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...recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics and a “founding father” of the Kennedy School of Government, Thomas C. Schelling, received a warm homecoming at the Institute of Politics last night at a forum celebrating his achievements. Schelling, the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, earned the Nobel for his application of game theory to the economics of conflict and cooperation. Schelling addressed a crowd of approximately 400 students, friends, and faculty, touching on topics ranging from some of Schelling’s ground-breaking theories to their applications in the current conflict over...
...would free science from the trammels of communication that currently retard its process. Chris Surridge, PLoS ONE’s managing editor recently told the Associated Press, “If we publish a vast number of papers, some of which are mediocre and some of which are stellar, Nobel Prize-winning work—I will be happy.” And therein lies the problem. Without a peer review process to separate the revolutionary papers from the merely good from the rubbish, scientists will have no way of knowing which discoveries and experiments merit their time and interest...
...Cairo's Spinner of Tales The Arab world's most prominent literary figure, Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, died last month at age 94. TIME profiled the author in 1988 after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Consider Burma, a dictatorship for almost half a century now. Ordinary Burmese have long despised Thaksin as an enemy of democracy. He cozied up to the generals, and once famously described the detention of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as "reasonable enough." But ironically (tragically, really) ordinary Burmese who rejoice at Thaksin's departure will share a sentiment with their own oppressive rulers. Burma's generals will celebrate the Thai military's takeover, and the months of political deadlock that preceded it, because it proves what they've insisted all along: democracies don't work and civilians...
Shing-Tung Yau—who is the Graustein professor of mathematics and a winner of the 1982 Fields Medal, often considered the math equivalent of a Nobel Prize—is demanding an apology and retraction from the magazine for its Aug. 28 article, “Manifold Destiny,” penned by Columbia University journalism professor Sylvia Nasar and Rutgers University graduate student David Gruber...