The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists (Oxford Paperbacks)
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.
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...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Dr. Donald Weaver, a Halifax researcher with unmatched credentials, received the Prix Galien Research Award at a ceremony in Ottawa last night. Known as the Nobel Prize of pharmaceutical research, this award is the highest distinction worldwide for biopharmaceutical work, and the most prestigious in the field of Canadian pharmaceutical research and innovation. Dr.
Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
That all economic transactions are costly in terms of finding, contracting with, and enforcing the arrangement we know from the seminal work of Ronald Coase, winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for economics. Finding the right price to pay among...
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...
The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are overflowing as administrators cut back on cleaners.
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,...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Nicolas Sarkozy gets his way (and he always does, doesn't he?) French writer and philosopher Albert Camus will find a new resting place on the famous burial grounds of the Panthéon in the Latin Quarter in Paris. Sounds like a good idea. His current grave in Lourmarin is hardly worthy of a Nobel Prize [...]
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,”...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | yesterday
Anyway, there he was in Seoul, the last stop of his journey. And out of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwon do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwon do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt. After zero long years of study. I spent one Saturday afternoon watching a couple of the guys at my gym go for their brown belt. They trained for...
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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