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
Two years ago I noted that hundreds of blogs and websites mistakenly offer up the statistic that there are 10 or 11 Muslim Nobel Prize Laureates. Excluding the Nobel Peace Prize which does not reward intellectual achievement (after all, Yasser Arafat got one) I wrote that there were only three Muslims (out of 1.5 billion) who have won Nobel Prizes...
Birleşmiş Milletler Hükümetlerarası İklim Değişikliği Paneli (IPCC), Su Vakfı Başkanı Prof. Dr. Zekai Şen'e Nobel ödülü almalarındaki katkısından dolayı teşekkür sertifikası gönderdi.
The U.S. economy is already in recession — and may echo the 1930s, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz said Friday.
“The big question is: how will the government respond?” said Stiglitz, in an interview with CNBC. Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor and 2001 winner of the Nobel prize, detailed his bleak outlook for the American economy.
“This [...]
The U.S. economy is already in recession -- and may echo the 1930s, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz said Friday."The big question is: how will the government respond?" said Stiglitz, in an interview with CNBC. Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor and 2001 winner of the Nobel prize, detailed his bleak outlook for the American economy."This is going to be one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression," said Stiglitz. He explained that main cause of the current situation is historically unique -- and thus is befuddling those charged with creating solutions. Other downturns were primarily caused by excesses in inventories or inflation; but this slowdown is due to the condition of "badly impaired" banks and financial entities, which are unwilling and/or unable to lend capit
Este tipo de blogs son los que motivan que existan mas blogs serios y comprometidos, en este caso no es un personaje común y silvestre como casi muchos de nosotros sino se trata de un premio Nóbel, y desde ya hace muchas semanas me voy documentando más sobre este tipo de genios en la tierra. Les recomiendo que inviertan su tiempo en información valiosa en la Internet y por sobre todo que se lea este tipo de blogs.
En una nueva entrega de su blog para BBC Mundo, el Dr. Canziani plantea que es hora de decisiones en un dilema urgente: hambre vs transporte.
Navegue por el blog haciendo clic en este índice:
2.000 millones sufren hambre
Me inclino por la alimentación
Todo depende del precio del crudo
Biocombustibles: no tan verdes
Hora de decidir
En lo q
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."
Brittany, Alyssa, and I decided tonight while we were in our honors seminar (the subject of which is science this year) that we are going to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At first, we weren’t sure how we were going to do it, but I had a brilliant idea (because only brilliancy can win such [...]
In questo video il premio nobel Carlo Rubbia parla dell'università italiana e spiega come la circolazione di cervelli è utile, ma il guaio è che in Italia molti partono, ma non arriva nessuno.
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
Nobel Peace Prize Concert Draws A-List CrowdOslo, Norway was overflowing with celebrity presence as the Nobel Peace Prize concert got underway last night.Hosted by Kevin Spacey and Uma Thurman, this year's festivities centered around honoree Al Gore. And the former Vice President had quite the night of musical performances in his honor.Pop sensations like Alicia Keys, KT Tunstall, Annie Lennox, and Kylie Minogue all took the stage to add their own flavor to the night. And Gore showed his appreciation by applauding wildly after each song.At the end of the event, Gore addressed the crowd with the utmost enthusiasm with a message of hope. "Let's get on with it. We can do this," he said, referring to the necessary global steps to better the environment.
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
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue will perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert honoring this year's winners, former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change panel, organizers said Saturday. Minogue will join Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Juanes and Melissa Etheridge, who won an Academy Award for the song "I Need to Wake Up," featured in Gore's environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."The Dec. 11 concert will be hosted by Uma Thurman and Tommy Lee Jones and is to be held the day after the Nobel Peace Prize is presented in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The show will be broadcast in more than 100 countries, organizers said.Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to help spread awareness about man-made global warming.
