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  • BREAKING: Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines

    10/02/2023 3:15:47 AM PDT · by RandFan · 57 replies
    BBC ^ | Oct 2 | BBC
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Dr Katalin Kariko and Dr Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has now been given to millions of people around the world. The same mRNA technology is now being researched for other diseases, including cancer.
  • Thirty Nobel Winners to Gather in St Peter’s Square for Human Fraternity Event

    06/06/2023 6:27:09 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 10 replies
    Vatican News ^ | 6/5/23 | Tiziana Campisi
    The World Meeting on Human Fraternity, to be held in St Peter’s Square on the 10th June, will bring together artists, young people, charity workers, and Nobel peace prize winners from across the world.To make the word “fraternity” resound, worldwide, from St Peter's Square. This, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti explained on Monday morning during a press conference held in the Holy See Press Office, is the objective of 'Not Alone', the World Meeting on Human Fraternity that will be held in the Vatican on the 10th June, and in which Pope Francis will also take part. Inspired by the Pope’s encyclical...
  • French Nobel Prize winner Ernaux endorses inflation, climate protest against Macron

    10/09/2022 6:44:03 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 10 replies
    France24 ^ | October 9, 2022
    French author Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize this week, signed an open letter Sunday supporting a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron called by the country's left-wing opposition. Organisers of the demonstration on October 16 accuse Macron of failing to tackle soaring prices for energy and other essentials, and insufficient action against climate change. "Emmanuel Macron is seizing this inflation to widen the wealth gaps, and boost the profits of capital, at everyone else's expense," said the letter in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. "And this shock is allowing this government of the rich to open...
  • Swedish geneticist wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    10/03/2022 5:59:09 AM PDT · by billorites · 10 replies
    CBC News ^ | October 3, 2022
    This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo for his discoveries on human evolution. Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the winner Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Pääbo has spearheaded research comparing the genome of modern humans and our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, showing that there was mixing between the species. The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.2 million Cdn) and will be handed out to the winners on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by...
  • Nobel Prize-Winning Bishop Belo Accused of Sexual Abuse

    10/03/2022 6:15:13 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 5 replies
    The Pillar ^ | 9/28/22
    Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo of East Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996. Now he has been accused of sexually abusing several teenage boys.Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo of East Timor has been accused of sexually abusing several teenage boys, according to a report published Wednesday in a Dutch news magazine. Belo, 74, came to international attention in the 1990s for his outspoken role in opposing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which lasted from 1975 until 1999. The bishop was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for his work “towards a just and peaceful solution to...
  • Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies

    12/06/2021 10:54:02 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 11 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | December 6, 2021 | By JILL LAWLESS and SETH BORENSTEIN
    LONDON (AP) — Three 2021 Nobel Prize laureates said Monday that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world — yet they remain optimistic — as this year’s winners began receiving their awards at scaled-down local ceremonies adapted for pandemic times. For a second year, COVID-19 has scuttled the traditional formal banquet in Stockholm attended by winners of the prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and economics, which were announced in October. MacMillan, German physics prize winner Klaus Hasselmann and economics prize winner Guido Imbens, who is Dutch but lives in the United States, had a joint virtual news...
  • South Africa's last apartheid president F. W. de Klerk dies

    11/11/2021 3:24:01 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 7 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | 11/11/21 | Andrew Meldrum
    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the F.W. de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday. De Klerk was a controversial figure in South Africa where many blamed him for violence against Black South Africans and anti-apartheid activists during his time in power, while some whites saw his efforts...
  • Malala Yousafzai Marries

    11/10/2021 7:14:36 PM PST · by BeauBo · 7 replies
    NDTV (New Delhi, India) ^ | November 11, 2021 | NDTV
    Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Laureate and activist, married Asser Malik, a Pakistani Cricket Board official, in an intimate ceremony in the UK on Tuesday... Malala was 15 when she was shot in the head in 2012 in Pakistan by a member of the Taliban for defying a diktat banning girls from school. She was flown to the UK for treatment. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17, becoming the youngest winner.
  • OPINION - Nobel Committee refuses to honor Trump and Pompeo’s Abraham Accords

    10/31/2021 2:30:07 AM PDT · by blueplum · 7 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 30 October 2021 | Michael McKenna
    At the beginning of October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to two journalists — Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov — for “their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” The committee noted that “they are representatives of all journalists … in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions.” Fair enough. It is also fair to point out that it’s possible that part of the reason why the committee gave the award to a couple of reporters was to avoid...
  • Nobel Peace Prize 2021..FREE SPEECH

    10/08/2021 7:19:35 AM PDT · by Paul46360 · 9 replies
    Nobel Peace Prize ^ | October 8 2021
    The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.
  • Nobel in physics: Climate science breakthroughs earn prize

