haha.nu (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Aren’t you momentarily stunned when your cab driver or your shuttle driver at Hertz or your local car dealership says something that really makes you think? Don’t you wonder how someone so smart ended up driving you around? Please, therefore, consider what it must be like to be Douglas Prasher. Prasher, or as he should be known, [...]
Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Douglas Prasher, who discovered the glowing jellyfish protein used in research that won a Nobel Prize, now drives a courtesy van for a car dealer in Huntsville, Ala. (Thanks to Alice.) I can’t improve on this title: you’ve got mail … and more. Inform others you have may given them a STD via email. (Link thanks [...]
Acronym Required (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Hundreds of Men The background story of almost every Nobel Prize awarded includes the biographies of one or more people who did lots of research but didn't get the prize. The New York Times published an article today about Douglas Prasher, who first cloned and sequenced Green Fluorescent Protein...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
From Norm Matloff’s H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter. Norm Matloff writes Some of you may have heard about this news item in the last few days: The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura and Roger Tsien for their work on the gene green fluorescent protein (GFP). Douglas Prasher, who played a key role by [...]
CNET News.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network The $8 an hour shuttle driver behind a Nobel Prize win -- Dr. Douglas Prasher, now an Alabama truck driver, is the real brains behind a US Nobel Prize win. Toshiba, SanDisk restructure flash memory venture -- Toshiba and SanDisk have signed an agreement to restructure ownership and funding at their two joint ventures producing NAND flash memory....
Cnet (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Dr. Douglas Prasher, now an Alabama truck driver, is the real brains behind a US Nobel Prize win.
