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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    10/13/09

    In reply to Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
    I guess you didn't read the story about the first woman to win a Nobel in economics, given your headline.
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    10/11/09

    In reply to Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
    American, British...it doesn't mean anything. That doesn't describe who a person is. Well, nationalities do mean something, but I'm just trying to point out that I don't care what country wins the nobel prize, as long as great accomplishments are made. My country suits me fine, but I'm not 'american' any more than somebody is canadian or british. We should do away with all these silly nationalism feelings, and just form a world order already. Prepare for the alien invasion. Now i think i'm really off topic.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    10/11/09

    In reply to Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
    This says something interesting about corporate funding for research as well. Two of the Physics winners this year are former Bell Labs researchers. The award was for work in CCDs that they had done decades earlier while at the Labs. As a former Bell Labs person (but definitely more on the product development side of the house), it's hard for me to imagine Bell Labs as it exists in its much greatly diminished capacity today ever winning a Nobel Prize. Corporate funding for bleeding edge research with high risk but potential huge long term payoff has definitely decayed in favor of short term work that is immediately customer facing. I sometimes wonder if anything as economically significant as, say, the cellular phone, which Motorola developed despite critics saying it was a complete waste of money, will ever happen again.
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    10/11/09

    In reply to Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
    The government won't give more funding to necessary research for the same reason that we can't fund public health care- some old white Republican will call it "socialist."
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    10/13/09

    @Post-Nuked:
    Or, they didn't fail economics like you did, and realized that printing money and running up debt during an economic downturn is a really, really bad idea. But hey, if the only "conservative" you can think of is Glenn Beck, I could see where your confusion might come from.
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    10/15/09

    @Cash907Censored:
    The only point that I was trying to make was that many research scientists and the millions of under and uninsured people in the country have something in common: They both have to deal with a government that thinks that they are too expensive. #nobelprize
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    10/11/09

    In reply to Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
    Obama winning that complete BS !!! You must do something before earning such an award .
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    10/11/09

    @disatess: Henry Kissinger agrees.
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    10/11/09

    @disatess: agree, when i 1st heard i was like WTF.
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    10/11/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Yup - screw up a whole country fighting the red menace.

    @disatess - have you read the Nobel committee's statement at all?

    Basically, he gets the award for encouraging dialogue with rogue states; engaging with the UN; reducing the number of nuclear weapons (or how else can you expect aspiring nuclear nations to stop?) and not being an isolationist/neo-imperialist stooge like Bush.
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    10/11/09

    @disatess: You're a few days late for your misguided anger. Without naming any other US President who won and without checking Wikipedia, can you name more than two people who have won the award in the past?
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    10/11/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: wow thats it . so he didn`t stop any wars , start peace talks .
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    10/11/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: He did all that in the two weeks he was in office before being nominated.. wow. Missed that. (also, hasnt eliminated a single nuke yet)
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/11/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: I think it was even less than that. Nobel nominations were due in early February. He had been president for less than 2 weeks and elected fro only 3 months when he was nominated. This is an example of the Europeans saying "Thank god that Bush guy is gone." They awarded the prize based on potential and the idea of Obama, not actual accomplishments. I voted for the guy, I like him, but @disatess is right.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    10/11/09

    @disatess: Have you done any research on the award whatsoever? Or are you just assuming you know all about it from its name? The award is not what you think.

    There have been entire years where no one was awarded. (Everyone apparently sucked in 1972). There have been years where people like Arafat won for what they attempting to do, and not what they did. Same for Kissinger.

    There have been American Presidents who've won the award in office after going to war. See Teddy Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson. There have even been years where the U.N. Peacekeeping forces, or just the U.N. have won.

    This is completely normal for the Nobel Peace Prize. The only reason it feels different to you is because you can't remember any other winners besides Al Gore & the Dali Lama, and assume someone needs Mother Teressa levels of awesome to win.

    I really wish people would do some fucking research before going off on this.
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    Image of antpwny antpwny
    10/11/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: Research is overrated, rage is the norm.
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    10/11/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: What, when there's ill-informed rants just waiting? Fie on your "research".

    Arafat was a terrorist and Kissinger a war criminal.
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    Image of wanion wanion
    10/11/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: What? Kissinger was totally hot in Batman...wait, I was thinking of Basinger. Sorry. And she wasn't all that hot, I was thinking of Pfeifer all along.
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    Image of Tracy Ham and Eggs Tracy Ham and Eggs
    10/11/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: So you are saying it was awarded based on merit and not because of his image? I think someone can make a valid argument that this was awarded (much like Carter's) as more of a repudiation of Bush then anything Obama did.

    And by the way, you pompous ass, TR got his for working to resolve a war and Wilson for founding the league of nations. So maybe you should do some research yourself.

    So get off you high fucking horse and admit that people can have a different opinion then you about something without being uninformed morons.

