Stuffs about the Nobel prize I find interesting

So I realized I both here and on dreamwidth I used the tag: “nobel prize” a lot. The  Nobel prize is humanity when it's as best. Therefor to write about it is a way of being optimistic. Instead of being sad over all barbarians in the world I could celebrate that the Nobel prize prize went to I CAN www.icanw.org/. I could be happy about all the great things science has done for us. Let's be happy over the nobel prize winning writers that still are with us. Am I an expert on the Nobel prize? Well no, but, “dilettante of the world unite”. 

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Intresting

To go back to early december. Anne L'Huillier who got the nobel prize in physics is called the second French woman to get the nobel prize in physics after Marie Skłodowska* Curie. The thing is that wikipedia calls her “French-Swedish physicist”, so Anne L'Huillier should also be the first Swedish woman who got the prize? Sure if you know your science history, you know that the Austrian Swedish physicist Lise Meitner should have shared the prize in 1944 because of her hypothesis about nuclear fission. But apparently back in the days you couldn’t be a woman and get a scientific nobel prize unless your last name was Curie, that’s another story. The third story might be that Lise Meitner ended up in Stockholm when it seems like all other Jewish scientists from Central Europe emigrated to the US (largest brain gain in history?).

* According to a Polish Swedish guy I knew, Marie Skłodowska Curie was very keen on keeping her Polish name.

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“There is no contradiction between freedom and public health. Freedom is a requisite for good public health.”

Martin Kulldorff (Professor of Medicine )

“control your soul’s desire for freedom”

Apparently recorded message from Chinese drones during lockdown.

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The number of white people and south Asian people who has a finger on the nuclear bottom are now equal.

That's like the fact Margot Robbie almost is an anagram of Robert Mugabe, interesting but not useful.

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Just thinking. I had my formidable years during the 1990s. One thing one knew about international politics during the 90s was that if a brutal dictator did something the US didn’t like, they could get hit by precision attacks from the most lethal air force the world had ever seen. Now when Iran is putting terror weapons in the hands of Russia, would a 90s US send a reasonable number of tomahawk missiles against the Iranian factories producing “kamikaze drones”?

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Gender equity meets CRISPR

Navneet Matharu, Jenny Hamilton and Lin Du The Women in Enterprising Science Program (WIES) is located on the UC Berkeley campus and is supp

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Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion

Almost nobody has ever had such a profound impact on an era, while understanding so little about it.

"But in truth, all of Gorbachev’s most significant decisions, his most radical actions, were the ones he did not make. He did not order the East Germans to shoot at people crossing the Wall. He did not offer the Polish communists a bailout as their economy crashed. He did not launch a full-scale war to prevent the secession of the Baltic states, or to stop the Ukrainians from declaring independence, or to prevent Russia from electing its own leadership too. "

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So for fook sakes, Twitter have decided that "Denmarks CDC" is missleading

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Speaking as a Scandinavian sociala democrat, turning the pandemic into politics was a mistake by the US left.

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No, sure coffee is great, but it was America that invented mass produced cigarettes.

On the other hand breakfast might be too early in the morning for the porcelain pipes that used to be common in German speaking Europe.

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President von der Leyen visit wonded soldier