Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Telenor Norway may face a lawsuit as the Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus may sue the telecom group, which, reportedly, was in a bid to gain a full control over the Grameenphone. Grameenphone was founded by Telenor and Grameen Telecom 12 years back and was launched by Yunus and Telenor owns 62% of the Grameenphone. Yunus has [...]
Let's Fly Under the Bridge (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
One might think that such an author would be pleased. But, that's before the Nobelist Palinnihilates* it : Turmoil in the financial market and insecurity in the labor market--we have plenty of both--bring out good and bad books, like good and bad mushrooms after a rain. In the instance before us it is the financial market that is in turmoil, and this is definitely not a good book. ....Kevin Phillips...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to Theodor Hänsch, director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Germany and one of the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, a 'laser frequency comb' can now be used as a basis for new astronomical instruments. Telescopes using this method, which could 'answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come...
The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ivar Giaever , a Nobel prize winner, argued that it takes a decade for a solar roof panel to return the energy that was needed to produce it. He was attacked by a few alarmists who didn't have any arguments or better numbers but who just found Giaever's observation inconvenient. Was he right? Well, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors ( RICS ) asked a similar question: how much time does it take...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t---." (BBC) My...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Anatole France was a Nobel prize-winning author, Glyn Maxwell is a poet of some reputation and the French Revolution was a fair old shindig. The combination of all three – Maxwell writing a verse drama based on France's French novel Les dieux ont soif (roughly translated, that means even the top guys get thirsty) boded fairly well.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
One of my favourite things about life on this sceptred isle is the limitless British capacity to embrace what once repelled us. It's an extension of Alan Bennett's nostrum that the one requirement to be deemed worthy of the Nobel Prize is reaching 90 years old and being able to eat a boiled egg intact, and I call it Bob Monkhouse Syndrome By Proxy. However derided, distrusted, disregarded and disliked...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
LONDON: R. K. Pachauri was on Thursday re-elected Chairman of the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for a second six-year term. “The IPCC is happy to announce that its Chairman, Dr. Rajendra ...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at the telescope of a new calibration system for precise spectrographs. The method uses a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a 'laser frequency comb', and is published in this week's issue of Science.
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
To paraphrase a Nobel prize winner, everything that’s supposed to be up is down, and everything that’s down should be up. Republicans on the economy. Wall Street tumbled Thursday on more disappointing economic news — retailers posted sluggish back-to-school sales reports and the government said the number of workers seeking unemployment benefits spiked last week. The Dow [...]
Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Frtiz Lipmann is often credited with discovering ATP but that's not correct. He won his Nobel Prize for discovering Coenzyme A [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953]. However, it's fair to say that Lipmann made some of the most important contributions to our understanding of ATP as an energy currency. His classic 1941 paper in Advances in Enzymology was entitled "Metabolic Generation
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
By Jerry Del Colliano Al Gore wrote a book about global warming – later produced as a movie – that won him a Nobel Prize. Whether you agree or disagree with his point of view or his politics, sometimes it takes a slap in the face to wake up and consider reality. I’ve often wondered why we don’t see the press exposing the radio and record industries for what they are – throwbacks to another era. I’m...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at the telescope of a new calibration system for precise spectrographs. The method uses a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a "laser frequency comb," and is published in Science.
The Greenbelt (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Yeah, it's another pitch... Remember the Nobel Prize in 2006 - Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"? Those efforts were microlending: small loans to entrepreneurs - $1500, perhaps, or even less. It can turn someone's world around. But you had to have money to lend. But now, thanks to organizations like Kiva , you can get involved in...
The Right Coast (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Joseph Stiglitz wrote this screed. It seems pretty dreadful to me. Over-stated, full of wild claims, and not much reasoning. Not to mention lots of contrary to fact assumptions. Yes, there was a Great Depression, and it shook the confidence...
