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HEALTHY LIVING
U.S. Scientists Win Nobel Medicine Prize For Body Clock Research
By Niklas Pollard and Ben Hirschler, Reuters
Chronobiology delves into everything from jet lag to sleep problems to depression.
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SCIENCE
3 Americans Win Nobel Prize For Biological Clock Research
The scientists used fruit flies to unlock secrets of human biorhythms.
IMPACT
The Woman Behind the Nobel Peace Prize
By
Kathrine Aspaas
, Contributor
Author of the bestselling book The Age of Generosity. Economis...
Alfred Nobel had the money. Bertha von Suttner had the vision. Their union resulted in the Nobel Peace Prize, who continues to make a powerful impact on the world.
IMPACT
The Man Behind the Other Nobel Prize
By
Sunnie J. Groeneveld
, Contributor
Entrepreneur | Board Member | Author | Speaker
The mission of the "Alternative Nobel Prize" is "to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today."
POLITICS
Here Comes the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, Dragging a Broken Moral Compass
By
Norman Solomon
, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
The announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, set for October 11, is sure to make big news. The prize remains the most prestigious in the world. But the award has fallen into an evasive pattern, ignoring the USA's continuous "war on terror" and even giving it tacit support.
WORLDPOST
Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind The Prizes
SCIENCE
Radio, Dynamite & Avogadro's Number: This Week In Science History (PHOTOS)
July 9-15 will be a busy week in science history. This week sees the anniversary of a patent that changed the world—and that's
WOMEN
Alfred Nobel's Legacy To Women
On Saturday I was in Oslo with two of my sisters from Africa, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, to receive the Nobel Peace
POLITICS
Alfred Nobel's Last Will And Testament: He'd Be Proud Of President Obama's Peace Efforts
By
Jackson Williams
, Contributor
Austin-based writer
Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.
POLITICS
The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch
By
Bill Moyers
and
Michael Winship
, Contributors
The United States is the third largest stockpiler of land mines in the world, behind China and Russia. Like those two countries, we have refused to sign an agreement banning the manufacture, stockpiling and use of land mines.
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Obama, Nobel, and Realpolitik
By
Kate Southwood
, Contributor
Author of Falling to Earth
Is President Obama's lack of reference to Carter and Bunch surprising? Not really, considering his defense in Oslo of "just war."
POLITICS
I'm OK With It
By
Ralph D'Andrea
, Contributor
Founder of the Junction Daily Blog
My mind was on other things yesterday, but then Barack Obama threw me a curve by winning the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush.
POLITICS
The Norwegians Got It!
By
Lester Sloan
, Contributor
Writer/Photographer and professor of photojournalism at Savann...
While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.
POLITICS
Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
By
Bart Motes
, Contributor
Attorney
Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.
WORLDPOST
Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?
By
Hoyt Hilsman
, Contributor
Author, journalist and former Congressional candidate
This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.
WORLDPOST
Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?
By
Michael Russnow
, Contributor
Screenwriter; former member, WGAW Board of Directors; former U...
It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.
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