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A man is driving down a country road, when he spots a sardar standingin the middle of a huge field of grass.He pulls the car over to theside of the road and notices that Santa is just standing there, doingnothing, looking at nothing.The man gets [...]
Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries, perhaps even finding a cure for HIV. A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory levels teach the rules, which are the same laws of physics by which protein strands curl and twist into three-dimensional shapes – key for biological mysteries ranging from Alzheimer's to vaccines. After about 20 minutes of training, people feel like they're playing a video game but are actually mouse-clicking in the name of medical science. The free program is at The game was developed by doctoral student
A man is driving down a country road, when he spots a sardar standing in the middle of a huge field of grass.He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that Santa is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the sardar and asks him, "Ah excuse me sir, but what are you doing?"Santa replies, "I'm trying to win a Nobel Prize.""How?" asks the man, puzzled."Well I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are out standing in their field."
Forget Al Gore, Nevada should be honored with the prestigious award for it's efforts to reduce fossil fuel emmissions and for producing renewable energy. Today I had the pleasure of attending an event, along with elected officials, including the Governor, to officially dedicate the new Nellis A.F.B. Solar PV System. It was so remarkable, I just had to write about it.Created through a public-private partnership, it's the largest solar power plant in North America. Southern Nevada is an obvious location for such an endeavor, given our relentless sunshine. The new 14.2 megawatt solar power system will produce more than 30 million kWh/year of clean power. It reduces CO2 emmissions by 24,000 tons annually, which is equivilant to planting 260,000 trees or removing 185,000 cars from the roadways. Great stuff.The best part is the fact that Nevada now produces the most solar power per capita in the country. Along with that distinction, we also are the largest producer of geothermal power per
The Nobel Laureates takes stage in Stockholm Concert Hall, today, the 10 December, in the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - as an annual event on the day of Alfred Nobel’s death.
There are more than 300 peace prizes in the world. One of the most well known and highly respected is the Nobel Peace Prize that started already in 1901. The prize is named after it’s Swedish creator Alfred Nobel.
The foundations for the prize were laid 1895 when he in his will left more than SEK 31 millions (approx. SEK 1,500 millions today) to be converted into a fund and invested in “safe securities.”
Here you can see the Table of Nobel prize amounts.
Who was he? He was born in Stockholm Sweden in 1833 and is the inventor of the dynamite and had 355 patents in several countries, as an entrepreneur he was unbeatable in his time. He seemed to have dedicated all his life to his inventions, even his brother were killed during the preparation of nitroglycerine.
How goes that together, he in
Albert Fert & Peter Grünberg received the Nobel Prize for Physics on the 9th October 2007. Both of the French and German physicist had discovered phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance" (GMR), in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences in electrical resistance.To make it easier to understand, the discovery that these two brilliant scientist made has made enables greater amounts of data to be packed into ever-smaller areas. This means, in the future, digital storage will be so small than you can imagine and have million zillion of bytes that can be stored inside it.Imagine in the future, we will have greater storage capacities more than we can imagine that we don't even know what to store inside it!!!More Info - BBC News
All that this much publicized awarding of the Nobel Prize to Al Gore has gotten is commendation for a person that has alarmed the world on the impending disaster which any single person can do if they really care for the environment. But seriously. Gore has been awarded the prize but what has it given the world? Just something to think about?
Perhaps if the prize was given for someone who had indeed done something already then maybe critics will not have something to say. Global warming is still an issue and while the warnings have been sent, nothing concrete has come about.
Sorry to ruin the party, but commendations and citations don’t stop the bleeding. Once solutions and results have been made, then perhaps that is the time to celebrate and lay claim to distinction.
Source: Al Gore’s Nobel Propaganda Prize
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I’m utterly speechless. And to think in anyone, even a Noble Prize winner could derive such an assumption in 2007… {read more}
The Call Me Panty holds that vibrating cellphone close {Definitely NSFW}
Everybody was feeling Kanye West’s performance at the 07′ BET Awards {watch it here}
The LAist interviews Neal Brennan, the other comedic genius behind the Chapelle Show. {read it here}
Dissecting objects and rebuilding them into a completely new image is what Manchester-based artist Michael England does to its utmost perfection. Ping-Mag takes a closer look… {read more}
Hellboy 2’s official website goes live, if you so chose to visit, head straight to the gallery section, you wont be disappointed {HellBoyMovie}
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Compared to the U.S. presidency, it might feel like a consolation prize.But take a bow, Al Gore. You have every right to bust your buttons over this shiny new Nobel.I know a thing or two about prizes. Like almost anyone who's worked in the news business for 15 minutes or more, I've won an armload of them. Hardly any are worth the brass, glass, crystal or wood they're made of.
The last week was full of good news regarding the Nobel Prize Awarding announcements for the most important contributes to the world in several areas, such as Nobel Laureates in Peace, Medicine, Physics and Literature. On the website of Swedish Foundation you can meet out with more details the winners of the Nobel Prize Awarding 2007 edition and understand with more detail which were the contributes of those that were chosen.Image:nobelprize
The Nobel peace Prize committee has been becoming more and more politicized over the years. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was erroneously reported as dead by a French newapaper in 1888. The newspaper printed a scathing obituary condemning him for inventing new ways to kill more people. This prompted Nobel to give the bulk of his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize committee to award prizes to individuals for achievements in the sciences and in promoting world peace. It is unfortunate that the Nobel Prize Committee has become so wrapped up in feel good liberal politics that it awards prizes to such 'notables' as Jimmy Carter, Yassar Arafat, Kofi Anan, the United Nations Peacekeepers and now Al Gore. And while such actions might play well to the lowest common denominator in liberal politics it only further increases the irrelevancy of the Nobel peace Prize in the eyes of many people. The only good I can see coming from this is that it has further emboldened supporters o
Former US Vice President — Al Gore JR.Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today along with a United Nations panel that monitors climate change for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to stop it.