    (I also don't think Gore should have won, as he is just the highly paid mouthpiece for people who are doing real work)
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    10/11/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: yes ,I have ... I don`t think he deserves it , Also Carter got it too ,but he really did something , look it up genius .
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    10/11/09

    @disatess: carter got Egypt and Israel to end their conflict and peace talks .
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    10/11/09

    @disatess: LOUD NOISES! ANGER! ON A POST THAT IS ONLY TANGENTIALLY ABOUT OBAMA!
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    10/11/09

    @disatess: If I didn't know any better, I'd think you'd be surprised that the Oscar's aren't necessarily awarded because of merit either...
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment The_Sporean_Bob was starred The_Sporean_Bob was unstarred
    Image of DireWombat DireWombat
    10/11/09

    @WaR_HaWk: Please don't take this as mockery, but I can't help pointing out how much I love the cognitive dissonance of hearing an opinion on the Nobel Peace Prize from someone named WaR_HaWk.
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    10/11/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: Cracks me up, they awarded Arafat the award THE VERY SAME YEAR HE FUNDED HIS OWN INTERNAL TERRORISTS.

    Just shows how retarded the swiss are. Give the peace award to someone that doesn't even PRODUCE PEACE.
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    10/11/09

    @Cicada: I think there more deserving people than him ,and Yes I voted for him .
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    10/11/09

    @Cicada: this has been most fun with you all , I have right to my opinion just like all of you do , but are goverment made him out just a figure head and I know the man is far capable of doing more .
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    10/11/09

    @croush1211: no anger behind it , i love hearding the opinions of others .
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    10/11/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Thank you very much .
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    10/11/09

    @screemname: I think you'll find that's the Norwegians.

    But thanks for playing.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/12/09

    @disatess: Meh.

    The Peace Prize has been idiotic in conception and execution from the beginning.
    -Kle.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/12/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: so true .
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    Image of Adam Grant Adam Grant
    10/11/09

    In reply to Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
    The NIH funds some absolutely amazing research, and I hope with continued Obama support they'll be able to start in on things that just were not possible during the Bush years.

    Bring on the stem cell research in full!
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    09/11/09

    In reply to 50 Millionth Unique Chemical Added to Registry of Known Substances
    21-glowstick salute!

    #@!
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment SpammerOvTheGods was starred SpammerOvTheGods was unstarred
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    09/11/09

    In reply to 50 Millionth Unique Chemical Added to Registry of Known Substances
    Party time?
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    Image of VoxExMachina VoxExMachina
    09/11/09

    In reply to 50 Millionth Unique Chemical Added to Registry of Known Substances
    Oh, Annalee, that's ridiculous. You know that the world's supply of wasponium was decimated in the Great Aphid Invasion of '26.

    A giant beetle, on the other hand...
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    09/11/09

    @VoxExMachina: Actually, the substance that will turn you into a wasp is naturally occuring in the royal jelly of the queen wasp, as long as its properly diluted and intravenously injected.

    Of course, the only known human test subject was female, so the results are considered apocryphal by the scientific community at large- similar to the reported effectiveness of monkey glands, according to some.

    [/obscure bad movie trivia]
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    08/28/09

    In reply to Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth
    Broccoli is killing our Earth.
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    Image of rehabber rehabber
    08/28/09

    In reply to Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth
    Just give it a few weeks and something else will come along to KILL the planet. I am 71 and played with mercury when I was a kid and it did not hurt me, me, me... Heck we rolled it around in our hands and put on rings to wear. What a joke.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    08/28/09

    @rehabber: When I was a kid, we ate plutonium and I'm totally fine today! Why people worry about nuclear waste I'll never know.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/29/09

    @Annalee Newitz:

    Oh, fine - you rich kids got Plutonium every day, while we had to walk ten miles, just to get a scrap of depleted Uranium for dinner...
    -Kle.
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    Image of InsertBullets InsertBullets
    08/28/09

    In reply to Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth
    Does that make Vin Diesel the world's worst enviromental criminal?
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/28/09

    In reply to Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth
    "Sure whipits are fun, but now nitrous is destroying a lot more than your brain cells."

    More accurately, it always has been, but now someone is pointing it out.

    " A study published today in Science proves it is the leading cause of ozone layer destruction in the twenty-first century."

    That would be because we have reduced the levels of the former leading causes to the point where NO is now prominent.

    There will always be a leading cause; it would be more useful to talk about the magnitude of the effect than about what is the biggest effector.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    08/28/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: I hate that. They always talk about "The most dangerous car on the road" or "the fourth leading cause of death among teenagers." Just because something is most common, doesn't mean it is common.
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    08/29/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:

    A major problem in medicine, too - just because something doubles your risk of (cancer, heart disease, whatever) doesn't necessarily mean it's a big deal. It might be doubling it from infinitesimal to... infinitesimal.
    -Kle.
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    08/30/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: When I was in middle school, I figured the 4th leading cause of death among teenagers was masturbation.
    And I did my frantic best to make it #3.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    08/27/09

    In reply to Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth

    Needs more Devo
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/27/09

    In reply to Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth
    "So now you know. Every hit you take on that nitrous cracker is killing the Earth."

    So I guess going green would consist of . . . starting to shoot up heroin instead?
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