The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
She won the Nobel prize for literature a month ago, but this short book is currently the only novel by Herta Müller available first-hand in English (Granta will be reissuing The Land of Green Plums soon). Set in a stagnant Romanian village under Ceausescu's dictatorship, it tells of a miller's desperate attempt to secure a passport to West Germany. Müller's sentences are short and plain...
Radaractive (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A song by the Beach Boys? Yep. A snapshot of America? Yep. We are at war against Islamofascists and also against anti-American socialists who wish to remake the nation. I don't want to see a reinstitution of the Soviet Union nor do I intend to live by Sharia Law!!! Hero - the guy who posted the Shrimp Taco sign, Bob McCarthy, on the internet . "After President Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize...
Thoughts About K4D (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Former NAS President Bruce Alberts, former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, and Nobel prize-winning chemist Ahmed Zewail have been appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve as science envoys to Muslim majority countries. The envoys will travel to North Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia "to fulfill President Obama’s mandate to foster scientific and technological...
The Lippard Blog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The 2009 Hogan and Hartson Jurimetrics Lecture in honor of Lee Loevinger was given on the afternoon of November 5 at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law by Robert B. Laughlin. Laughlin, the Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Horst L. Stormer and Daniel C. Tsui), spoke about his recent...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Trawling through the BBC News website I came across this story of a Korean woman that has passed her driving test after just 950 attempts! Now that shows remarkable persistence and I don't know whether I'd have carried on after so many failures. Your Saturday questions are: - Who was the only US President to be elected for a 4th term today in 1944? In which country was double Nobel Prize winner Marie...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week’s announcement of $3.4 billion in stimulus funds for utilities was big news for smart meter makers. Almost every recipient of the money said they would be using it to add millions of advanced meters to their coverage areas. Now major meter maker Landis+Gyr has proved that the government grants will stimulate private investing in the sector, raising a new $100 million from its current...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication Date: October 13, 2009 ISBN: 978-0061479014 784 Pages (Paperback) Nonfiction Summary (from the publisher): The thrilling cold war masterwork by the nobel prize winner, published in full for the first time Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian...
Country Boys Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wastebasket Vol. XIV No. 41: Gimmick Comes Home to Roost about : contact : TCS home : donate Popping the Hydrogen Hoopla Balloon Volume XIV No. 45: November 6, 2009 Congress snuck a Halloween budget trick into the energy spending bill President Obama signed last week. Well, actually it was a $100 million treat for the hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) research and development (R&D) program that the President...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
By guruek. Edmund Phelps, professor of economics at Columbia University and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics, talks with Bloomberg's about the outlook for the U.S. economy. Phelps says an economic upturn is coming pretty quick but that the recovery will run out of gas with unemployment at 6 percent to 7.5 percent. Read more » »
What's on in Barcelona (Free subscription) | yesterday
6. Climb up the magical Montjuïic Montjuïic is perfect for a leafy stroll with great views, but hard to reach so i s less populated by tourists. Scattered across the landward side are buildings from the 1992 Olympic Games, including Santiago Calatrava's Olympic needle, while facing the sea is the lighthouse and vast cemetery. The Castell de Montjuïc was the burial place for the medieval...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stunningly bad news on the nation’s jobless rate today: Unemployment worsened in October to 10.2 percent, a huge jump from 9.8 percent in September. That’s 15.7 million jobless workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Worse, the unemployment and underemployment rate is a shocking 17.5 percent -more than 27 million American workers without full-time jobs. The construction,...
Healthcare Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz have a nice list of the Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper. However, these tips can be used for almost any type of non-fiction writing. Some of my favorites include: Rule #1: You will probably not have a Nobel Prize winning idea. Theorem #1: It is always [...]
Tech Central Station (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Should there be a Nobel Prize for creating happiness? Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz may think so. But Nobel or not, it's hard to escape the conclusion this is high-flying nonsense.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Considered one of 20th-century Spain's most distinguished intellectuals, Mr. Ayala was routinely mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides being a novelist, he was a poet, critic, essayist, lawyer and academic sociologist. Much of his work was banned in Spain during the Franco era."...
Journey is the Reward (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I had wanted to read the The Double Helix since forever. I knew the DNA story, and in some detail too, but learning it from the horse's mouth is always a different deal. And it did not disappoint. It's the chronicle of the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick in 1953 (which in turn led to a Nobel prize in 1962), by Watson himself. The things that stand out immediately are his honesty...
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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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