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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Leo Hickman: Brilliantly rapped spoof news report for YouTube channel TheJuiceMedia pits Al Gore against Lord Monkton in a war of words over climate change It's what the world has been waiting for. We've had the Rumble in the Jungle . And the Thriller in Manilla . But now – following years of trying to get it on – we're proud to bring you news of The Storming of the Warming. Finally, Al...
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Christianity-is-not-leftwing (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it [climate change] as the ‘new religion’.
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Chez Aspie - DJ Kirkby's blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Thank you so much to everyone who left a comment on the post below. The correct answers are in italics below and Marcus has kindly provided some additional detail in his answers for the questions that seemed to cause the most confusion. 1) If all the empty space were squeezed out of matter, the human race could fit in: a) Wembley Stadium? b) The area of the Isle of Wight? c) The volume of a sugar cube?...
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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’...
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MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Practically everyone, both left and right, considers awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize to be a joke. The late John Updike wrote that the Nobel Prize in Literature was a “prank.” But practically everyone still considers the Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences to be serious prizes, awarded to scientists with genuine accomplishments. Is this [...]
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The idea of a Nobel Prize for filth ' awarded for the advancement of disgust, rather than peace, literature or physics ' would alarm the Swedes. But India's minister for environment and forests lives and works in a less squeamish part of the world, where such things can be imagined with less effort. He has publicly declared that Indian cities would win the Nobel for filth hands down: "Our cities...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It's the question I've been asking myself since the University of East Anglia CRU emails surfaced last week. I don't have an answer despite having read about a third of the emails. For guidance I sought out a bongo player-slash-raconteur. Here's the musician riffing on science: "...It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It's a kind of scientific integrity,...
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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...
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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 [...]
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Libertyblog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Al Gore shows why he got a phony Nobel Prize for peace, not a real one for physics.
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Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Steven Sheets writes: I can’t really think of an area in physics where a consensus has been achieved only to be shown to be completely wrong. Good point. I know little about physics but I tend to agree. Work awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics is more trustworthy than work awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for [...]
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Renowned Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist Vitaly Ginzburg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, died in Moscow of chronic illness late Sunday at the age of 93. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Science (FIAN), where Ginzburg had worked as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, made the announcement. Born on Oct. 4, 1916, Ginzburg graduated from Moscow State...
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Universe Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, died yesterday of cardiac arrest. He was 93 years old. Ginzburg shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on superconductors, but contributed to many other fields of study, including quantum theory, astrophysics, radio-astronomy and diffusion of cosmic radiation in the Earth's atmosphere. In addition, [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Vitaly Ginzburg, one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and later a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist, died in Moscow on Sunday at the age of 93, The Associated Press reported.The Russian Academy of Sciences said on Monday that Ginzburg died late Sunday of cardiac arrest.Ginsburg and two other scientists won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for their contribution to theories on superconductivity.He...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Vitaly Ginzburg won 2003 Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for contribution to theories on superconductivity
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techzene | 10/09/2009
Charles K.Kao (Standard Telecommunication Laboratories) is awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres" For List of All winners.Visit @ Current Affairs
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/07/2009
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conducted the Nobel Prize ceremony every year in different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize is normally awarded for major contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands was the first to get Noble Prize in 1901
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switbd | 10/07/2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”, and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories,
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