José Saramago festeja hoje o seu 85º. aniversário. O nosso 2º. Prémio Nobel, primeiro da Literatura (foi galardoado com o prémio em 1988), nasceu na aldeia ribatejana de Azinhaga, concelho de Golegã, no dia 16 de Novembro de 1922. O que pode não saber é que o registo oficial menciona o dia 18 de Novembro.Também ganhou o Prémio Camões, o mais importante prémio literário da língua portuguesa.Como a poesia é um dos temas dominantes deste blog, reproduzimos em seguida um poema (faceta menos conhecida do autor) de José Saramago, «Nesta esquina do tempo»:Lírios cor de laranja(c) Tomo.Yun (http://www.yunphoto.net/es/)Nesta esquina do tempo é que te encontro,Ó nocturna ribeira de águas vivasOnde os lírios abertos adormecemA mordência das horas corrosivas.Entre as margens dos braços navegando,Os olhos nas estrelas do meu peito,Dobro a esquina do tempo que ressurgeDa corrente do corpo em que me deitoNa secreta matriz que te modela,Um peixe de cristal solta delíriosE co
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
"John Christy of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize) responds to questions by CNN anchor Miles O'Brien:
O'BRIEN: I assume you're not happy about sharing this award with Al Gore. You going to renounce it in some way?
CHRISTY: Well, as a scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, I always thought that -- I may sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas here -- that prizes were given for performance, and not for promotional activities.
And, when I look at the world, I see that the carbon dioxide rate is increasing, and energy demand, of course, is increasing. And that's because, without energy, life is brutal and short. So, I don't see very much effect in trying to scare people into not using energy, when it is the very basis of how we can live in our society.
O'BRIEN: So, what about the movie ["An Inconvenient Truth"]; do you take issue with, then, Dr. Christy?
CHRISTY: Well, there's any num
Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Literature Prize recently said the following:
”September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible,” the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.
“Some Americans will think I’m crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They’re a very naive people, or they pretend to be,” she said in an interview published Sunday.
We are either naive or pretend to be because why? Because September 11th had a profound effect on many of us? Because we tend to put an attack on our soil above what happened with the IRA in another country? Of course we are going to put precedence on an attack on us above attacks on other countries, if this make me naive, then I am guilty.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. About 3,700 died an
Talented singer and songwriter, Alicia Keys, will perform at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Norway. The concert, which will be held on Dec. 11, will also feature performances by Melissa Etheridge, Annie Lennox, Earth Wind & Fire reported the event’s organizers in an Associated Press article (courtesy of International Herald Times).
Caramel Bella Keys and the other artists will honor former Vice President Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. The award praises their efforts to spread awareness about man-made global warming.
Congratulations to Alicia Keys whose beautiful voice was chosen to celebrate this prestigious ceremony.
Congrats,
The Caramel Bella
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James Watson foi um dos responsáveis pela descoberta da estrutura do DNA. Esse feito rendeu a ele um Prêmio Nobel de Medicina, em 1962 e provavelmente um espaço no panteão dos maiores da ciência mundial - o DNA é tão importante que até substituiu a radiação como motivo de mutação de pessoas em obras de ficção.Ele podia, aos 79 anos, aposentar-se tranqüilo, certo?Que nada.Resolveu acender uma teoria que - graças aos céus - há muito tempo estava esquecida nos porões da ciência: a de que os negros são intelectualmente inferiores às outras raças.Em entrevista ao jornal britânico The Sunday Times, Watson afirmou que estava "pessimista sobre as possibilidades da África" porque "todas as nossas políticas são baseadas no fato de que a inteligência deles é a mesma que a nossa, quando todos os testes dizem que na verdade não é".Como? Que testes?Um dos indícios que ele usa para justificar o pensamento é repulsivo: disse que esperava que as pessoas fossem iguais, m
Juanes participará el 11 de diciembre junto a Melissa Etheridge, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Earth, Wind & Fire y TK Tunstall en un concierto que se celebra anualmente en Oslo para la entrega del Premio Nobel de la Paz, anunciaron hoy los organizadores.El Premio Nobel de la Paz fue otorgado este año a Al Gore, ex vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, y al Grupo Intergubernamental de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Calentamiento Global por sus esfuerzos en ayudar a despertar la conciencia sobre el cambio climático provocado por el hombre.
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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Dr. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for helping discover the structure of DNA, had his lecture canceled by a British Museum because he claimed that black people are not as intelligent as white people during a newspaper interview. This comment, and others during the interview, has brought out a lot of criticism after it was published in the Sunday Times.
Watson told the newspaper that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,” and that “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.” The lecture by Watson was supposed to be held at the London Science Museum, but after his comments during the newspaper interview, they canceled it, saying the comments had “gone beyond the point of acceptable debate.”