    10/05/2021 3:54:23 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 55 replies
    BBC News ^ | October 5, 2021
    Three scientists have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work to understand complex systems such as the Earth's climate. Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi were announced as the winners at an event in Stockholm. The work by Manabe and Hasselmann led to computer models of the Earth's climate that could predict how global warming would change the environment. The winners will share the prize money of 10 million krona (£842,611). It is very difficult to predict the long-term behaviour of complex physical systems such as our planet's climate. But computer models that can anticipate...
  • Invisibility cloak and quantum physics tipped for Nobel Prize

    10/05/2021 2:35:01 AM PDT · by blueplum · 2 replies
    AFP via MSN ^ | 04 October 2021 | AFP bur-hdy/po/jj
    Quantum physics, invisibility cloaks and a cutting-edge Italian theorist are all tipped to win Tuesday's Nobel Physics Prize, a year after it went to pioneering research on black holes. The prestigious honour, to be announced at 11:45 am (0945 GMT) in Stockholm, is the second Nobel of the season after the medicine prize on Monday went to a US duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. France's Alain Aspect has been mentioned for years as a potential laureate...Britain's John Pendry would delight physicists and Harry Potter fans alike with a Nobel for what...
  • Storm as Winston Churchill charity erases his first name from its website over controversy about 'aspects of his life' and his views on race that are 'widely seen as unacceptable'

    09/08/2021 10:28:28 PM PDT · by blueplum · 31 replies
    The Daily Mail UK ^ | 08 September 2021 | ELLIOT MULLIGAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
    A charity named after Winston Churchill has provoked fury by rebranding itself amid concerns over his views on race. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship. Volunteers at the trust said it was 'rewriting history'. One told The Sun: 'He was voted, by the people, as the Greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade. ... ...Controversies surrounding his rule include whether he could have acted more decisively to prevent the...
  • This year's Nobel Peace Prize draws hundreds of nominees

    03/01/2021 7:34:37 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 13 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 1, 2021 | By Gwladys Fouche
    OSLO - Some 329 nominations have been received for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, likely reflecting the profusion of pressing human rights issues around the world, the secretary of the committee which awards the prize said on Monday. Russia’s Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and Sweden’s Greta Thunberg are among those nominated for this year’s award. The COVAX programme to secure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries is also named, as is U.S. rights activist Stacey Abrams and Belarusian dissidents Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo. Reporters without Borders, the International Fact-Checking Network and the Committee...
  • Stacey Abrams Has Been Nominated For A Nobel Peace Prize

    02/01/2021 10:06:50 AM PST · by DoodleDawg · 61 replies
    HuffPo ^ | 2/1/21 | Jenna Amatulli
    Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, whose advocacy is credited with Georgia’s vote for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election and for both of the state’s new Democratic senators in last month’s runoff, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s Parliament, said in a statement Monday that he nominated Abrams because her “work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights.” “Abrams’ efforts to complete King’s work are crucial if the United States of America shall succeed in its...
  • Black Lives Matter Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

    01/30/2021 10:49:34 AM PST · by bobbo666 · 50 replies
    Gotta love this quote: "A study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which looked at 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations from four months of last year, found that 93 percent of the protests were mostly peaceful, yet photographs and videos captured by journalists across America depict a different image." So, I guess "mostly" has become as credible as a little bit pregnant? If someone "looked at" so many BLM/DNC sponsored riots and concluded this, I've an idea where their head was when looking.
  • Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize

    01/29/2021 10:58:37 AM PST · by NohSpinZone · 61 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 1/29/2021 | Martin Belam
    The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world. In his nomination papers, Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies. “I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality. Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice,” Eide said. “They have had a...
  • President Trump Receives Fourth Nomination For Nobel Peace Prize

    10/12/2020 9:09:25 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/12/2020 | Karen Townsend
    Is the fourth time the charm? President Trump has received a fourth nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize. The latest nomination falls into the 2021 award process. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded and though he was nominated three times, it was not presented to President Trump.The World Food Programme won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. The program received the award for fighting hunger as a “weapon of war”. Also cited was its “contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which presented the award in Oslo on Friday, also described the organization...
  • The U.N.’s World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize

    10/09/2020 2:56:00 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 38 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | October 9, 2020
    OSLO, Norway - The United Nations’ World Food Program on Friday won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The organization provided assistance to almost 100 million people in 88 countries around the world last year. “I think this is the first time in my life I’ve been without words,” WFP’s head David Beasley told The Associated Press from Niger. “I was just so shocked and surprised.” Beasley said he found out about the award from a WFP media officer who had just been informed by the AP. The Nobel...
  • Nobel Prize in Physics honors research on black holes

    10/06/2020 7:59:33 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 27 replies
    Physics Today ^ | 10/6/2020 | Heather Hill , Andrew Grant
    Roger Penrose’s theoretical work demonstrated the objects could form. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez independently discovered a supermassive one at the center of the Milky Way. Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez are to be awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theoretical and observational work on black holes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. Penrose will receive half the 10 million Swedish krona (roughly $1.1 million) prize; Ghez and Genzel will share the other half. Penrose, of the University of Oxford, helped place the previously idealized concept of a black hole on sound...