Nobel Prizes

PHOTOS: This Year's Nobel Prize Winners

Posted 12.10.2011

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Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won this year's Nobel Prize for Economics, the Nobel Committee announced on Monday in Oslo. Sargent a...

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Who Is This Nobel Prize Frontrunner?

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.04.2011

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While a number of American dark horses appear on potential contenders for this year's Nobel Prize For Literature list, from DeLillo to Bob Dylan, the ...

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Does Salman Rushdie Deserve A Nobel Prize?

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2011

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Anis Shivani

I don't expect for a moment for this to happen, but I believe no other writer on the face of the earth comes as close to deserving the next Nobel award for literature as Salman Rushdie.

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David Moye

WATCH: Why Do Fruit Bats Have Oral Sex? Ig Nobel Prize Celebrates 20 Years Of Weird Academic Research

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.27.2011

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Scientists who make discoveries that have lasting value to humanity get awarded with Nobel prizes. That doesn't happen to those who figure out that...

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Jewish Exceptionalism -- A Response to Michael Chabon

Steven L. Pease | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jews have won 23 percent of all Nobel prizes, 51 percent of the Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction and 54 percent of the world chess championships. They...

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China Dissidents Top Nobel Peace Prize Speculation

AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 05.25.2011

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OSLO — Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

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Nobel Prizes 2009: A Record Year For Women

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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AP -- This year a record five women were honored by the Nobel committees. In total, only 40 women have won the prestigious prizes, including Marie Cur...

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Nobel Prize For Economics: Americans Ostrom, Williamson Win

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA, KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — One scholar studies how best to manage resources like forests, fisheries and oilfields. A fellow American looks at why some compani...

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