RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
LOS ANGELES -- California, contrary to popular opinion, is not broke. It's only crazy, mean and at war with itself. You may have noticed that the governor and legislators of the Golden State finally produced a "balanced" budget with a deficit in double-digit billions. But, hey, who's counting? Yes, the greatest public university in the world, home to dozens of Nobel Prize winners, has become...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
If Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year with two others for mapping ribosomes at the atomic level, could not entertain the flurry of requests for an interview from the media after he won the ...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Since 1901 the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 90 times to 120 laureates but Iran holds the unique distinction of being the only regime to confiscate a winner’s medal. Aung San Sui Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, was unable to collect her prize in 1991 because she was under house arrest. The Soviet authorities refused to let Andrei Sakharov, the dissident nuclear physicist, collect his...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Happy Thanksgiving! Hopefully you brushed up on your health care talking points with yesterday's post and you feel well equipped to debate the pros and cons of the Affordable Health Care Act. Today, however, I am going to list ten things that every feminist can be thankful for based on what has happened so far in 2009. While every day there are setbacks and difficulties in achieving gender equality,...
SBVOR (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Quoting JoNova (I inserted the links & added emphasis): “The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s ‘based on science’, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names— ‘Denier’ , and by our Prime Minister, no less. This is supposed to pass for reasoned debate? […] It’s as if calling someone a ‘denier’...
The Curious Wavefunction (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
From the NYT As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent. In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are stuffed to the brim on the new reduced cleaning schedule....
American Presidents Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I admit it – when I was looking up the information for my last series of posts, I got distracted looking at other winners in all the fields (I had to find my personal favorite....actually not a US President, so if you are really curious, you'll have to check out my personal blog ), but I found a fun little connection to share, so hey, I can call it productive time! Marie Curie shared the 1903...
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are overflowing as administrators cut back on cleaners.
Scott's Web Log (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
About 2 weeks ago, I was in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area to attend the Diabetes Research Institute's Diabetes 2.0 Conference. I have attended several of their New York conferences in the past, but I had never been to their home-base in Florida before (ironic, considering my brother and sister both live nearby). Anyway, I was given a rare opportunity, along with some of my D-Blogging peers including...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry gave to Congress [...]
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
In groundbreaking research that will have serious ramifications for college students everywhere, scientists have discovered that eating a hearty bacon sandwich -- say, a tasty BLT -- really will cure a hangover. Researchers claim food also speeds up the metabolism helping the body get rid of the booze more quickly. Elin Roberts, of Newcastle University's Centre for Life said: "Food doesn't soak...
Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
U.S. Science Group Seeks Cooperation With Cuba By Jeff FranksNovember 11, 2009 HAVANA (Reuters) - A group led by the head of the United States' biggest science organization is in Cuba this week to discuss ways to rekindle scientific cooperation as U.S.-Cuba relations slowly improve under U.S. President Barack Obama. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Peter Agre, president of the American Association for...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Charting femtosecond energy flow could aid redesign of molecules to improve light captureUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.The researchers' study of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the structural changes...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
YouTube - Copenhagen: The Turning Point 1 of 5 Elizabeth May speaks about the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change 2009. The Urgency; denial and other problems; the atmospheric chemistry; global warming and greenhouse gases; Canada's not ready... China's big coal province disrupted by snow | Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of vehicles have been trapped on roads after two days of snow in China's...
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
5 Nov 2009, Raman Ramakrishnan , 33, a professional musician who plays the cello, is quite like his father and Nobel prize winner for chemistry, Venkatraman or ‘Venki’. Below is an excerpt from his interview with TNN. Q. Have you performed in India before, apart from the Sangat music festival? I have performed in New Delhi and [...]
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rekon | 10/08/2009
ndian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help develop new medicines in decreasing the sufferings of the humanity. Chemistry Nobel Prize 2009
rekon | 10/08/2009
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level,
krishpatel1212@gmail | 10/08/2009
Nobel Prize for Chemistry of Life | Nobel Chemistry Prize: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Cracking chemistry's mystery may be a hard nut for many, but for this trio, including two US citizens Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and an Israeli Ada E Yonath, playing with chemistry is merely a fun. For their acumen and expertise in chemistry, they have been awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The announcement
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