Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow 135
Nobel Prize season is here again, and the first award for Physiology or Medicine was split between two virologists who discovered HIV and one who demonstrated that a virus causes cervical cancer. Coming soon is the announcement for Physics. Look to the right for a chance to pit your selection wit against the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with a poll for which scientific achievement deserves the prize. Front runners, according to Reuters, are; Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, discovers of graphene, Vera Rubin, provider of the best evidence yet of dark matter, and Roger Penrose and Dan Shechtman, discoverers of Penrose tilings and quasicrystals.
Dr Farnsworth? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Anything but (Score:3, Funny)
Dark matter may be a cheap cop-out, but "Cowboy Neal's Excited State", that's just plain scary.
OH, boy - can't wait for the Peace Prize (Score:3, Funny)
I'm betting on Fidel Castro for the first peaceful transition in power in Cuba in 40 years.
Re:Anything but (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone but...Sau Lan Wu. I'm sure even now she's ensconced in her office, hovering over a small shrine decorated with J/psi and gluon Phys Rev articles, praying to the gods of physics that she'll win this year. /Former Wuon
How come these guys win awards? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, they've discovered hugely dangerous things through their "scientific" discoveries. HIV and HCV kill millions of people every year and these people are being praised for discovering them. Much like the lauded Newton who discovered gravity which has led to millions of deaths through falling and having heavy things land on people it is typical of the scientific community to reward these people who discover things that only give harm to people. These claims of "evolving" viruses are really just more proof that scientists are waging a war against normal people.
Only the other day I was hearing that scientists were poisoning our children by suggesting that di-Hydrogen Monoxide should be drunk instead of Sunny Delight, its appalling what we let these scientists get away with.
Brought to you by the people who think that Evolution is a scientific conspiracy.
Re:Anything but (Score:2, Funny)
I got your responsible particle(s) right here (makes a crude, vulgar gesture).... Oh wait, this isn't digg, is it
how about the nobel for economics this year? (Score:5, Funny)
please announce the nobel for economics this year, so we can tar and feather him, and set him afire as he protests that its like blaming the weatherman for a bad hurricane
maybe then the gods will be happy and we can get free houses and credit cards again