News of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize was received [...]
Estoy por hacer algunos cambios y estoy buscando un templa te para el blog, si alguien tiene uno que me lo envié y podemos llegar a un acuerdo, debe tener tres columnas.Bueno hoy les comento de algo que anda dando vuelta se trata de spymac es un sitio de vídeos, en donde la persona que sube un vídeo puede ganar dinero, he estado leyendo y buscando información y llegue a un amigo Argentino el cual había ganado, eso lo hace para mi mas creíble.Spymac, funciona de forma igual que Youtube, solo le agregaría también es una mezcla de red social. Subes un vídeo y si tiene buena llegada con el publico ganaras dinero, me he inscrito pero aun no he subido ningún vídeo.Esta vez se me a ocurrido, a cada persona que se inscriba a través de este link, mandare todo el trafico de un dominio por 4 días.O sea si xxx se inscribe y su blog se llama www.xxx.blogspot.com pondré unos de mis dominiospor ejemplo... arsak.com, ipevac.com, malata.de, trabajoseneuropa.com, schife.com y muchos
The Ig Nobel Prizes are given to researchers whom took their time to research/document something scientific and quite useless in the same time. Their discovery is usually deemed totally useless. All in all they are a bit of laugh at this scientists. No i don’t mean this is not science but judge for yourself.
MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects.”
REFERENCE: “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects,” Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer, British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, vol. 333, pp. 1285-7.
PHYSICS: L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled.
REFERENCES: “Wrinkling of an Elastic Sheet Under Tension,” E. Cerda, K. Ravi-Chandar, L. Mahadevan, Nature, vol. 419, October 10, 2002, pp. 579-80.
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Poor old Yasser. Not only is he dead, and not only has the Palestinian Authority that he set up fallen apart, but they had the audacity to steal his nobel prize as well!The Hamas gunmen who broke into the Gaza house of late Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday, also stole his Nobel Peace Prize and his widow's evening gowns, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.So be on the lookout for masked armed men wearing evening frocks carrying a nobel prize. Listen to how seriously this is being treated by Fatah:"This is a real crime which was preceded by crimes of killing, slaughter and theft by the gangs of the Hamas militia and its executing force in the presidential headquarters in Gaza, as well as the execution of Fatah officers.Sorry, which is worse? Stealing the prize or killing and slaughtering? It is not clear to me (my Arabic grammar is not so good).In my opinion the real crime was giving him the prize in the first place and rewarding terror by calling it peace
From the Associated Press...Japan will hand out its first "Nobel Prize of Manga" this summer for artists in the comic book genre abroad, another step in its efforts to harness the power of pop culture diplomacy. The International Manga Award — which manga enthusiast Foreign Minister Taro Aso likened to a "Nobel Prize" when he first proposed it last year — will be given to an artist working abroad whose work best contributes to the spread of the manga form worldwide, the ministry said Tuesday in a statement. Manga, a name used for Japanese-syle comic books, often combine complex stories with drawing styles that differ from their overseas superhero counterparts, particularly in their frequent emphasis on cuteness. The winner and three runners-up will receive a certificate and trophy at an awards ceremony set for July 2, and will spend 10 days in Japan meeting with local comic book artists and publishers, the statement said. "Manga and anime have been spreading overseas and are sellin
Louis Ignarro, who won a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998, endorsed a diet supplement for the heart sold by Herbalife International Inc. in exchange for royalties and then touted the ingredients in a scientific journal, without disclosing his financial interest to the publication. Ignarro's consulting company received at least $1 million as its share of sales of Herbalife's Niteworks between June 2003 and September 2004, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The bottles sell for $90 each for a month's supply and display Dr. Ignarro's signature and Nobel Laureate status on the label."He's a paid consultant, so it should have been disclosed,'' said Marcia Angell, editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine in 1999 and 2000, now a senior lecturer on ethics at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "He had an interest in the substance he was evaluating.''Herbalife pays Ignarro's consulting firm - Hermosa Beach, California-based
Stocks: (WMT)(TGT)(BBY)If you are losing customers, cut costs and hope to make a profit on volume. It is a new and almost completely original theory of economics.After US same-store sales growth of just .5% in October, and a forecast of flat "growth" in November, Wal-Mart slashed prices. The first move in their chess game with competitors and consumers is to cut the sticker on 100 popular consumer electronics devices by 15% to 30%. One marvels that they could make money on the items.Of course, competitors like Target and Best Buy could cut prices as well. The stocks of several Wal-Mart rivals dropped after the announcement. Of course, by Christmas the retail landscape could look like the Battle of the Argonne Forest in the Fall of 1918.Wal-Mart's move is, in all probability, a zero sum game at best. And, it may be a contest in which all the players lose.Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at douglasamcintyre@247wallst.com. He does not own securities in companies that he writes abo
Ladies and Gentleman, it is official. The world record for "Cutest Baby Ever" has been broken, and the new record holder is here in our midst... The babies recieving honorable mention are pictured below.
RNA Inteference: The journal Nature is allowing open access to Nobel Prize Winners Andrew Fire's and Craig Mello's original paper:Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. Elegans)ANDREW FIRE (1), SIQUN XU (1), MARY K. MONTGOMERY (1), STEVEN A. KOSTAS (1)(2), SAMUEL E. DRIVER (3) and CRAIG C. MELLO (3)(1) Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland 21210, USA(2) Biology Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA(3) Program in Molecular Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Cancer Center, Two Biotech Suite 213, 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USAExperimental introduction of RNA into cells can be used in certain biological systems to interfere with the function of an endogenous gene 1,2. Such effects have been proposed to result from a simple anti-sense mechani
