of the history of the EU, I well know the hard work and vision of people like Paul-Henri...
The Register (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Seeks political scientists SC09 Former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did his self-deprecating politician and climate change champion routine as a keynote for the HPC (high performance computing) faithful at the SC09 trade show in Portland, Oregon, this morning and did his best to get the HPC community fired up about the job they need to do to help normal people (as well as politicians)...
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ifp | 02/09/2009
Tap water in France is unsafe to drink for those with a serious illness claims a French scientist . According to a David Servan-Schreiber, a French scientist from the World Wildlife Fund, those suffering from a major illness should not drink tap water as he considered it was potentially harmful to them, primarily because of the presence of nitrates and pesticides in it. The comments last month were...
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