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Science is boring? Not during nobel week, when the recipients of the highest honors in chemistry, medicine and physics are announced. The 2006 winners were named last week, continuing a tradition begun in 1901, five years after Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel died, leaving $9 million and instructions to start annual prizes to honor achievements in those three scientific fields as well as in literature and peace. (Recipients of those awards will be announced this week, along with the winner in economics, a prize created in 1969.) The stories behind this year's science winners are particularly compelling...
...cure cancer or resolve global conflict, but a unique way to eliminate hiccups using latex gloves and K-Y jelly has proven Nobel-worthy. At the “16th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony,” Francis M. Fesmire ’81 won for his medical case report, “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.” Over 1,200 people gathered in Sanders Theater as genuine Nobel Laureates, Ig Nobel recipients, and other “ignitaries” participated in this year’s ceremony honoring achievements that...
...next Pope will be, what the next celebrity divorce will be, and whether there will ever be a female U.S. president. But each year odds players try to read the minds of a cryptically secretive, notoriously unpredictable group of people in Sweden who choose the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Each year speculation runs high as to who will be the recipient, and every year, the Nobel Prize Committee remains solid in its resolve to give no clues as to who will win. In fact, the names of the nominees are never released until 50 years after their nominations - it was only recently revealed that former President Dwight Eisenhower was nominated in 1955, according to the International Herald Tribune. But that doesn't stop speculators and bookmakers from making guesses and taking bets on the winners. On the contrary, for many the cloistered nature of the prize only makes...
...used to be less cautious. But there used to be more room for Iranians who advocated democracy, and more room for stories about their efforts. When I was asked to co-write the memoirs of Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel laureate and human rights defender, I didn't think twice. That was before the government banned her NGO, a clear sign they were not interested in putting up with her anymore. Now when she calls, I babble about my dogs, anxious to hang up. She's taught me a lot about what to do if I ever...