British Open University professor Steven Rose said, “He should recognize that statements of this sort have racist function and
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Daisaku Ikeda once said “We are dependent on the Earth, not the other way around. In our arrogance, we have flagrantly overlooked this. … The essential teaching of Buddhism is that the life of the Buddha resides in every plant and tree, even in the smallest dust mote: it is a philosophy of the utmost reverence for life.” (http://www.ikedaquotes.org/) With this in mind, I would like to thank former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement about the award, Gore said he was “deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize…We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.”
Many people may not realize this but Gore’s efforts to educate the world on the negative affects of global warming will have a lasting impact for generations. We MUST take care of our environment. We are one with
Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were chosen to share the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Protecting our environment is important and each one of us, including Al Gore can make small changes in our lifestyles to cut down on waste.
The Noble Peace Prize used to be awarded to those who strove for justice and peace. In 2006, Muhammed Yunus and Grameen Bank won for an innovative program for micro-credits in impoverished areas.
For the past ten years, there has been a largely political thrust to the Noble Peace Prize. But in all honesty, I stopped having any respect for it when it was awarded to Yassar Arafat in 1994 and Jimmy Carter in 2002.
Arafat never stopped embracing terror as was shown by the 2nd intifada. Jimmy Carter action's and books have led to unfair accusations against Israel while ignoring the terror tactics of Fatah and Hamas.
There were so many more appropriate candidates for this years Nobel Peace Prize. The Burma Monks come to mind. Their peace
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Perhaps Rush Limbaugh is so upset about Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize since he was also nominated for the award, as I reported in in February. The nomination was made by the Landmark Legal Foundation according to Landmark President Mark Levin for his for his “nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all humankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin.”
It’s hard to imagine anyone saying the above with a straight face about Limbaugh. Pensito Review believes that Limbaugh was behind his own nomination:
For starters, it appears that Limbaugh de facto nominated himself. The nomination went out under the letterhead of “his lawyers” at the Landmark foundation, a rightwing nonprofit for which Limbaugh is an unpaid adviser. (Landmark’s donors include relatives of Richard Melon Scaife, the Pittsburgh heir and newspaper publisher who funded the Arkansas Project, a smear campaign against the Cli
Galardoados são Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin e Roger Myerson ...O Prémio Nobel da Economia foi atribuído aos norte-americanos Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin e Roger Myerson, anunciou a Real Academia de Ciências da Suécia. A distinção destes economistas deve-se a terem "criado as bases da teoria do desenho de mecanismos", uma teoria que permite distinguir as situações em que os mercados funcionam bem, daquelas em que isso não acontece. "Permite aos economistas identificarem mecanismos eficientes de troca, quadros regulatórios e procedimentos de voto", refere a Academia.
El Premio Nobel de la Paz otorgado al ex vicepresidente estadounidense Al Gore y al panel de Científicos de la ONU sobre Calentamiento Global ha llevado al primer lugar de la agenda mundial las responsabilidades humanas en el cambio climático que afecta al planeta.
Ha caído como balde de agua fría en algunos países desarrollados, principalmente Estados Unidos, cuyo presidente George W. Bush se retiró del protocolo de Kyoto firmado por el propio Gore cuando era vicepresidente.
Oslo, Noruega - El pasado viernes, el ex-Vice Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Al Gore, fue anunciado como co-ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz por sus esfuerzos en combatir el calentamiento global de la Tierra. Después de ganar, perder, ganar, perder, ganar y finalmente tener que conceder la presidencia de los Estados Unidos a George W. Bush, el ex-Vice Presidente ha hecho de la lucha por el ambiente el norte de su vida. Este esfuerzo le ha ganado la credibilidad y el respeto del mundo: dos premios Óscar por su película, "Una Verdad Inconveniente", y ahora, el más grande honor que se puede conceder a una persona por su labor por la paz mundial. Por supuesto, el presidente George W. Bush estaba furioso al respecto.Al Gore: distinguido Ciudadano del Mundo, campeón de la lucha por salvar a nuestro planeta, ganador de dos Óscares, un Emmy, autor de un libro "best seller" y recipiente del premio Nobel de la Paz; todo eso después de que Bush le robara las elecciones; este cabrón n
Norwegian Nobel Committee Tries To Dodge CriticismAward Had Nothing To Do With Peace...Regarding Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize...Note: According to Wikipedia, The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: Nobelprisen), as designated in Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. A prize in economics in memory of Nobel was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968. They are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields of research, although the peace prize is also viewed as being politically motivated.The Norwegian Nobel Committee had to dodge some criticism both at home and from afar over the weekend, after it awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to former US Vice President Al Gore and the UN's panel on climate change.Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of political science and former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs specializing in security and defense, told newspaper Aftenposten that she
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I would like to welcome the distinguished Nobel panel, recent honorees
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American Airlines service depot, and of course Mrs. Arafat and her many
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specifically Hollywood itself.
