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Greenpeace UK blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Sarah is in Kinshasa, visiting our Congo office on their first anniversary. I write from our office in Kinshasa , in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In some ways it's very like any other Greenpeace office. There are pictures of the Rainbow Warrior on the wall, people on phones rush from room to room, journalists and cameramen walk in and out. There's a shout and we all crowd round the TV to...
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mommyerin blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
BOSTON—Members of the world's engineering and telecommunications communities admitted Tuesday that fiber optics, the supposed technological application that ostensibly allows light to carry signals across optical cables, is not actually a real thing. "Yeah, we sort of made that one up," renowned physicist Willard Boyle said of the fictitious technology around which a $40 billion-a-year...
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News On Women (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Powerful women were on display in October09, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, the first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize for economics, as well as Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine....
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WEBLOG DO FRAGA (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes Findings from Einstein study of healthy centenarians 13 nov 2009 - A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres – the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest...
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
It was a mystery: how does the chromosome replicate itself precisely during repeated cell divisions without degrading over time? Structures called telomeres (the "caps" on chromosome ends) seemed to provide some clues, but their exact function was poorly understood. The solution to the puzzle, which molecular biologist Carol Greider explained to Big Think this week, won her a share of this...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Nobel winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has set aside a part of his prize money for a cello. His son Raman is shopping for one and is likely to play it at the Sangat music festival.
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Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Adelson Institute: Next month, Professor Ada Yonath will be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, becoming the fifth Israeli scientist to win this award. This has sharpened, once again, the grim statistics regarding the scarcity of Nobel laureates in the Muslim and Arab worlds. While Jews, who are only around 0.2% of the world population, have [...]
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
From the Washington Post : " I bet he wasn't folding laundry." -- Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and her thoughts on learning of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
"I bet he wasn't folding laundry." – Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and her thoughts on learning of President Barack Obama's prize. Is there a woman around who read this quote and didn't smile with recognition? Greider's wry assessment encapsulates so much about the state of modern women: Nobel laureates,...
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Truthdig (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
“I bet he wasn’t folding laundry.” Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and her thoughts on learning of President Obama’s prize. READ THE WHOLE ITEM
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Indian-born scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the winner of Nobel Prize - 2009, on Monday said he 'did not mean' to sound miffed in his reactions to Indian fans' emails, which apparently clogged his e-mail box.
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Some of the chemistry that went into Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's grabbing the Nobel recently, could go back a long way to the 1960s when his parents launched a unique initiative in their sprawling home Gulab Baug in Vadodara called the Saturday Evening Club'.
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Accidental Blogger (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The Nobel Prize is awarded for extraordinary achievement, not for special wisdom or emotional maturity. One of this year's three Nobel laureates in chemistry is Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. Ramakrishnan is the seventh Indian born person to win this honor. Although he...
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Tzvee's Talmudic Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The science behind the Nobel Prize award to Israel's Weizmann Institute scientist Ada Yonath and the story of the winner are told brilliantly by the Jewish Standard of Teaneck's expert science correspondent Dr. Miryam Wahrman in this week's cover story.
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