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Dear Friends, Nobel Prize for peace given to American President this day means that peace can be maintained by two methods first , Military and political . I think the prize receiver believes in the first one. Rajendra… Read More »
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While the world still debates whether President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was handed out prematurely, a curious thing happened: An American woman became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for economics.
AP/Elinor Ostrom
You'd think, certainly hope, that we've come to a point in time when hearing the first woman this and the first woman that had just about run its course. This isn't true, of course. Just ask Hillary Clinton, who had a good shot at becoming the first woman U.S. president before the Obama campaign took off in a big way. Still, when the Nobel prize for economics was announced today and we learned that Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political science professor, became the first woman to win the economics prize, it was kind of surprising that she was the first woman to win it, no? Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (10) | Blog
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It’s been a spectacular week for women in science, and a bad week for “the Larry Summers hypothesis." In 2005, while president of Harvard, he suggested that women are inherently worse than men at math, science and engineering, particularly at the highest levels. This week three women won Nobel prizes in science: two in medicine and one in chemistry.
That achievement should put the nail in the coffin of the question Summers raised: Can many women really be great scientists?
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I love Netflix . It's been Rex and my opportunity to introduce each other to shows we'd never watch on our own. Despite his "This isn't my thing" protests, he became a die hard fan of The Sopranos quicker than you can say Bada Bing. Same thing with Six Feet Under . The show was... Read More »
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