It has been said and seconded
that temperatures are rising on Mars and Saturn, just as they are now
rising on planet dirt. While there may be complete truth to that, not
for one second ever doubt my willingness to forgo inconvenient
mathematical facts but instead transect the over-riding legal authority
which praise Buddhist temples every precinct may indeed now allow our
dear Red Army DNC campaign contributors to continue per their daily
construction of 1930's era coal-fired plants, as I continually blame
Bush for Chinese leaded toys, AIDS spas, the J
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.
Once again establishing itself as a near-solitary redoubt of opinion page sanity, the editors of the Wall Street Journal gave us a list of worthy nominees for next year's Nobel Peace Prize, all of whom would have made outstanding recipients for 2007. The list includes the Burmese monks who exemplify the power of non-violent social change in their protests against the ruling junta in Myanmar, as well as Columbian President Alvaro Uribe, Britiain's Tony Blair along with Ireland's Bertie Ahern, Russia's Garry Kasparov, Presidents Viktor Yushechenko and Mikheil Saakashvili of Ukraine and Georgia respectively, and the brave citizens of a nascent Iraq.It also includes many who have gone on to their eternal rest, such as the late Lebanese lawmakers Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem, Rafik Hariri, George Hawi and Gibran Tueni, all of whom met their demise at the hands of assassins as they struggled to free their country of Syria's chokehold. Each of these brave souls and many mo
Those who read intensively the news provided by the BLOGVASION can easily notice that there is no news without forthcoming consequences and continuations. News covered previously: Global Warming Effects and ways of informing Society is supported and enforced by the factual evidence. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are the joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The reason to which is increased interest and efforts to solve the problem of Global Warming by informing and educating society emphasizing the seriousness and importance of the problem resolution.The committee says: "Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the
Nobel Prize awarded for discovery in magnetic storage breakthrough made in 1970s The Nobel Prize is synonymous to many with developments and inventions that revolutionize a particular field. This year the Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to French scientist Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg. The pair won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics for their discovery of the phenomenon of “giant magnetoresistance,” or GMR. This phenomenon is where weak changes in magnetic resistance give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. This is one of the core principles that allows for the development of sensitive reading tools for retrieving magnetically sorted data in devices from computers to portable media players. The Nobel Foundation regards Fert and Grunberg's accomplishment as "one of the first major applications of nanotechnology." BBC News quotes Professor Ben Murdin of the University of Surrey, UK, as saying, “Without [giant magnetoresistance] yo
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
Por fin un estado unidense, a encontrado la gallina de los huevos de oro, se llama Al Gore, todo un personaje, que cuando era vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, no movio ni un solo dedo para que su pais reduciera, las emisiones de CO2, pero que no duda en avanderarse, como lider de la cruzada contra el cambio climático. Eso sí, al módico precio de 240.000 Euros, por conferencia, según afirma "...
Le prix Nobel récompense chaque années des personnes ayant fait progresser la recherche ou la société.
Et depuis 1991, il y le prix Ig Nobel, celui ci étant l’anti Nobel par excellence, car il récompense des personnes ayant accomplie des expériences "ne peuvent pas ou ne doivent pas être reproduits". En gros, il décerne un prix au "savant fou" pour leur recherche improbable ou loufoque.
Je ne vais pas vous énumérer tout les prix décernés depuis 1991, quoi que sa pourrait être drôle. Mais juste ceux de l’année 2007, ainsi que quelque uns d’année antérieur. Vous pouvez trouver la liste complète sur le site de wikipedia ou bien le site officiel des Ig Nobel.
