3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Alfred Nobel possessed an inventive mind. He created a substance capable of alleviating backbreaking drudgery for tens of thousands of physical laborers. The substance Nobel invented could instantaneously carve out mines, cut canals, and prepare the ground for roads and...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... nature of this ambiguity. Behavior may not reflect intention. The invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel was not intended to garnish forth the murder of thousands in war. Creative outcomes may be used for great harm or great service and it is not necessarily the outcome intended by those creating. My projection that those on my 'dislike' list are self-absorbed rather than passion-seeking...
Mortgage News Clips (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Professor Harry Markowitz shared the 1990 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with two other financial economists. As The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in their Oct 1990 press release: “The first pioneering contribution in the field [...]
Three Bits o Trivia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
The cast of the 1987 film "Predator" featured two future state governors: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura. Sonny Landham, who recently ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Kentucky, was also in the film. George Bernard Shaw refused to accept his Nobel...
