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Announcing: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011

By medser on  From medicinezine.com
Announcing: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann “for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity” and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity” .  __________________________________________________________     Bruce A. Beutler              Jules A. Hoffmann...Read Full Story

Ig Nobel Prizes for Quirky and Strange Scientific Achievements

By simpy99 on  From oddstuffmagazine.com
The winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize received their awards recently.The Ig Nobel Prizes are given out in ten fields for quirky and strange scientific achievements and are considered to be a satirical take on the prestigious Noble Prize. The Medicine Prize went to Mirjam Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop and jointly to Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder and Robert Feldman, Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, and Paul Maruff for demonstrating that people make better decisions about some kinds of things...Read Full Story

Ig Nobel Prizes for Quirky and Strange Scientific Achievements

By simpy99 on  From oddstuffmagazine.com
The winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize received their awards recently.The Ig Nobel Prizes are given out in ten fields for quirky and strange scientific achievements and are considered to be a satirical take on the prestigious Noble Prize. The Medicine Prize went to Mirjam Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop and jointly to Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder and Robert Feldman, Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, and Paul Maruff for demonstrating that people make better decisions about some kinds of things...Read Full Story

Professor Wins Ig Nobel Prize For Beer, Sex Research

By altonparrish3 on  From nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com
It was a case of a besotted male and beer. Love-sick and lonely, the male girded his loins and took immediate action to relieve his unhappiness – but with a surprising outcome, as a U of T Mississauga professor discovered. A male Australian jewel beetle attempts to mate with a "stubby" beer bottle. Credit: Darryl Gwynne The male in question, an Australian jewel beetle (Julodimorpha bakewelli), became so enamored with a brown "stubby" beer bottle that he tried to mate with it – so...Read Full Story

Cause And Effect In Macroeconomy Research Wins Nobel Prize In Economics

By altonparrish3 on  From nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com
Hoover Institution economist  Thomas J. Sargent , a leader in the field of macroeconomics and the rational expectations revolution, was named a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Sargent shared the prize, including the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) cash award, with American Christopher A. Sims, of Princeton University, "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." Thomas Sargent Courtesy of NYU Sargent, 68, is a professor at New...Read Full Story
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