Vous pourrez prendre note du prix Ig Nobel de la paix décerné à notre ancien président de la république Jacques Chirac en 1996.
Et enfin la conclusion à tous ça : Y en a qui se font vraiment chier dans la vie pour faire ce genre de recherche prenant plusieurs années ?
Pr
l Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on climate change just won the Nobel Al Gore has many admirers and critics, but on Friday the spotlight was on him again as the Nobel Peace Prize committee showered him with praise for his work promoting climate awareness and climate research.The Nobel Peace Prize was not the first award received by Al Gore, 59, for his environmental work, but it was certainly the largest. Al Gore had previously won an Oscar for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which was a surprising box office hit.Gore shares the Peace Prize with the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), found in 1988, which is widely considered by scientists and governments worldwide as the top authority on global warming and climate change.The IPCC has over 2,000 leading climate change scientists and experts that conduct research into climate change and collate data and information from research papers of thousands of other scientists w
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
I am not surprised to see that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, after things have been shaping up for him to clean up this year which he has done, in fact you could that he has really found his forte!
The man who used to be the next President of the United States has to share the $1.5 million prize with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there are some people who are slightly cynical about this award, and that he may use this to further his own political agenda and run for Presidency next year.
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The left just act like such a bunch of spoiled kids. And they wonder why we treat them that way. Plus this just proves my belief that the Nobel peace Prize is all about feel good politics rather than actually doing something for 'peace'. I mean come on, someone PLEASE tell me exactly what AlGore has done for peace??? ~RJH Riehl World View article link Can You Imagine Sorry to have to link this latest think pogrom silliness to make a point. Earlier today, after Al Gore was named a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Fox News kicked off the right-wing smear attacks on the former Vice President, comparing him to Yasser Arafat and that crazy Jimmy Carter. Aside from it being a perfectly insightful comment from whomever, TP, Media Matters et al are so over-doing this nonsense, they're all but marginalizing themselves. Aside from that, it represents a bunch of died in the wool libruls who spend every waking minute listening and watching things they obviously just don't like very m
El premio Nobel
Todos lo conocemos, y escuchamos cada año algunos nombres relacionados en distintas áreas de premiación, pero, ¿quién lo creó, cuáles son las categorías y cuál es su valor? Pocos saben estos interesantes datos.
Hay seis categorías que se reconocen cada año con el premio Nobel:- Paz- Química- Física- Medicina- Literatura- EconomíaLos premios fueron llamados así después de Alfred Nobel, el inventor de la dinamita, que creó los premios en su testamento. Donó una buena porción de su patrimonio para financiar los premios, decidió quién juzgaría a los ganadores y también nombró las cinco categorías de premiación (la económica fue agregada durante la década de 1960). Los premios Nobel son administrados por la Fundación Nobel y se entregan en otoño después de un riguroso proceso de selección. La lista de ganadores en las diferentes categorías (especialmente física y química) es como un "Hall de la fama". Por ejemplo, en físi
Al Gore ha vinto il Premio Nobel per la Pace "per l'impegno nel diffondere maggiore conoscenza sui cambiamenti climatici" e Pecoraro Scanio gli ha mandato una lettera per congratularsi e invitarlo in Italia.Adesso mettetevi comodi, prendetevi quindici minuti di tempo e leggete, se ancora non l'avete fatto, qui.Non aggiungo altro.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.read more | digg story
A congrats are in order for Former Vice President Al Gore as he has officially won the Nobel Peace Prize. Apple.com has decided to post an interesting congratulations on their front page as well.
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Los creadores del disco duro reciben el Nobel de Física. Se trata del francés Albert Fert y del Alemán Peter Grünberg, cuyos nombres no eran demasiado conocidos antes de ayer. Sin embargo, sus descubrimientos están ya en todos los ordenadores del mundo.Los dos científicos ganaron el martes el premio Nobel de Física 2007 por su trabajo con una tecnología que llevó a la miniaturización radical de los discos duros en dispositivos portátiles.Su descubrimiento de «la mangetorresistencia gigante» (GMR, por sus siglas en inglés), data del año 1988. Ambos investigadores lo hallaron de forma independiente, pero no fue hasta 1997 cuando se incorporó en los ordenadores. Lograron multiplicar por cien la capacidad de almacenamiento de los discos duros de los ordenadores y de soportes como cámaras de vídeo y equipos de música.
