It’s time for the priesthood to be taken to task – and journalists aren’t up to the job ‘Come back and take your MMR jabs, you bloody peasants.’ Image: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, via Wikimedia Commons – –… Read More ›
Nobel Prize
Stiglitz: Greece and Spain are ‘in depression’ : Blaming it on tough austerity measures
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, October 17, 2012 16:17 EDT Topics: international monetary fund ♦ joseph stiglitz ♦ spain Greece and Spain are in “depression, not recession”, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday, blaming tough austerity measures for their… Read More ›
China scrambles to censor novelist Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize
A leaked directive from the Chinese government shows censorship tactics towards dissidents. Benjamin CarlsonOctober 16, 2012 09:08 Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize win draws attention to the Chinese government’s censorship tactics. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) What do you think? HONG KONG —… Read More ›
Japanese scientists win spoof Ig Nobel award for ‘SpeechJammer’
Engineering Evil: If anyone gets a video of the speech Jammer at work…Please link in comments…Seems like a little ADD get the best of the AP. Two Japanese researchers won the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the… Read More ›
This year’s Ig Nobel awards: Researchers monitor a dead salmon’s ‘brain activity’
Topics: eiffel tower ♦ Nobel prizes When a team of scientists decided to work out the complex mathematics that control the shape and movement of a human ponytail, they had not set their sights on fame or glory. On Thursday,… Read More ›
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