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been attributed to both Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore today.
"For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" said the spokesman of the Nobel Institute.
It's a good news and I hope it could make some changes in lots of not convinced minds all around the world.
As widely predicted, Al Gore has added the Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy Awards.
Former vice president Al Gore and a United Nations panel that monitors climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work educating the world about global warming and pressing for political action to control it.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee characterized Gore as “the single individual who has done most” to convince world governments and leaders that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and poses a grave threat. Gore has focused on the issue through books, promotional events and his Academy Award-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Gore joins other Americans who have won the prize, both as political leaders and for advocacy work:
Gore joins a short list of other senior U.S. political figures to be honored with the peace prize, including former president Jimmy Carter in 2002; then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 197
The Nobel Peace Prize has officially become meaningless. It was pretty ridiculous when Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin were nominated for the Prize, and Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter won. But now, apparently, the award is being given to the biggest failure in the History of the World: Al Gore.Al Gore, who rode the short bus to school, lost a Presidential election, and created a propaganda film that needs a warning label to protect students in Britain, has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Pathetically, Al Gore gets to share this award with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization where real scientists had to sue to get their names removed from the list of contributors because of its baseless conclusions. The “World’s Greatest Grandpa” has officially become a more prestigious award.The justification for giving the Prize to Al Gore was, "His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle
Today it was announced that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to The UN’s International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) jointly with Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton. This is the very same Al Gore who should have become the forty-third president of the US, had it not been for the disastrously bad partisan (5-4) vote by the Supreme Court in its 2000 decision to anoint the Presidency to whom historians now call “ The worst President in US history, George Walker Bush.
According to BBC News, “By choosing Al Gore and the IPCC for the award in 2007, the Nobel Committee have rightly brought to our attention that climate change is the single biggest threat to world peace we have ever faced.”
Mr. Gore has been a champion for bringing awareness of climate change with his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and numerous books over the years on the the importance of ecology.
The IPCC, a UN body whic
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Out of 181 candidates ex-presidential candidate Al Gore and the U.N. Climate Panel both are to share 1.5 million in prize money for winning the Nobel Peace Prize today.
Al Gore, 59, who was behind the documentary, The Inconvenient Truth, pretty much single handedly has brought massive attention and awareness to climate change, global warming, and green living.
Gore will go down in history as the founder of the green movement and now with wining a Nobel Peace Prize, he will be forever synonymous with climate change and progress. It is also worthwhile to note that he states he is going to be giving away a share of the 1.5 million dollar prize to an environmental org, the Alliance for Climate Protection.
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El exvicepresidente de Estados Unidos Al Gore y el Grupo Intergubernamental sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC) de la ONU, presidido por el indio Rajendra Pachauri, son los ganadores del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2007, anunció el Comité Nobel en Oslo.En su argumentación, el Comité Nobel destacó los esfuerzos de los galardonados por "construir y divulgar un mayor conocimiento sobre el cambio climático causado por el hombre y por fijar la base de las medidas que son necesarias para contrarrestar ese cambio".El indio Rajendra Pachauri, presidente del Grupo de la ONU sobre el cambio climático y el ex vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos, Al Gore.El anuncio no sorprendió, puesto que Gore y el IPCC figuraban entre los favoritos.El año pasado, el Comité Nobel distinguió también el trabajo comprometido de una persona y un organismo, en aquel caso fue el del bangladeshí Mohamed Yunus, conocido como el "banquero de los pobres", y su banco, el Grameen Bank. Ver más... fuente|Esmas.com
The British novelist, Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, announced yesterday. She is 87 years old at present, just weeks short of her 88th birthday. She is best known for her novel, ‘The Golden Notebook’, written in 1962. The academy that conferred most coveted prize on her called her an “epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.” The announcement of the prize was made by Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 11 October 2007.She debuted as a novelist with ‘The Grass is Singing’ in 1950. Recently she produced novels like ‘The Good Terrorist’ (1985) that was a satire on romantic politics. In 1988, she wrote ‘The Fifth Child’ (1988) – it was about the tragedy of a family by an antisocial and violent child. Her latest ‘The Cleft’ is a science fiction.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay [...]
El ex vicepresidente de EE.UU. y el Panel sobre Cambio Climático de la ONU ganaron el premio por sus esfuerzos para alertar sobre el cambio climático.
El ex vicepresidente estadounidense Al Gore y el Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático de la ONU ganaron hoy el premio Nobel de la Paz 2007 por sus esfuerzos para alertar sobre el cambio climático mundial causado por el hombre y por sentar las bases para evitarlo.
“Su fuerte compromiso, reflejado en su actividad política, sus conferencias, películas y libros, reforzaron la lucha contra el cambio climático”, dijo el comité Nobel de Gore, que este año ganó un premio Oscar a su documental sobre cambio climático “Una Verdad Inconveniente” y que era una de los favoritos a llevarse el Nobel.
Elogios. “Probablemente sea el individuo que más hizo para crear un entendimiento mundial de las medidas que necesitan ser adoptadas”, agregó el comité Nobel de Noruega, al anunciar el galardón
Il nove luglio avevo scritto che non sapevo cosa c'era dietro la terza via di Al Gore.Ora me ne sto facendo una idea. Notizia di poco fa che Al Gore ha vinto il premio Nobel per la pace (qui sul Corriere); inoltre sembra che lo stiano spingendo a candidarsi per le presidenziali 2008 (qui il sito della campanga DraftGore).Maxp.s. il Corriere di oggi riporta l'interessante tesi di Sally Bedel Smith (espressa nel suo ultimo libro: "For Love of Politics - Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years") secondo cui ci sia un pò di ruggine fra Al e Hillary perchè quest'ultima si accapparrò i fondi democratici che mancarono ad Al per vincere le elezioni presidenziali del 2000
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 [...]
La escritora británica de origen iraní ha ganado el Nobel de Literatura. En breves palabras el jurado encargado de otorgar el prestigioso galardón, la novelista británica encarna "la narradora épica de la experiencia femenina, quien con escepticismo, ardor y poder visionario ha sometido a escrutinio a una civilización dividida".
El premio Nobel de Literatura, dotado con 10 millones de coronas
Lido assim, até fazia crer que iria dizer alguma coisa sobre a obra da dita escritora. Na verdade, depois de ler o Pedro Mexia - que curiosamente não é médico -, não consegui deixar de esboçar um sorriso por apenas ter um livro da escritora em causa e de nem sequer ter conseguido acabar de o ler.
Economists make a living by forecasting, and they sem to be all tied up in knots over who is going to be awarded the Nobel economics prize. Reuters reports that the problem is that Panel members often want to know if a theory works and they are willing to wait years, or decades, to find out. According to Tim Harford, columnist and author of "The Underground Economist", "We really have to see
Seran premiados el Francés Albert Fert y el Alemán Meter Grünberg
Fue por su descubriento de la magnetoresistencia gigante, que ha permitido el desarrollo de lectores de discos rigidos y una reducción tremenda en su tamaño.
El premio, además del reconocimiento, consta de una cifra de 10 millones de coronas suecas, algo asi como 1,5 millones de dolares.
Este hallazgo fue posible por una investigación en el campo de la condensacion fisica de la materia, en 1988, y ya fue premiado por la Sociedad Americana de Fisica en 1994.
Ahora se lo reconoce como el premio más importante a nivel mundial y sera entregado junto al resto de los galardones el 10 de diciembre, en conmemoración del fallecimiento de Alfred Nobel.
Gerhard Ertl Estocolmo, (PL) El científico alemán Gerhard Ertl, honrado hoy con el Premio Nobel en Química 2007, creó toda una nueva especialidad que brinda explicación a procesos fundamentales que ocurren en superficies sólidas. Ertl nació el 10 de octubre de 1936 en la localidad alemana de Bad Cannstadt, cercana a Stuttgart. En 1961 se tituló en la Universidad Técnica de esa ciudad, donde en 1965 obtuvo un doctorado en química-física. Ha sido docente en las universidades de Hannover y Múnich, en Alemania, así como en las de Wisconsin y California, Estados Unidos. Es Doctor Honoris causa de las universidades de Munster, Aarhus, Goteborg y Leuven, así como profesor honorífico de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín. Por sus aportes a la química de superficies Ertl ha recibido la Medalla de Oro de la Sociedad Química Eslovaca, y el prestigioso premio Wolf, que concede la Fundación israelí Wolf. También posee el premio de Eurofísica Hewlett-Packard de la Soc
Estocolmo, (PL) El francés Albert Fert obtuvo hoy de forma compartida el premio Nobel de Física por el descubrimiento de la magnetoresistencia gigante, cuya aplicación permitió dar un salto en los procesos informáticos de compactación de información. El científico nació en 1938 en Carcassone, Francia. Se graduó en la Universidad de Paris, y en 1970 recibió el título de Doctor en la Universidad de París Sur. Laboró como profesor asistente en las Universidades de Grenoble y París Sur, donde trabaja desde 1976 como docente de Física. Es además director científico en la unidad mixta de Física en Orsay. Entre sus contribuciones resalta el descubrimiento de la magnetorresistencia gigante en 1988, por lo cual obtuvo en 1994 el Premio Internacional para Nuevos Materiales otorgado por la Sociedad Americana de Física. Cuenta con más de 270 publicaciones y una de estas, Physical Review Letters, se encuentra entre las 10 más citadas por otros autores. En 2003 fue merec
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Debemos agradecer al francés Albert Fert y al alemán Peter Grüenberg por permitirnos poner discos duros en nuestros pequeñísimos reproductores portátiles. Con la tecnología conocida como magnetorresistencia gigante, se pudo lograr que "débiles cambios magnéticos generen grandes cambios en la resistencia eléctrica", que nos permiten almacenar información en discos duros que puede ser "convertida en señales eléctricas". Estos inteligentísimos científicos recibirán un premio compartido de 1,5 millones de dólares, y nuestro más sincero agradecimiento por permitirnos llevar absolutamente todas nuestras canciones a donde vayamos.
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O Prêmio Nobel de Física foi concedido este ano para o francês Albert Fert e o alemão Peter Grünberg, cujas pesquisas revolucionaram o mundo da informática ao encontrar a chave que permitiu aumentar a capacidade de armazenamento dos discos rígidos (HD) e, assim, minimizar o tamanho desse hardware.
A Real Academia de Ciências Sueca decidiu premiar os trabalhos dos cientistas europeus por sua descoberta da magnetorresistência gigante (GMR, em inglês), a tecnologia utilizada na leitura dos dados dos HDs.
Em 1988, os dois especialistas descobriram separadamente um efeito fisicamente totalmente desconhecido até então, a GMR.
Em um sistema como a GMR, é possível obter uma redução de até 100% na resistência às correntes elétricas. Esse mecanismo se transforma no instrumento idôneo quando se trata de transformar em corrente elétrica a informação registrada de forma magnética.
O físico Fert nasceu em 1938 em Carcassone, na França, e atualmente trabalha como diretor d
(ANSA)-STOCCOLMA, 8 OTT- Il Nobel per la medicina e' stato assegnato all'americano di origine italiana Mario Capecchi e ai britannici Oliver Smithies e Martin Evans. La squadra e' stata premiata per il lavoro di ricerca sulle cellule staminali.Capecchi si e' guadagnato il Nobel per essere stato il primo a creare topi geneticamente modificati, utilizzati nei laboratori di tutto il mondo e cruciali per riprodurre malattie umane in modo da studiarle in dettaglio, o ancora per sperimentare l'efficacia di nuovi farmaci.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning. The prize was awarded to three men for a series of discoveries regarding embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals that led to the creation of a technique for manipulating mouse genes called gene targeting. Today, the technology is being applied to virtually all areas of biomedicine.
The three men, Mario R. Capecchi, age 70, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Sir Martin J. Evans, age 66, at Cardiff University in Wales and Oliver Smithies, age 82, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, will share the 1.54 million prize.
Gene targeting allows researchers to inactivate or modify specific genes in the germline of mice and to raise offspring that express the modified gene. This lets them study how those genes affect health and disease. The technique is often used to inactive or “knockout” single genes in order to identify its role in development, physiology and disease.
Here is a list of 2007 winners of Ig Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October — around the time the recipients of the genuine...
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